- Mikhail Bakhtin– Carnivalesque, Heterroglossia, Dialogism
- Roman Jackobson– Structuralism
- Julia Kristeva– Intertexuality, Semanalysis, Genotext/Phenotext,Chora
- Jacques Derrida– Deconstruction,Phallagocetrism, Difference
- Harold Bloom– School of Resentment
- Ludwig Kleges– logocentrism
- Antonio Gramsci– Hegemony, Subaltern,
- Louis Althusser– interpellation
- Sigmund Freud– psychoanalysis, Oedipus complex
- Curl Jung– collective unconsciousness, Electra complex
- Thomas Rhymer– Poetic Justice
- Ted Nelson– Hypertext
- Helene Cixous– sext, chaosmos
- Milton– high disdain
- Jean Bellumin– avant-texte
- Lacan– Homonolette
- Alder– inferiority complex
- Baudrillard– hyperreality
- George Bataille- Heterology
- Gaston Paris– courtly love
- Bertolt Brecht– epic theater, alienation effect
- Martin Esslin– theater of the absurd
- Antonin Atraud– the theatre of cruelty
- Jean Jacques Besnard– theatre of silence
- Simone de Beauvoir– other in feminism
- Elaine Showalter– Gynocritism
- Teressa de Lauretes – queer
- E.K.Sedgwick– homosocial desire
- Wilhelm Dilthey– Hermeneutic circle
- Wolfgang Iser- implied reader,reception
- Edmund Husserl – phenomenological reduction
- Hans Robert Jauss– Horizon of Expectations
- Roman Ingarten– intentional sentence correlatives
- Stanely Fish– Interpretive Communities
- Gabriel Proust– existentialism
- Stephen Greenblatt– new historicism, resonance, wonder
- Raymond Williams- cultural materialism, structure of feeling
- Andrew Sarris– auteur theory
- W.B. Yeats– gyres
- John Keats– egotistical sublime, negative capability
- Lionel Abel– meta theatre
- Truman Catope– faction
- Andre Gide– mise-en-abyme
- Jean Lyotard– grand and little narratives
- Ray Oldenburg – third space
- Mary Pratt– contact zone
- Alfred Sauvy– third world studies
- Homi K. Bhaba– unhomeliness, hybridity, mimicry, ambivalence, civility
- Aime Cesaire-negritude
- Benedict Anderson– Imagined Communities
- Rudyard Kipling – White Man’s burden
- Franz Fanon– the literature of combat
- Edward Said– Orientalism
- Jan Mohmed– minority discourse
- Barbara Harlow– resistance literature
- Otto Jesperson– the great vowel shift
- A.S. Hornby -situational approach
- Nelson Brooks-audio lingual
- Dell Hymes– communicative competence
- Charles Baudelaire -modernity
- Ferdinand de Sassure– langue/parole, aesthetics
- Noam Chomsky– competence, performance, deep structure
- C.S.Pierce– iconic/indexical
- Roland Barthes-readerly/writerly
- M.A.K.Halliday-interlanguage
- Cleanth Brooks-irony
- William Reukert- ecocriticism
- Alexander Pope-nature methodized
- Salman Rushdie- chutnification
- Krashen– input hypothesis
- E.M. Forster– only connect
- G.M.Hopkins – curtal sonnet
- Franz Roe– magic realism
- Frederic Schlegel– Romantic
- Dipesh Chakraborty– provincializing Europe
- Michael Foucault – episteme,geneology, author function
- Gayatri Chakraborty– strategic essentialism
- Alice Walker– womanism
- J.R.R. Tolkein– mythopoeia
- Paul Ricoeur– hermeneutics of suspicion
- Ruskin– pathetic fallacy
- Allen Tate– tension
- Charles Fourier-feminisme