Hanan Muzaffar

Postmodernism

The Beats Generation

The Great Depression

Jazz Age & Lost Generation

Southern Gothic

Harlem Renaissance

Modernism

Naturalism

10. Poetry and hermeneutics, critique and dissonant composition, freedom and situation

Ecocriticism

Postcolonialism

Feminism

Marxism

Psychoanalysis

Poststructuralism

Reader Response

Structuralism

Formalism

12. Poststructuralist deviations: Mimicry, resignifcation, contrapuntal reading, the subaltern, ...

11. From structuralism to poststructuralism: Text, power, minor literature, deconstruction

8. Decentering modernisms: Newness, tradition, culture and society

9. Twentieth-century North American criticismClose reading to interpretation, modernism to post …

7. Defamiliarization, alienation, dialogism and montage

6. Freud and psychoanalytic criticism: The self in fragments

5. Modernity, multiplicity and becoming

4. The Enlightenment and Romanticism: Reason and imagination

3. Medieval and Renaissance criticism: From mimesis to creation

1. Mimesis, Plato and the poet

2. Aristotle and tragedy: From Poetics to postcolonial tragedy

Postcolonial Criticism in Beginning Theory