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• Moral Criticism, Dramatic Construction (~360 BC-present)
• Structuralism/Semiotics (1920s-present)
• Formalism, New Criticism, Neo-Aristotelian Criticism (1930s-present)
• Psychoanalytic Criticism, Jungian Criticism(1930s-present)
• Marxist Criticism (1930s-present)
• Reader-Response Criticism (1960s-present)
• Feminist Criticism (1960s-present)
• Post-Structuralism/Deconstruction (1966-present)
• New Historicism/Cultural Studies (1980s-present)
• Post-Colonial Criticism (1990s-present)

from Literary Theory and Schools of Criticism (OWL @ Purdue)