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African American Literary Theory: A Reader
American Literary Critics and Scholars, 1800-1850
American Literary Critics and Scholars, 1850-1880
American Literary Critics and Scholars, 1880-1900
American literary realism, critical theory, and intellectual prestige, 1880-1995
At War With the Word: Literary Theory and Liberal Education
Beyond Literary Theory: Literature as a Search for the Meaning of Human Destiny
The Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory
C.G. Jung and Literary Theory: The Challenge From Fiction
Classical rhetorics and rhetoricians : critical studies and sources
Contemporary Critical Theory: A Selective Bibliography
Contemporary Feminist Theories
Conversations: Contemporary Critical Theory and the Teaching of Literature
Critical keywords in literary and cultural theory
Critical Questions: Invention, Creativity, and the Criticism of Discourse and Media
Critical reading and writing : an Introductory Coursebook
Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction
Critical Theory and African Literature Today
Critical Theory and Educational Research
Critical Theory and Practice: A Coursebook
Critical Theory and the English Teacher
Critical Theory and the Teaching of Literature
Critical Theory, Marxism and Modernity
Critical Theory: Selected Essays
A Critic's Journey: Literary Reflections, 1958-1998
Critique, Action and Liberation
Cultural Studies and the New Humanities: Concepts and Controversies
Dead Artists, Live Theories and Other Cultural Problems
Deconstruction and Critical Theory
A Dictionary of Critical Theory
A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory
A Dictionary of Literary and Thematic Terms
Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
Doing Things with Texts: Essays in Criticism and Critical Theory
The Discipline of English: A Guide to Critical Theory and Practice
The Emperor Redressed: Critiquing Critical Theory
Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory
The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory
A Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory
A Glossary of Literary Terms and a Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
A Guide to Literary Criticism and Research
The Idea of the Vernacular: An Anthology of Middle English Literary Theory,
Ideals and Illusions: On Reconstruction and Deconstruction in Contemporary Critical Theory
An Introduction to Bibliographical and Textual Studies
An Introduction to Research in English Literary History
An Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures
James Joyce and Critical Theory: An Introduction
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
Key Concepts in Literary Theory
The Language of Drama: Critical Theory and Practice
Learning for a Diverse World: Using Critical Theory to Read and Write about Literature
The Literary Text in the Digital Age
Literary Theory and Criticism: An Oxford Guide
Literary Theory and the Claims of History: Postmodernism, Objectivity, Multicultural Politics
Literary Theory From Plato to Barthes: An Introductory History
Literary theory : a guide for the perplexed
Literary Theory: A Reintroduction
Literature in English: A Guide for Librarians in the Digital Age
Modern Critical Theory and Classical Literature
Modern Literary Theory: A Reader
Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word
Philosophical Approaches to the Study of Literature
The Philosophy of Modern Literary Theory
Postmodern Literary Theory: An Introduction
Post-theory: New Directions in Criticism
A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory
Readings: Acts of Close Reading in Literary Theory
Reception Study: From Literary Theory to Cultural Studies
Renaissance Drama and Contemporary Literary Theory
A Research Guide for Undergraduate Students: English and American Literature
The Scholar-critic: An Introduction to Literary Research
Straight with a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality
The Theory Mess: Deconstruction in Eclipse
Theory of the Novel: A Historical Approach
Twentieth Century Literary Theory: A Reader
Understanding Contemporary American Literary Theory
The Use of Manuscripts in Literary Research: Problems of Access and Literary Property Rights
What's Left of Theory? New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory
What's Wrong with Postmodernism: Critical Theory and the Ends of Philosophy
