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Intro to Literary Theory
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Intro to Literary Theory
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246 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Intro to Literary Theory exam
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Abolitionist literature
Activist poetics
Actual reader
Adaptation theory
Aesthetic autonomy
Affect theory
Affective response
African Literature
Anti-war novels
Arbitrary Nature of the Sign
Arbitrary signs
Archetypal approach
Archetypal Hero
Art as technique
Autobiographical theory
Autoethnography
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Bioregionalism
Black feminist thought
Book banning
Book history
Boris Eichenbaum
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Can the subaltern speak?
Canon formation
Castration Anxiety
Character motivation
Charles Sanders Peirce
Cheryll Glotfelty
Chronotope
Class affiliation
Class conflict
Class consciousness
Class relations
Class struggle
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Cleanth Brooks
Cli-fi
Climate fiction
Cognitive literary studies
Cold war paranoia
Colonial authority
Commodity fetishism
Comparative Literature
Contextual Reading
Counter-narratives
Cultural alienation
Cultural Criticism
Cultural Critique
Cultural Hegemony
Cultural industry
Cultural Production
Cultural studies
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Dark ecology
Defamiliarization
Digital archives
Distant reading
Dominant
Dominant ideology
Dream interpretation
Dream symbolism
Dystopian fiction
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Eco-feminism
Eco-fiction
Ecocritical Perspectives
Ecofeminism
Ecological metaphor
Environmental Aesthetics
Environmental Narrative
Epistemology of the closet
Erasure
Erlebnis
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Exotic other
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Female literary tradition
Feminist poetry
Feminist postmodernism
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