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🧿Intro to Literary Theory
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468 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Intro to Literary Theory exam

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A

A Room of One's Own
A Sand County Almanac
Abolitionist literature
Aboriginal Australians
Aboriginal Groups
Access to natural resources
Activist poetics
Actual reader
Adaptation theory
Advocacy
Aesthetic autonomy
Affect theory
Affective response
African Literature
AI Dungeon
Alan Liu
Aldo Leopold
Animal Farm
Anti-colonial struggles
Anti-war novels
Anti-war sentiment
Applying Feminist Theory to Virginia Woolf
Arbitrary Nature of the Sign
Arbitrary signs
Archetypal approach
Archetypal Hero
Art as technique
Autobiographical theory
Autoethnography

B

Bell hooks
Biodiversity loss
Bioregionalism
Black feminist thought
Book banning
Book history
Boris Eichenbaum

C

Can the subaltern speak?
Canon formation
Carbon footprint
Caribbean Studies
Castration Anxiety
Censorship
Character motivation
Character relationships
Characterization
Charles Sanders Peirce
Charlotte Brontë
Cheryll Glotfelty
Chinua Achebe
Chronotope
Citizen Science
Civil rights movement
Civilizing mission
Class affiliation
Class and Environmental Justice
Class conflict
Class consciousness
Class relations
Class struggle
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Cleanth Brooks
Cli-fi
Climate fiction
Climate justice
Climate policies
Climate refugees
Coastal flooding
Cognitive literary studies
Cold War
Cold war paranoia
Colonial administration
Colonial authority
Commodity fetishism
Comparative Literature
Contextual Reading