Minor Chronology of Literary Criticism
1800's
Hermeneutics
1896
Psychoanalytic Criticism
1900
Semiology or Semiotics
1913
Structuralism
1916
Formalism (Russian)
1940's
New Criticism
1960's
Marxist Criticism
Phenomenology
Late 1960's
Feminism
1970's
Reader-Response Criticism
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