English Literature & Theory: Literary Theory & Criticism

Introduction to Literary Theory
Moral Criticism, Dramatic Construction
Formalism
Psychoanalytic Criticism
Marxist Criticism
Reader-Response Criticism (1960s-present)
Structuralism and Semiotics
Postmodern Criticism
New Historicism, Cultural Studies
Post-Colonial Criticism
Feminist Criticism
Gender Studies

Classical Studies
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2708
Literature in English
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=3
Literatures (Other Than English)
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2719
Literary Theory
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2718

Founded in 1974, it has been called “one of the best known and most influential journals in the world” (Chicago Tribune) and “academe’s most prestigious theory journal” (New York Times). This JSTOR version is fully-accessible from 5 years back. (Most recent past 5 years cost $4 an article to view.)

Each issue features articles in which contributors compare and analyze books on particular theoretical works and develop their own positions on the theses, methods, and theoretical implications of those works. This JSTOR version is fully-accessible from 5 years back. (Most recent past 5 years cost $4 an article to view.)

While its main focus has been on French literature and continental theory, the journal is known for its openness to original thinking in all the discourses that interact with literature, including philosophy, natural and social sciences, and the arts. Join the discerning readers of SubStance who enjoy crossing borders and challenging limits.

Emphasizing critique rather than criticism, the journal draws on the diverse and conflictual approaches of Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics, political economy, and hermeneutics to offer readings in society and its transformation.

University of Minnesota Press journal serves as forum for international and interdisciplinary explorations of intellectual controversies, trends, and issues in culture, theory, and politics. Emphasizing critique rather than criticism, the journal draws on the diverse and conflictual approaches of Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics, political economy, and hermeneutics to offer readings in society and its transformation.

Topics include the connections between logic and rhetoric, the philosophical aspects of argumentation (including argumentation in philosophy itself), philosophical views on the nature of rhetoric among historical figures and during historical periods, philosophical analyses of the relation to rhetoric of other areas of human culture and thought, and psychological and sociological studies of rhetoric with a strong philosophical emphasis.

The journal offers fresh, stimulating ideas in the aesthetics of literature, theory of criticism, philosophical interpretation of literature, and literary treatment of philosophy. Philosophy and Literature challenges the cant and pretensions of academic priesthoods through its assortment of lively, wide-ranging essays, notes, and reviews that are written in clear, jargon-free prose.

NLH has always resisted short-lived trends and subsuming ideologies. By delving into the theoretical bases of practical criticism, the journal reexamines the relations between past works and present critical and theoretical needs. A major international forum for scholarly interchange, NLH has brought into English many of today's foremost theorists whose works had never before been translated. Under Ralph Cohen's continuous editorship, NLH has become what he envisioned over thirty years ago: "a journal that is a challenge to the profession of letters." NLH has the unique distinction of receiving six awards from CELJ.