1. New Criticism - John Crowe Ransom
2. Structuralism - Ferdinand de Saussure
3. Post-Structuralism - Jacques Derrida
4. Deconstruction - Jacques Derrida
5. Reader-Response Theory - Louise Rosenblatt
6. Formalism - Viktor Shklovsky
7. Russian Formalism - Roman Jakobson
8. Psychoanalytic Criticism - Sigmund Freud
9. Archetypal Criticism - Carl Jung
10. Mythological Criticism - Northrop Frye
11. Marxist Criticism - Karl Marx
12. Feminist Criticism - Virginia Woolf
13. Gender Studies - Judith Butler
14. Queer Theory - Judith Butler
15. Cultural Criticism - Raymond Williams
16. Postcolonialism - Edward Said
17. Ecocriticism - Raymond Williams
18. Historical Criticism - Hippolyte Taine
19. Biographical Criticism - Samuel Johnson
20. Narratology - Gérard Genette
21. Aestheticism - Walter Pater
22. Decadent Movement - Arthur Symons
23. Reader-Response Criticism - Wolfgang Iser
24. Postmodernism - Jean-François Lyotard
25. Transcendentalism - Ralph Waldo Emerson
26. Pragmatism - William James
27. Existentialism - Jean-Paul Sartre
28. Absurdist Literature - Albert Camus
29. Expressionism - August Strindberg
30. Surrealism - André Breton
31. Stream of Consciousness - William James
32. Modernism - Ezra Pound
33. Imagism - Ezra Pound
34. The New Negro Movement - Alain Locke
35. Harlem Renaissance - Langston Hughes
36. Minimalism - Raymond Carver
37. Theatre of the Absurd - Samuel Beckett
38. Marxist Feminism - Juliet Mitchell
39. Postcolonial Feminism - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
40. Postmodern Feminism - Judith Butler
41. Ecofeminism - Carolyn Merchant
42. Posthumanism - Donna Haraway
43. Dialogism - Mikhail Bakhtin
44. Genre Theory - Northrop Frye
45. Reception Theory - Hans-Robert Jauss
46. Affective Fallacy - W. K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley
47. Intentional Fallacy - W. K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley
48. Paratext - Gérard Genette
49. Hermeneutics - Friedrich Schleiermacher
50. Bildungsroman - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
51. Dystopian Literature - George Orwell
52. Utopian Literature - Thomas More
53. Dialogic Imagination - Mikhail Bakhtin
54. Nihilism - Friedrich Nietzsche
55. The Uncanny - Sigmund Freud
56. Magic Realism - Franz Roh
57. Doppelgänger - E.T.A. Hoffmann
58. Post-Postmodernism - David Foster Wallace
59. Postcolonial Criticism - Homi K. Bhabha
60. Semiotics - Ferdinand de Saussure
61. Cognitive Narratology - David Herman
62. Trauma Theory - Cathy Caruth
63. Epic Theatre - Bertolt Brecht
64. Southern Gothic - William Faulkner
65. Picaresque Novel - Anonymous
66. Historical Novel - Walter Scott
67. Neoclassicism - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
68. Romanticism - William Wordsworth
69. Realism - Gustave Flaubert
70. Naturalism - Émile Zola
71. Afrofuturism - Mark Dery
72. Chicano Literature - Rudolfo Anaya
73. Cosmic Horror - H.P. Lovecraft
74. Golden Age of Detective Fiction - Agatha Christie
75. Colonial Literature - Joseph Conrad
76. Cubism - Gertrude Stein
77. Dadaism - Hugo Ball
78. Epistolary Novel - Samuel Richardson
79. Structural Marxism – Louis Althusser
80. Hegemony Theory – Antonio Gramsci
81. New Historicism – Stephen Greenblatt
82. Black Feminist Criticism – Bell hooks
83. Critical Race Theory РKimberl̩ Crenshaw
84. Orientalism – Edward Said
85. Negritude РAim̩ C̩saire
86. Hyperreality & Simulacra – Jean Baudrillard
87. Symbolism – Charles Baudelaire
88. Cyberpunk – William Gibson
89. Gothic Fiction – Horace Walpole
90. Tragedy Theory – Aristotle
91. The Grotesque – Mikhail Bakhtin
92. Psychogeography – Guy Debord
93. The Fantastic in Literature – Tzvetan Todorov
94. Hypertext Theory – George P. Landow
95. Digital Humanities – Franco Moretti
96. Postdramatic Theatre – Hans-Thies Lehmann
97. Ethnic Studies & Literature – Henry Louis Gates Jr.
98. Metafiction – John Barth
99. Existentialist Theatre – Jean Genet
100. Intertextuality – Julia Kristeva
This list covers a broad spectrum of literary theories and movements, ensuring diversity in perspectives.
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