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Schools of Literary Criticism

The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. [Duke Database] has entries for the following schools of literary criticism:

Aesthetics
African American Theory and Criticism  

Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement
1977 to 1990
1990 and After

African Theory and Criticism
American Theory and Criticism 

Nineteenth Century
1900 to 1970
1970 and After

Anthropological Theory and Criticism
Arabic Theory and Criticism
Archetypal Theory and Criticism
Art Theory
Australian Theory and Criticism
Biblical Theory and Criticism

Midrash and Medieval Commentary
Modern Criticism

Bloomsbury Group
British Theory and Criticism  

Early Eighteenth Century
Late Eighteenth Century
Romantic Period and Early Nineteenth Century
Mid- and Late Nineteenth Century
1900 and After

Cambridge Ritualists
Canadian Theory and Criticism

English
French

Caribbean Theory and Criticism
Chicago Critics
Chinese Theory and Criticism

Premodern Theories of Poetry
Premodern Theories of Fiction and Drama
Twentieth Century

Classical Theory and Criticism  

Greek
Rhetoric

Cultural Studies  

United Kingdom
United States
Australia

Deconstruction  

Derrida, de Man, and the Yale Critics
The 1980s and After

Discourse  

Discourse Analysis
Discourse Theory

Drama Theory
Ecocriticism
Ethics
Feminist Theory and Criticism  

From Movement Critique to Discourse Analysis
Anglo-American Feminisms
Poststructuralist Feminisms
Materialist Feminisms
1990 and After

Fiction Theory and Criticism  

Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century British
Nineteenth-Century British and American
Early Twentieth-Century British and American

Film Theory and Criticism  

Classic Topics and Later Developments
May 1968 and Beyond

Frankfurt School
French Theory and Criticism  

Seventeenth Century
Eighteenth Century
Nineteenth Century
Early Twentieth Century
1945 to 1968
1968 and After

Gay Theory and Criticism  

Gay Male
Lesbian
Queer Theory

Gender Theory and Criticism
Genetic Criticism
Geneva School
German Theory and Criticism  

Sturm und Drang/Weimar Classicism
Romanticism
Nineteenth Century
Twentieth Century to 1968
1968 and After

Globalization
Hermeneutics  

Nineteenth Century
Twentieth Century

Historical Theory and Criticism
History of Ideas
Hypertext Theory and Criticism
Indian Theory and Criticism
Irish Theory and Criticism
Italian Theory and Criticism

Romanticism
Twentieth Century

Japanese Theory and Criticism  

From the Eighth through the Twentieth Century
1990 and After

Latin American Theory and Criticism  

Origins to 1970
1970 and After

Law and Literature
Linguistics and Language
Marxist Theory and Criticism  

Classical Marxism
Structuralist Marxism
1989 and After

Medieval Theory and Criticism
Modernist Theory and Criticism
Moscow-Tartu School
Multiculturalism
Myth Theory and Criticism
Narratology
Native Theory and Criticism

United States
Canada

New Criticism
New Historicism
New Humanism
New York Intellectuals
Orality and Literacy
Performance Studies
Phenomenology
Philology
Postcolonial Cultural Studies

Origins to the 1980s
1990 and After

Postmodernism
Practical Criticism
Prague School Structuralism
Psychoanalytic Theory and Criticism  

Traditional Freudian Criticism
Reconceptualizing Freud
The Post-Lacanians

Race and Ethnicity
Reader-Response Theory and Criticism
Reception Theory
Renaissance Theory and Criticism
Rhetoric
Russian Formalism
Russian Theory and Criticism: Nineteenth Century
Said, Edward W.
Sainte-Beuveian
Semiotics
Spanish Theory and Criticism
Structuralism
Stylistics
Textual Criticism
Translation Theory
Visual Culture