Covering over a century`s worth of debate, thinking and writing about literature, this is a unique guide to the lives and works of fifty theorists who have left an indelible mark on the way we all experience literary works.

Featuring theorists such as Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, Sigmund Freud and Edward Said, this accessible guide includes:

a glossary of terms
full cross-referencing for maximum ease of use
authoritative guides to further reading on and by each theorist.
An essential resource for all students of literature, Fifty Key Literary Theorists explores the gamut of critical debate, from the New Critics to the Deconstructionists, and from post-colonialism to post-Marxism and more.

Table of Contents
Preface Baker, Houston A., Jr. (1943 –) Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhailovich (1895 – 1975) Barthes, Roland (1915 – 1980) Baudrillard, Jean (1929 –) Benjamin, Walter (1892 – 1940) Bhabha, Homi (1949 –) Bloom, Harold (1930 –) Booth, Wayne C. (1921 –) Butler, Judith (1956 –) Cixous, Hélène (1937 –) de Beauvoir, Simone (1908 – 1986) Deleuze, Gilles (1925 – 1995) [and Guattari, Pierre Félix (1930 –)] de Man, Paul (1919 – 1983) Derrida, Jacques (1930 – 2004) Eagleton, Terry (1943 –) Empson, (Sir) William (1906 – 1984) Fanon, Frantz Omar (1925 – 1961) Felman, Shoshana (1942 –) Fish, Stanley (1938 –) Foucault, Michel (1920 – 1984) Freud, Sigmund (1856 – 1939) Frye, Northrop (1912 – 1991) Gadamer, Hans-Georg (1900 – 2003) Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (1950 –) Genette, Gérard (1930 –) Gilbert, Sandra Mortola (1936 –) [& Gubar, Susan David (1944 –)] Gilroy, Paul (1956 –) Greenblatt, Stephen (1943 –) Haraway, Donna (1944 –) Hartman, Geoffrey H. (1929 –) Hutcheon, Linda (1947 –) Irigaray, Luce (1934 –) Iser, Wolfgang (1926 –) Jakobsen, Roman Osipovisch (1896 – 1982) Jameson, Fredric R. (1934 –) Kermode, Frank (1919 –) Kristeva, Julia (1941 –) Lacan, Jacques Marie Emile (1901 – 1981) Leavis, Frank Raymond (1895 – 1978) Lukács, Georg (György) (1885-1971) Lyotard, Jean-François (1924 – 1998) McLuhan, Herbert Marshall (1911 – 1980) Propp, Vladimir Iakovlevich (1895 – 1970) Richards, Ivor Armstrong (1893 – 1979) Ricoeur, Paul (1913 –) Said, Edward W. (1935 –) Showalter, Elaine (1941 –) Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty (1941 –) Trilling, Lionel (1905 – 1975) ®i¾ek, Slavoj (1949 –) Index