In this survey of theories that have shaped the reading of literature and the analysis of culture, emphasis is on key concepts–language, identity, subjectivity, gender, power, and knowledge–and on key figures and schools such as Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, Saussure, Barthes, Gramsci, Benjamin, Althusser, Foucault, Lacan, Deleuze, Jameson, Berlant, Moten, postmodernism, and U.S. feminism.
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