Critical Theory |
Warning! The ideas on this page can be quite complex and you do not need to include them in your essays or orals in order to do well. However, if you feel confident with English and feel that you can understand and use these ideas then they can provide you with interesting new ways of looking at texts and some good ideas about what to say when commenting on them. |
Reading Against The Grain |
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What is Critical Theory? | Reading Practices | Resistant Readings |
Feminist Reading | Marxist Reading | Psychoanalytic Reading |
Some Key Ideas |
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Structuralism | Post Structuralism | Post Modernism |
The Death of the Author |
Other Theories |
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Queer Theory | Post Colonial Theory |