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Puspa Damai is Professor of English at Marshall University, WV, USA.

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This volume introduces major critical and literary theories to undergraduate and postgraduate students. It is an essential companion for students, researchers and instructors seeking a thorough and accessible guide to contemporary literary and cultural theory.

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List of Contributors

Introduction

PUSPA DAMAI

1 Russian Formalism

SUBHAYU BHATTACHARJEE

2 Structuralism

PUSPA DAMAI

3 Marxist Literary Theory

JOHN K. YOUNG

4 Psychoanalysis

RYAN WANDER

5 Reader Response Theory

UBARAJ KATAWAL

6 Post-structuralism

RABINDRA CHAULAGAIN

7 Feminist Literary Theory

DANIEL LEWIS

8 Queer Theory

MARGARET SULLIVAN

9 Cultural Studies

JESSE CARLSON

10 Race and Ethnic Studies

DEBORAH THURMAN

11 Postcolonial Studies

PRAMOD K. MISHRA

12 Dalit Studies

JYOTI BISWAS

13 New Historicism

AMANDA KELLOGG

14 Ecocriticism

TIMOTHY J. BURBERY

15 Trauma Theory

DYLAN LACKEY

16 Memory Studies

INAYAT ULLAH

17 Film Theory

WALTER SQUIRE

18 Affect Theory

LIBE GARCÍA ZARRANZ AND STELLA MILILLI

19 Disability Theory

AYUSHI JAISWAL AND SUJIT SINGH

20 Animal Studies

SCOTT MCDANIEL

21 The Anthropocene

PAYEL PAL

22 Glitch Theory

KRISTEN LILLVIS

23 Digital Humanities

ELISE TAKEHANA

Index