Introduction 1 Early Theory 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Humanism 1.2 Rhetoric (or, the Quarrel Between Rhetoric and Philosophy) 1.3 Hermeneutics 1.4 Aestheticism 1.5 New Criticism 2 Structuralism and Semiotics 2.0 Introduction 2.

1 Structure of the Sign (or, Saussure and Peirce) 2.2 Russian formalism 2.3 Roland Barthes 2.4 Claude Lévi-Strauss 2.5 Narratology 3 Marxism 3.0 Introduction 3.1 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 3.2 The Adorno-Benjamin Debate 3.

3 Mikhail Bakhtin 3.4 Louis Althusser 3.5 Fredric Jameson 4 Psychoanalytic Theory 4.0 Introduction 4.1 Sigmund Freud 4.2 Jacques Lacan 4.3 Harold Bloom 4.4 Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze 4.

5 Slavoj zizek 5 Poststructuralism 5.0 Introduction 5.1 Jacques Derrida 5.2 Julia Kristeva 5.3 Jean-François Lyotard 5.4 Jean Baudrillard 5.5 New Historicism 6 Feminist Theory 6.0 Introduction 6.

1 First Wave 6.2 Second Wave 6.3 Third Wave and Beyond 6.4 Hélène Cixous 6.5 Luce Irigaray 7 LGBTQ+ Theory 7.0 Introduction 7.1 Lesbian and Gay Theory 7.2 Lesbian Feminism 7.

3 Judith Butler 7.4 Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 7.5 Trans* Theory 8 Race and Justice 8.0 Introduction 8.1 Critical Race Theory 8.2 Law and Literature 8.3 Human Rights 8.4 Intersectionality 8.

5 Subaltern Studies 9 Biopolitics 9.0 Introduction 9.1 Michel Foucault 9.2 Giorgio Agamben 9.3 Michael Hart and Antonio Negri 9.4 Surveillance Studies 9.5 Disability Studies 10 Globalization 10.0 Introduction 10.

1 Postcolonial Theory 10.2 Border Studies 10.3 Neoliberalism 10.4 Translation 10.5 World Literature and Theory 11 Ecocriticism 11.0 Introduction 11.1 Green Theory 11.2 Critical Climate Change 11.

3 Anthropocene 11.4 Geocriticism 11.5 Blue Humanities 12 Posthumanism 12.0 Introduction 12.1 Cyborg Theory 12.2 Animal Studies 12.3 Systems Theory 12.4 Cognitive Criticism 12.

5 Speculative Realism 13 Affect Studies 13.0 Introduction 13.1 Queer Affect 13.2 Materialism 13.3 Presentism 13.4 Trauma Theory 13.5 Holocaust Studies 14 Pop Culture 14.0 Introduction 14.

1 Cultural Studies 14.2 Media Studies 14.3 Sound Studies 14.4 Game Studies 14.5 Celebrity Studies 15 Against Theory 15.0 Introduction 15.1 Antitheory 15.2 Posttheory 15.

3 Object-Oriented Ontology 15.4 Postcritique 15.5 New New Criticism Notes Index.