<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fc6207f9-be72-4540-adb3-f943b5b300a5/36094C80-9319-4C15-B622-E9B38F2854A1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.kristisiegel.com/theory.htm" href="http://www.kristisiegel.com/theory.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.kristisiegel.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kristisiegel.com/theory.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.kristisiegel.com/img/1087966F-8904-460A-B706-B09F29928196" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kristisiegel.com/theory.htm"><STRONG>Literary Trends and Influences*</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kristisiegel.com/theory.htm">Disclaimer: When theories are explained briefly, a necessary reduction in their complexity and richness occurs. The information below is meant merely as a guide or introduction to modern literary theories and trends. <STRONG> Please note</STRONG>: Site is in the process of being updated and expanded - January 2006</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kristisiegel.com/theory.htm"><UL type="disc"> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><FONT face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#336699"><A href="#newcriticism"><STRONG><FONT size="2" color="#0000cc">New Criticism</FONT></STRONG></A></FONT></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><FONT size="2" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#0000cc"><STRONG> <A href="#myth">Archetypal/Myth Criticism</A> </STRONG></FONT></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><FONT size="2" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#0000cc"><STRONG> <A href="#psycho">Psychoanalytic Criticism</A></STRONG></FONT></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><FONT size="2" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#0000cc"><STRONG> <A href="#marx">Marxism</A> </STRONG></FONT></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><FONT size="2" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#0000cc"><STRONG> <A href="#post">Postcolonialism<IMG class="linkscent-icon" src="http://www.kristisiegel.com/chrome://interclue/content/cluecore/skins/default/linkscentDefault.png" clueid="favIcon" /><IMG width="16" height="16" class="linkscent-icon" clueid="anchor" title="This is a link to part of http://www.kristisiegel.com/theory.htm" src="http://www.kristisiegel.com/chrome://interclue/content/cluecore/skins/default/pixel.gif" /><IMG class="linkscent-icon" src="http://www.kristisiegel.com/chrome://interclue/content/cluecore/skins/default/pixel.gif" clueid="clueIcon" /></A> </STRONG></FONT></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><FONT size="2" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#0000cc"><STRONG> <A href="#exist">Existentialism</A></STRONG></FONT></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><FONT size="2" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#0000cc"><STRONG> <A href="#phenom">Phenomenology, and Hermeneutics</A></STRONG></FONT></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><FONT size="2" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#0000cc"><STRONG><A href="#russian">Russian Formalism/Prague Linguistic Circle/Linguistic Criticism/Dialogism</A> </STRONG></FONT></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><FONT size="2" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#0000cc"><STRONG> <A href="#avant">Avant-Garde/Surrealism/Dadaism</A> </STRONG></FONT></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><FONT size="2" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#0000cc"><STRONG> <A href="#struct">Structuralism and Semiotics</A> </STRONG></FONT></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><FONT size="2" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#0000cc"><STRONG> <A href="#poststruct">Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction</A> </STRONG></FONT></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><FONT size="2" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#0000cc"><STRONG> <A href="#postmodern">Postmodernism</A> </STRONG></FONT></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><FONT size="2" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#0000cc"><STRONG><A href="#newhist">New Historicism</A></STRONG></FONT></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><FONT size="2" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#0000cc"><STRONG> <A href="#reception">Reception and Reader-Response Theory</A> </STRONG></FONT></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><FONT size="2" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#0000cc"><STRONG> <A href="#feminism">Feminism</A> </STRONG></FONT></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><FONT size="2" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#336699"><STRONG> <A href="#genre"><FONT color="#0000cc">Genre Criticism</FONT></A> </STRONG></FONT></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><FONT size="2" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#0000cc"><STRONG> <A href="#auto">Autobiographical Theory</A> </STRONG></FONT></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><FONT size="2" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#0000cc"><STRONG> <A href="#travel">Travel Theory</A> </STRONG></FONT></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><FONT size="2" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#0000cc"><STRONG> <A href="#links">Links to Other General Literary Theory Websites</A></STRONG></FONT></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><STRONG><FONT size="2" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#0000cc"><A href="#general">General Resources - Bibliography of Critical Theory Texts</A></FONT></STRONG></LI> </UL></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/36094C80-9319-4C15-B622-E9B38F2854A1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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