Post World War Literary Theories

1. Platonic Idealism
2. African-American Literary Theory
3. Amerian Pragmatism
4. Cognative Literary Theory
5. Cambridge Criticism
6. Critical Race Theory
7. Culture Study
8. Darwinian Literary Studies
9. Deconstruction
10. Descriptive Poetics
11. Feminist Literary Criticism
12. Eco-Criticism
13. Formalism
14. German Hermeneutics and Philology
15. Marxism
16. Narratology
17. New-Criticism – John Crowe Ransom, Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren, William Wimsatt,
18. Monroe Breadsley, R.P Blackmur, I.A Richards.
19. Postcolonialism
20. Postmodernism
21. Poststructuralism
22. Psychoanalysis
23. Queer Theory
24. Reader-response
25. Dadaism
26. Surrealism
27. Existentialism
28. Realism
29. Russian Formalism
30. French Formalism
31. Structuralism and Semiotics/Semiotic literary criticism
32. Strange King Theory
33. Ubermensh(God is dead) – 1883
34. Third Space theory
35. Contact Zone Theory
36. XR theory
37. Media Theory
38. Simulacra Simulation Theory
39. Stand Point Theory
40. Speech Act Theory – J.I Austin (Sphota-Sidhan Theory)
41. Tabula Rasa – John Lock
42. Mill’s theory
43. Harm Principles in ethics
44. Comfort Zone Theory
45. Plato’s Cave Theory
46. Us-other
47. Empiricism
48. Alter Ego
49. Fertality Right
50. Homosexuality
51. Women Studies: Femicide, Feminism in India and UK, Feminist Economics, Feminist Movements
52. and Idiologies, Feminist Psychology, Feminist Science Fiction, Feminist Views on Pornography,
53. Feminist Views on Sexuality, Feminization of Poverty, Feminist Views on Language, New Woman,
54. Ecriture Feminine
55. Social Judgement theory