Literary theory: the basics

Reading for meaning: practical criticism and new criticism

Reading for form I: Formalism and early structuralism, 1914-60

Reading for form II: French structuralism, 1950-75

Political reading: the 1970s and 1980s

The postructuralist revolution: Derrida, deconstruction, and postmodernism

Poststructuralism continued: Foucault, Lacan, and French feminism

Literature and culture: the new historicism and cultural materialism

Postcolonial criticism and theory

Sexuality, literature, and culture

Ecocriticism

Conclusion.