Important Literary Terms and Theorists

 

Important Literary Terms and Theorists

Literary Term	Theorist/Person
Defamiliarization	Viktor Shklovsky
Dialogism	Mikhail Bakhtin
Heteroglossia	Mikhail Bakhtin
Chronotope	Mikhail Bakhtin
Polyphony	Mikhail Bakhtin
Discourse	Michel Foucault
Episteme	Michel Foucault
Power/Knowledge	Michel Foucault
Panopticism	Michel Foucault
Deconstruction	Jacques Derrida
Différance	Jacques Derrida
Binary Opposition	Ferdinand de Saussure
Signifier/Signified	Ferdinand de Saussure
Structuralism	Claude Lévi-Strauss
Mytheme	Claude Lévi-Strauss
Langue/Parole	Ferdinand de Saussure
Interpellation	Louis Althusser
Ideological State Apparatus	Louis Althusser
Cultural Capital	Pierre Bourdieu
Habitus	Pierre Bourdieu
Hegemony	Antonio Gramsci
Organic Intellectual	Antonio Gramsci
Aura	Walter Benjamin
Mechanical Reproduction	Walter Benjamin
Intentional Fallacy	W.K. Wimsatt & M.C. Beardsley
Affective Fallacy	W.K. Wimsatt & M.C. Beardsley
Objective Correlative	T.S. Eliot
Stream of Consciousness	William James
Oedipus Complex	Sigmund Freud
Unconscious	Sigmund Freud
Mirror Stage	Jacques Lacan
Imaginary/Symbolic/Real	Jacques Lacan
Gaze	Jacques Lacan
Ideology	Karl Marx
Base/Superstructure	Karl Marx
Commodity Fetishism	Karl Marx
Alienation	Karl Marx
Class Struggle	Karl Marx
Cultural Materialism	Raymond Williams
Historicism	Stephen Greenblatt
New Historicism	Stephen Greenblatt
Orientalism	Edward Said
Subaltern	Gayatri Spivak
Strategic Essentialism	Gayatri Spivak
Hybridity	Homi K. Bhabha
Third Space	Homi K. Bhabha
Mimicry	Homi