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🧿Intro to Literary Theory
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393 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
Applying Feminist Theory to Virginia Woolf
Arbitrary Nature of the Sign
Arbitrary signs
Archetypal approach
Archetypal Hero
Art as technique
Autobiographical theory
Autoethnography

B

Bioregionalism
Black feminist thought
Book banning
Book history
Boris Eichenbaum

C

Can the subaltern speak?
Canon formation
Caribbean Studies
Castration Anxiety
Character motivation
Charles Sanders Peirce
Charlotte Brontë
Cheryll Glotfelty
Chinua Achebe
Chronotope
Class affiliation
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 paranoia
Colonial authority
Commodity fetishism
Comparative Literature
Contextual Reading
Counter-narratives
Cultural alienation
Cultural background
Cultural Criticism
Cultural Critique
Cultural Factors
Cultural Hegemony
Cultural industry
Cultural preservation
Cultural Production
Cultural Renaissance
Cultural studies

D

Dalit communities