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New Criticism-John Crowe Ransom  \n2. Structuralism-Ferdinand de Saussure  \n3. Post-Structuralism-Jacques Derrida  \n4. Deconstruction-Jacques Derrida  \n5. Reader-Response Theory-Louise Rosenblatt  \n6. Formalism-Viktor Shklovsky  \n7. Russian Formalism-Roman Jakobson  \n8. Psychoanalytic Criticism-Sigmund Freud  \n9. Archetypal Criticism-Carl Jung  \n10. Mythological Criticism-Northrop Frye  \n11. Marxist Criticism-Karl Marx  \n12. Feminist Criticism-Virginia Woolf  \n13. Gender Studies-Judith Butler  \n14. Queer Theory-Judith Butler  \n15. Cultural Criticism-Raymond Williams  \n16. Postcolonialism-Edward Said  \n17. Ecocriticism-Raymond Williams  \n18. Historical Criticism-Hippolyte Taine  \n19. Biographical Criticism-Samuel Johnson  \n20. Narratology-Gérard Genette  \n21. Aestheticism-Walter Pater  \n22. Decadent Movement-Arthur Symons  \n23. Reader-Response Criticism-Wolfgang Iser  \n24. Postmodernism-Jean-François Lyotard  \n25. Transcendentalism-Ralph Waldo Emerson  \n26. Pragmatism-William James  \n27. Existentialism-Jean-Paul Sartre  \n28. Absurdist Literature-Albert Camus  \n29. Expressionism-August Strindberg  \n30. Surrealism-André Breton  \n31. Stream of Consciousness-William James  \n32. Modernism-Ezra Pound  \n33. Imagism-Ezra Pound  \n34. The New Negro Movement-Alain Locke  \n35. Harlem Renaissance-Langston Hughes  \n36. Minimalism-Raymond Carver  \n37. Theatre of the Absurd-Samuel Beckett  \n38. Marxist Feminism-Juliet Mitchell  \n39. Postcolonial Feminism-Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak  \n40. Postmodern Feminism-Judith Butler  \n41. Ecofeminism-Carolyn Merchant  \n42. Posthumanism-Donna Haraway  \n43. Dialogism-Mikhail Bakhtin  \n44. Genre Theory-Northrop Frye  \n45. Reception Theory-Hans-Robert Jauss  \n46. Affective Fallacy-W. K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley  \n47. Intentional Fallacy-W. K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley  \n48. Paratext-Gérard Genette  \n49. Hermeneutics-Friedrich Schleiermacher  \n50. Bildungsroman-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  \n51. Dystopian Literature-George Orwell  \n52. Utopian Literature-Thomas More  \n53. Dialogic Imagination-Mikhail Bakhtin  \n54. Nihilism-Friedrich Nietzsche  \n55. The Uncanny-Sigmund Freud  \n56. Magic Realism-Franz Roh  \n57. Doppelgänger-E.T.A. Hoffmann  \n58. Post-Postmodernism-David Foster Wallace  \n59. Postcolonial Criticism-Homi K. Bhabha  \n60. Semiotics-Ferdinand de Saussure  \n61. Cognitive Narratology-David Herman  \n62. Trauma Theory-Cathy Caruth  \n63. Epic Theatre-Bertolt Brecht  \n64. Southern Gothic-William Faulkner  \n65. Picaresque Novel-Anonymous  \n66. Historical Novel-Walter Scott  \n67. Neoclassicism-Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux  \n68. Romanticism-William Wordsworth  \n69. Realism-Gustave Flaubert  \n70. Naturalism- Émile Zola  \n71. Afrofuturism-Mark Dery  \n72. Chicano Literature-Rudolfo Anaya  \n73. Cosmic Horror-H.P. Lovecraft  \n74. Golden Age of Detective Fiction-Agatha Christie  \n75. Colonial Literature-Joseph Conrad  \n76. Cubism-Gertrude Stein  \n77. Dadaism-Hugo Ball  \n78. Epistolary Novel-Samuel Richardson  \n79. Fables-Aesop  \n80. Gothic Fiction-Horace Walpole  \n81. Hellenistic Poetry-Callimachus  \n82. Invisible Theatre-Augusto Boal  \n83. Jazz Poetry-Langston Hughes  \n84. Kitchen Sink Realism-John Osborne  \n85. Language Poetry-Charles Bernstein  \n86. Metaphysical Poetry-John Donne  \n87. Nouveau Roman-Alain Robbe-Grillet  \n88. Oulipo-Raymond Queneau  \n89. Pathetic Fallacy-John Ruskin  \n90. Quantum Fiction-Werner Heisenberg  \n91. Romantic Comedy-William Shakespeare  \n92. Southern Renaissance-William Faulkner  \n93. Terror Management Theory-Ernest Becker  \n94. Ulysses-James Joyce  \n95. Verse-Novel-George Meredith  \n96. Western Canon-Harold Bloom  \n97. Xenophobia in Literature-Chinua Achebe  \n98. Yarn-Eudora Welty  \n99. Zines-Thomas Pynchon  \n100. Zoomorphism-Ted Hughes  \n101. Psychological Realism-Sigmund Freud  \n102. Social Realism-George Lukács  \n103. Historical Materialism-Karl Marx  \n104. Materialist Feminism-Gayle Rubin  \n105. 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