Edward Said

Edward Said

male, deceased (2003)
postcolonial literature, Postcolonialism, postcolonial theory, Princeton University alumni, Academic, Arab American…Literary critic, Literarytheorist, Literary theory
Edward Wadie Saïd was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and outspoken Palestinian activist. He was University Professor of English and C...
Stanley Fish

Stanley Fish

male, 71 years old
anti-foundationalism, anti-foundationalim, anti-foundationalist, post-modernism, University of California, Berkeley, University Of Illinois At Chicago…Literary theory, Literarytheorist, Literary critic
Stanley Fish (born 1938) is a prominent American literary theorist and legal scholar. He was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island. He is...
Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes

male, deceased (1980)
French road accident victim, LGBT writer, From France, Pedestrian road accident victim, Literarytheorist, gay…Literary critic, Literary theory, Literary, social theorist
Roland Barthes (November 12, 1915 - March 25, 1980) (pronounced) was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and...
Kenneth Burke

Kenneth Burke

male, deceased (1993)
Rhetoric theorist, American, philosopher, Literary critic, philosophy, Rhetorician…Literarytheorist, Literary theory
Kenneth Burke (May 5 1897-November 19 1993) was a major American literary theorist and philosopher. Burke's primary interests were in rhetoric and...
Maurice Blanchot

Maurice Blanchot

male, deceased (2003)
writer, Continental philosopher, French, Transgressive artist, philosopher, Poststructuralism…Literarytheorist, Literary theory
Maurice Blanchot was a French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist.

Michael Hardt

male, 49 years old
Polyglot, Washington DC, Swarthmore College alumni, Literarytheorist, Literary theory, empire…Literary critic, Marxist theorist
Michael Hardt (born 1960) is an American literary theorist and political philosopher based at Duke University. Perhaps his most famous work is...

Jean-François Lyotard

male, deceased (1998)
buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Postmodernism, Rhetorician, philosopher, Social philosophy, deconstruction…Literarytheorist, Literary theory
Jean-François Lyotard (pronounced) was a French philosopher and literary theorist. He is well-known for his articulation of Postmodernism after t...
Geoffrey Hartman

Geoffrey Hartman

male, 80 years old
Jewish, Yale School of deconstruction, Deconstructionist, English, Literarytheorist, ashkenazi…Literary critic
Geoffrey H. Hartman (b. 1929) is a German born American literary theorist, sometimes identified with the Yale School of deconstruction, but also...

Gérard Genette

male, 79 years old
paratext, Narrative Discourse, Narrative Discourse An Essay in Method, BRICOLAGE, figure, Literary theory…Literarytheorist, Literary critic
Gérard Genette is a French literary theorist, associated in particular with the structuralist movement and such figures as Roland Barthes and C...

M. H. Abrams

male, 97 years old
Literarytheorist, writer, Meyer (Mike) Howard Abrams, from Long Branch, New Jersey, norton anthology of english literature, American…Literary critic
Meyer (Mike) Howard Abrams (born July 231912) is an American literary critic, known for works on Romanticism, in particular his book "The Mirror...