Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature

List of Entries

Volume I: Literary Theory from 1900 to 1966

1. A
2. B
3. C
4. D
5. E
6. F
7. G
8. H
9. I
10. J
11. K
12. L
13. M
14. N
15. O
16. P
17. Q
18. R
19. S
20. T
21. U
22. V
23. W
24. X
25. Y
26. Z

A

• Abrams, M. H.
• Actant/Actantial Grammar
• Adorno, Theodor
• Aestheticism
• Aesthetics
• Affective Fallacy
• Alienation
• Anglo-American New Criticism
• Archetypal Criticism
• Archetype
• Arnold, Matthew
• Auerbach, Erich
• Austin, J. L.

B

• Bakhtin, M. M.
• Barthes, Roland
• Base/Superstructure
• Bataille, Georges
• de Beauvoir, Simone
• Benjamin, Walter
• Blanchot, Maurice
• Booth, Wayne
• Brooks, Cleanth
• Burke, Kenneth

C

• Campbell, Joseph
• Carnival/Carnivalesque
• Chicago School Neo-Aristotelian Literary Theory
• Colonialism/Imperialism
• Commodity
• Constellation
• Crane, R. S.
• Critical Theory/Frankfurt School
• Croce, Benedetto

D

• Defamiliarization
• Determination
• Dialectics
• Dialogism and Heteroglossia
• Discourse

E

• Eliot, T. S.
• Empson, William
• Énoncé/Énonciation

F

• Fabula/Sjuzhet
• Fanon, Frantz
• Form
• Formalism
• Freud, Sigmund
• Frye, Northrop
• Functions (Linguistic)
• Functions (Narrative)

G

• Gadamer, Hans-Georg
• Genette, Gérard
• Genre Theory
• Gentile, Giovanni
• Gramsci, Antonio
• Greimas, A. J.

H

• Heidegger, Martin
• Hermeneutics
• Husserl, Edmund

I

• Imaginary/Symbolic/Real
• Implied Author/Reader
• Ingarden, Roman
• Intentional Fallacy
• Intentionality and Horizon
• Italian Neo-Idealist Aesthetics

J

• Jakobson, Roman
• Jung, C. G.

K

• Klein, Melanie

L

• Lacan, Jacques
• Leavis, F. R.
• Lévi-Strauss, Claude
• Lukács, Georg

M

• Marx, Karl
• Materialism
• Memmi, Albert
• Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
• Mimesis
• Modernism
• Modernist Aesthetics

N

• Narrative Theory
• Neo-Humanism
• Nietzsche, Friedrich

O

• Other/Alterity

P

• Pater, Walter
• Peirce, Charles Sanders
• Phenomenology
• Point of View/Focalization
• Poulet, Georges
• Pound, Ezra
• Propp, Vladimir
• Psychoanalysis (since 1966)

Q

• No Entries

R

• Reification
• Richards, I. A.

S

• Sartre, Jean-Paul
• Saussure, Ferdinand de
• Semiotics/Semiology
• Shklovsky, Viktor
• Speech Acts
• Structuralism

T

• Totality

U

• No Entries

V

• No Entries

W

• Wimsatt, William K. and Beardsley, Monroe C.
• Winnicott, D. W.
• Woolf, Virginia

X

• No Entries

Y

• No Entries

Z

• No Entries

Volume II: Literary Theory from 1966 to the Present

1. A
2. B
3. C
4. D
5. E
6. F
7. G
8. H
9. I
10. J
11. K
12. L
13. M
14. N
15. O
16. P
17. Q
18. R
19. S
20. T
21. U
22. V
23. W
24. X
25. Y
26. Z

A

• Aesthetic Theory
• African American Literary Theory
• Agamben, Giorgio
• Althusser, Louis
• American Indian Literary Criticism and Theory
• Appiah, Kwame Anthony
• Asian American Literary Theory
• Authorial Intention

B

• Badiou, Alain
• Bakhtinian Criticism
• Bal, Mieke
• Bhabha, Homi
• Bloom, Harold
• Body, The
• Braidotti, Rosi
• Butler, Judith

C

• Canons
• Caruth, Cathy
• Cixous, Hélène
• Cognitive Studies
• Core and Periphery

D

• Deconstruction
• Deleuze, Gilles
• Derrida, Jacques
• Disability Studies

E

• Eagleton, Terry
• Eco, Umberto
• Eco-Criticism
• Écriture Féminine
• Essentialism/Authenticity
• Ethical Criticism
• Evolutionary Studies

F

• Felman, Shoshana
• Feminism
• Fish, Stanley
• Foucault, Michel

G

• Gates, Henry Louis
• Gender Theory
• Genre
• Greenblatt, Stephen
• Grosz, Elizabeth

H

• Habermas, Jürgen
• Hybridity

I

• Ideology
• Intertextuality
• Irigaray, Luce
• Iser, Wolfgang

J

• Jameson, Fredric
• Johnson, Barbara

K

• Kermode, Frank
• Kristeva, Julia

L

• Laclau, Ernesto and Mouffe, Chantal
• Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe
• Latino/a Theory
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
• Levinas, Emmanuel
• Lyotard, Jean-Franҫois

M

• de Man, Paul
• Marxism
• Master Narrative
• McClintock, Anne
• Miller, J. Hillis
• Mimicry
• Mitchell, W. J. T.
• Modernity/Postmodernity
• Moretti, Franco

N

• Nancy, Jean-Luc
• Narratology and Structuralism
• Negri, Antonio and Hardt, Michael
• New Aestheticism
• New Critical Theory
• New Historicism
• Nomadism

O

• Orientalism

P

• Performativity
• Phallus/Phallocentrism
• Postcolonial Studies and Diaspora Studies
• Poststructuralism
• Presentism
• Psychoanalysis (since 1966)

Q

• Queer Theory

R

• Rancière, Jacques
• Reader-Response Studies
• Religious Studies and the
• Return of the Religious
• Ronell, Avital
• Rose, Jacqueline

S

• Said, Edward
• Scholes, Robert
• Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky
• Self-Referentiality
• Semiotics
• Showalter, Elaine
• Smith, Barbara H.
• Social Constructionism
• Specters
• Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty
• Stiegler, Bernard
• Subject Position
• Subversion

T

• Tel Quel
• Textual Studies
• Trauma and Memory Studies

U

• No Entries

V

• Virilio, Paul
• Vizenor, Gerald

W

• White, Hayden
• Wittig, Monique

X

• No Entries

Y

• Yale School
• Young, Robert

Z

• Žižek, Slavoj

Volume III: Cultural Theory

1. A
2. B
3. C
4. D
5. E
6. F
7. G
8. H
9. I
10. J
11. K
12. L
13. M
14. N
15. O
16. P
17. Q
18. R
19. S
20. T
21. U
22. V
23. W
24. X
25. Y
26. Z

A

• Ali, Tariq
• Anzaldúa, Gloria
• Appadurai, Arjun
• Audience Studies
• Auteur Theory

B

• Baker, Houston A., Jr.
• Baudrillard, Jean
• Bloch, Ernst
• Blogging
• Bordo, Susan
• Bordwell, David
• Bourdieu, Pierre

C

• Celebrity
• de Certeau, Michel
• Chomsky, Noam
• City, The
• Class
• Comics Theory
• Commodity/Commodification and Cultural Studies
• Communication and Media Studies
• Critical Discourse Analysis
• Cultural Anthropology
• Cultural Capital
• Cultural Geography
• Cultural Materialism
• Cultural Policy
• Cultural Studies
• Culture Industry
• Culture Wars
• Cyberspace Studies

D

• Debord, Guy
• Detective and Spy Fiction
• Diaspora
• Disability Studies and Cultural Studies
• Du Bois, W. E. B.

E

• No Entries

F

• Fairclough, Norman
• Fantasy
• Fashion Studies
• Film Genre
• Film Theory
• Fiske, John
• Frow, John

G

• Gaze, The
• Geertz, Clifford
• Gender and Cultural Studies
• Gilroy, Paul
• Globalization
• Grossberg, Lawrence

H

• Hall, Stuart
• Haraway, Donna
• Hartley, John
• Hebdige, Dick
• Hegemony
• Hoggart, Richard
• hooks, bell
• Horror

I

• Identity Politics

J

• James, C. L. R.

K

• Kittler, Friedrich
• Kracauer, Siegfried

L

• Latour, Bruno
• Lefebvre, Henri
• Lifestyles

M

• Macdonald, Dwight
• Marcuse, Herbert
• Mass Culture
• McLuhan, Marshall
• McRobbie, Angela
• Metz, Christian
• Modleski, Tania
• Mohanty, Chandra Talpade
• Morris, Meaghan
• Multiculturalism
• Mulvey, Laura

N

• Nandy, Ashis
• Newspapers and Magazines
• Novel, The

O

• Ohmann, Richard
• Oral History and Oral Culture

P

• Performativity and Cultural Studies
• Popular Music
• Posthumanism
• Postmodernism
• Postmodernism in Popular Culture
• Proletarian Literature

Q

• No Entries

R

• Radio Studies
• Realist Theory
• Romance
• Rorty, Richard
• Routinization and Rationalization

S

• Sahlins, Marshall
• Science Fiction
• Science Studies
• Silverman, Kaja
• Simmel, Georg
• Simulation/Simulacra
• Situationist International, The
• Sobchack, Vivian
• Sports Studies
• Structuralism, Poststructuralism, and Cultural Studies
• Subculture
• Suvin, Darko

T

• Technology and Popular Culture
• Television Studies
• Thompson, E. P.

U

• No Entries

V

• Visual Studies/Visual Culture/Visual Culture Studies

W

• Weber, Max
• West, Cornel
• Williams, Raymond

X

• No Entries

Y

• No Entries

Z

• No Entries