Michail Bachtin (1895–1975)

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1. Michail Bachtin

   Author of The Dialogic Imagination: Four essays by M.M. Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World, Speech Genres and Other Late Essays

2. Jacques Derrida

   Author of Of Grammatology, Dissemination, Limited Inc

3. Michel Foucault

   Author of Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: The Will to Knowledge (An Introduction), Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977

4. Roland Barthes

   Author of The Pleasure of the Text, Image-Music-Text, Sur Racine

5. Fredric Jameson

   Author of Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, The Political Unconscious, The Prison-House of Language

6. Walter Benjamin

   Author of Illuminations, The Arcades Project, Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings

7. Raymond Williams

   Author of Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, Marxism and Literature, The Country and the City

8. Paul de Man

   Author of Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism, Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust, The Resistance to Theory

9. Julia Kristeva

   Author of The Kristeva Reader, Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art, Hannah Arendt

10. Georg Lukács

    Author of History and Class Consciousness, The Theory of the Novel

11. Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Author of The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, The Differend: Phrases in Dispute

12. Gilles Deleuze

    Author of Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Cinema 1: Movement-Image, Foucault

13. Michel de Certeau

    Author of The Practice of Everyday Life, Heterologies: Discourse on the Other (Theory and History of Literature, Vol 17)

14. Terry Eagleton

    Author of Literary Theory: An Introduction, Ideology: An Introduction, Walter Benjamin or Towards a Revolutionary Criticism

15. Erich Auerbach

    Author of Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature

16. Hayden White

    Author of Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe, The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation, Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism

17. Kenneth Burke

    Author of A Rhetoric of Motives, A Grammar of Motives, The Philosophy of Literary Form

18. Gerard Genette

    Author of Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method, Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree (Stages)

19. Northrop Frye

    Author of Anatomy of Criticism

20. V. N. Volosinov

    Author of Marxism and the Philosophy of Language