The book presents key essays by Western literary theorists of the 1960s and 1980s, giving an idea of the formation and main approaches of modern literary theory. The classic works of Derrida, Baudrillard, Lyotard, de Man, Jauss, Iser and others introduce the problems of modern humanitarian knowledge, introduce the main provisions of poststructuralism and the psychoanalytic school, receptive aesthetics and postmodernism, neo-Marxism and feminism. The book can be used as an anthology for courses on literary theory, modern philosophy, critical theory. For teachers and students of the humanities, literary scholars, and cultural experts.