Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida

male, deceased (2004)
twentieth-century French philosophy, French philosophy, Rhetoric theorist, Sephardi Jew, deconstruction, Rhetorician…Psychoanalytic theory, Literary critic, Postmodern theory, Literarytheory
Jacques Derrida (July 15, 1930 - October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher, known as the founder of deconstruction. His voluminous...
Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes

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

Terry Eagleton

male, 66 years old
UK Socialist Workers Party member, British, Academic of the University of Manchester, cultural studies, Wadham College, Oxford, postmodernist…cultural theory, Culture theory, Literary Theory An Introduction, Literary critic, Literarytheory
Terry Eagleton (born 22 February, 1943 in Salford, Lancashire (now Greater Manchester), England) is a British literary critic.
Edward Said

Edward Said

male, deceased (2003)
postcolonial literature, Postcolonialism, postcolonial theory, Princeton University alumni, Academic, Arab American…Literary critic, Post-colonial theory, Literary theorist, Literarytheory
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…Literarytheory, Literary theorist, 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...
Paul de Man

Paul de Man

male, deceased (1983)
Irony theorist, Postmodernism, Johns Hopkins University, Continental philosopher, philosopher, Literary critic…literary criticism, Literarytheory
Paul de Man (December 6, 1919 - December 21, 1983) was a Belgian-born deconstructionist literary critic and theorist. He completed his Ph.D. at...
Fredric Jameson

Fredric Jameson

male, 75 years old
Duke University, theorist, comparative literature, Postmodernism, Literary critic, Duke University faculty…Literarytheory, literary criticism
Fredric Jameson (born April 14, 1934) is a literary critic and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for the analysis of contemporary...
Stephen Greenblatt

Stephen Greenblatt

male, 66 years old (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
new york times best seller list, Will in the World, Harvard University faculty, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, New Historicism, REPRESENTATIONS…Literarytheory, Literary critic
Stephen Jay Greenblatt (born November 7, 1943) is a literary critic, theorist and scholar. Greenblatt is regarded by many as one of the founders of...
Walter Benn Michaels

Walter Benn Michaels

male
Modernism, modernist literature, our america, American, cultural construction, The Shape of the Signifier…Norton Anthology of Literary Criticism, Literarytheory, Literary critic, Literary theorist
Walter Benn Michaels is a literary theorist, known as the author of "Our America: Nativism, Modernism and Pluralism" (1995) and "The Shape of the...
Pierre Bourdieu

Pierre Bourdieu

male, deceased (2002)
symbolic violence, Literarytheory, habitus, philosophy, field, Embodiment
Pierre Bourdieu was an acclaimed French sociologist whose work employed methods drawn from a wide range of disciplines: from philosophy and...