Over the years I’ve written many posts on literary and cultural theorists. This page brings them all together in what I like to think of as a rogues’ gallery of theorists and their theories.
General Theory
The Project of Identity (Sartrean Existentialism, Lacan and Zizek)
Roland Barthes
Julia Kristeva
Jacques Lacan
Adventures Through the Looking Glass
Michel Foucault
Jacques Derrida
Sigmund Freud
Trust (with Neville Symington)
Jean Baudrillard
Georges Bataille
Slavoj Žižek
F. R. Leavis
Feminism
My Thoughts on the Gender Debate
Women’s Writing; Some Issues, Old and New
Existentialism
Psychoanalysis
Postmodernism
Tales from the Reading Room 
Oh fantastic, what a treasure trove. Thank you so much for putting these up. Now all I have to do is to read them all! 🙂 P x
Hi could you possibly do a summary of Bakhtin’s Carnivalesque concept, I’ve found your gallery of Theorists very useful in understanding many literary theories and would love for you to write one on him!
I wish I could! I don’t know very much about Carnivalesque, I regret to say. But if it should come up in a book I’m reading, I will definitely write something with you in mind!
Oh, gosh, this is marvellous! – it’s like a roll call of the entire third year of my first degree. I’m going to have to go back and read all my old course books now!
I’m so glad you like it! Thank you!
What do you think about Nothrop Frye?
I have to confess I’ve read hardly anything by him! Give me a good recommendation – I’d like to know more.