Cover -- Copyright and Licence -- Title Page -- A Note on the Author -- Contents -- Introduction -- Russian Formalism -- Roman Jakobson -- Vladimir Propp -- Structuralism -- Ferdinand De Saussure -- Claude Lévi-Strauss -- Semiotics -- Roland Barthes -- Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction -- Jean-François Lyotard -- Jacques Derrida -- Paul De Man -- Psychoanalytic Theories -- Jacques Lacan -- Julia Kristeva -- Understanding the Discursive Nature of History and Culture -- Michel Foucault -- Clifford Geertz -- Postcolonial Theory -- Edward Said -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- Ngugi Wa Thiong'O -- Paul Gilroy -- Bibliography -- Hyperlinked Material.