Cathy Caruth - The Wound and the Voice: Analysis Cathy Caruth – “The Wound and the Voice” From Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History (1996) 1. Traum…

Here’s a detailed summary of Cleanth Brooks’s essay "The Formalist Critics" from  Literary Theory: An Anthology (Third Edition), edited by Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan.   …

Here are 10 MCQs on Cultural Studies with short explanations. DAILY DOSE #4 1. What is the primary focus of cultural studies? a) High culture b) Popular culture c) Power dynamics and…

100 Major Literary Theories, Movements, and Their Key Proponents 1. New Criticism - John Crowe Ransom 2. Structuralism - Ferdinand de Saussure 3. Post-Structuralism - Jacques Derrida…

The term Counterculture was popularized by American historian and social theorist Theodore Roszak in his influential 1969 book The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic …

The term Bricolage was first coined by the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss in his seminal work, The Savage Mind ( La Pensée Sauvage , 1962). Lévi-Strauss used it to describe a way o…

Canonization  refers to the process by which certain works, individuals, or ideas are officially recognized as being of the highest importance or value within a particular domain. The term is us…

Cultural capital , a concept developed by French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, refers to the non-financial social assets that promote social mobility beyond economic means. It encompasses knowled…

What Is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments? Matthew G. Kirschenbaum: Explanation  Digital humanities, also known as humanities computing, is an academic fi…

Rhizomes, Resistance, and Reordering: Understanding Deleuze and Guattari's Vision of a Fluid World In the introduction to their book A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Gilles…