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Critical Theory Cheat Sheet (Abridged)
Donald E. Hall. Literary and Cultural Theory: From Basic Principles to Advanced Applications. Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
|Theory |Key Ideas |Theorists |Comments |
|New Criticism |-rejected literature’s historical and biographical contexts |-Aristotle (The Poetics) | |
|1920’s forward |-intrinsic meaning of texts; literature expresses “universal truths” |-Plato (The Republic) | |
| |-critic’s task to explore precisely through language and form how that truth |-John Crowe Ransom | |
| |is expressed |-Cleanth Brooks | |
| |-“Close reading”; that might not be specifically about what the text is |-T.S. Eliot | |
| |‘saying’ at all. | | |
|Marxist/Materialist Analysis |-based on Marx’s theories of class and cultural production |-Terry Eagleton | |
| |-importance of class and economic conditions; power relationships and class |-Karl Marx | |
| |ideologies presented within a text |-Frederich Engles | |
|Structuralism |-principles of scientific linguistic study applied to literature |-Ferdinand de Saussure | |
| |-making meaning through binaries (oppositions) |(linguistics) | |
| |-the structure of the text and the language that creates the structure is |-Claude Levi-Strauss (anthropology)| |
| |paramount |-Romon Jakobsen (linguistics) | |
| | |-Jonathan Culler | |
| | |-Roland Barthes | |
| | |-Umberto Eco (The Name of the Rose)| |
| | |-Robert Scholes | |
|Deconstruction |-calls into question all assumptions of comprehension and comprehensiveness; |-Jacques Derrida | |
| |meaning never certain, always “deferred.” |-Michael Foucault | |
| |-the power deployed and social relationships organized through discourse |-Jonathan Culler | |
| |-nothing is ever certain | | |
| |-texts themselves are unstable | | |
|Feminist Analysis |-focuses on gender (the social roles performed by the sexes) |-Julia Kristeva | |
| |-draws upon and influences every other critical theory |-Hekene Cixous | |
| |-recognition of different degrees of social power granted to and exercised by|-Luce Irigaray | |
| |women and men |-bell hooks (race and gender) | |
| |-explores complex ways women have been denied social power and the right to |Toril Moi | |
| |free expression |Elaine Showalter | |
| |-women resist and are subversive to patriarchal power | | |
|Gender/Queer Analysis |-encompasses many different methodologies (post-structuralism, gender, race, |-Henry Abelove | |
| |class, psychology) |-Margaret Cruikshank | |
| |-issues of “normality” are appropriate subjects for critique and |-Michael Foucault | |
| |investigation |-Eve Sedgwick | |
What are theoretical approaches in social work? What are the models of social work? Task-Centered Practice (TCP) Sometimes referred to as one of social work's original “evidence-based” practice models, TCP has been around for nearly 40 years. Narrative Approach. Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Becoming a Social Worker.
