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1920s-1930s - humanism, formalism and literary history; 1930s-1940s -formalist, moralist, and New Critical approaches; 1950s-1960s - genrecriticism, romantic mythologies, modernist readings; 1960s-1970s - humanism,structuralism, Marxism; 1970s-1980s - deconstruction and psychoanalyticapproaches; 1980s-1990s - new historicism, feminisms, queer theory, newformalisms organization of critical readings; Lord Byron's twin opposites oftruth ("Don Juan"); the dramas of Lord Byron - "Manfred and Marino Faliero";resolving "The Corsair" - "Lara" and "The Island"; Byron's "Don Juan" and thewoman question; cross-dressing and the politics of gender in "Don Juan";Bulwer Lytton, Disraeli and Byron's homosexuality; ending (in) "ChildeHarold's Pilgrimage" 1 and 2; the postmodernism of "Childe Harold"; authoringthe self - "Childe Harold III"; "Marino Faliero" and the fault of Byron'ssatire; Byron's imperceptiveness to the English spoken word; "Don Juan"reconsidered - the Haidee episode; the art of "Don Juan" - Byron's metrics.