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…

Anton Chekov, life, works, achievements Image Credit: Wikipedia   Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born on January 29, 1860, in Taganrog, a small port town in southern Russia. His father, Pavel Chekh…