Literary Theory

Literary theory is a systematic analytical discipline comprising conceptual frameworks and interpretive principles for understanding literary texts and the nature of literature.

7.9K

Publications

418.3K

Citations

8.4K

Authors

1.1K

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

406

Parents

Comparative LiteratureEnglishLiterary ArtsLiterature

Children

Aesthetic TheoryCanon FormationCultural MaterialismFeminist CriticismGenre TheoryMarxist CriticismNew HistoricismPoeticsPostcolonial TheoryPsychoanalytic Criticism

Publications

7.9K

Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities

Edward Proffitt, Stanley Fish · Journal of Aesthetic Education · 1983 · 3.6K citations

Humanities, Linguistics, Literature +16

Testimony: crises of witnessing in literature, psychoanalysis, and history

Choice Reviews Online · 1992 · 3.4K citations

Humanities, History, Literature +17

The Politics and Poetics of Transgression

Charles Tilly, Peter Stallybrass, Allon White · The American Historical Review · 1988 · 3.3K citations

Humanities, Literature, Philosophy +9

Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art

David William Foster, Julia Kristeva, Léon S. Roudiez et al. · Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature · 1981 · 3.1K citations

Humanities, Linguistics, Literature +12

The art of writing literature review: What do we know and what do we need to know?

Justin Paul, Alex Rialp · International Business Review · 2020 · 2.3K citations

Education, Literature, Literary Theory +8

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Authors

8.4K

TE
Terry Eagleton
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
19 publications · 5.1K citations
17
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WI
Wolfgang Iser
University of Konstanz, Germany
16 publications · 5.1K citations
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GH
Geoffrey H. Hartman
Yale University, United States
18 publications · 1.5K citations
15
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SF
Stanley Fish
Duke University, United States
13 publications · 5.5K citations
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LM
Louise M. Rosenblatt
New York University, United States
15 publications · 4.2K citations
13
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Institutions

1.1K

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Venues

Choice Reviews Online
CRO · 943 publications · 67.6K citations
113
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The Modern Language Review
318 publications · 18.3K citations
66
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Poetics Today
106 publications · 17.5K citations
53
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Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
127 publications · 14.8K citations
49
h-index
Comparative Literature
111 publications · 11.3K citations
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See also Literary Theory
Core Methods	Close Reading Literary Hermeneutics Argumentation Deconstruction Structural Narratology Annotation
Major Schools	Feminist Theory Queer Theory Postcolonial Studies Ecocriticism New Criticism Reader-response Criticism Computational Literary Studies
Key Concepts	Semiotics Close Reading Reader-response Criticism Hermeneutic Circle Intentional Fallacy Affective Fallacy Thematic Criticism Structural Narratology
Interpretive Debates	New Historicism New Criticism Feminist Literary Criticism Literary Hermeneutics Reader-response Theory Hermeneutic Circle Interpretive Communities Intentional Fallacy Deconstruction Reader Horizon
Historical Development	New Criticism Ideology Critique Digital Humanities