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James R. Elkins
Theory & Literary Criticism
Two Brief Warnings about Theory
 "The way we read now
partly depends upon our distance, inner or outer, from the universities,
where reading is scarcely taught as a pleasure, in any of the deeper
senses of the aesthetics of pleasure." [Harold
Bloom, How to Read and Why 22 (New York: Scribner, 2000)]
"Since literature
seemed to be about everything that there is—about the human condition—I
figured that a good literary critic would have to make himself expert
at that big picture. It didn't take me long to realize that the professionalization
of literary criticism has taken reductionism as its model, and that
it too can lead to learning more and more about less and less until
you're in danger of knowing everything there is to know about nothing."
[Richard Powers, in an interview with Jeffrey Williams, "The Last
Generalist: An Interview with Richard Powers," 2 (2) Cultural Logic
(1999)]
On Theory
"Theory is the common
shorthand for approaches to texts which are not particularly concerned
about the two obsessions of traditional criticism, Meaning and Value.
Theory reconnects literature with other areas of knowledge, not to find
the 'meaning' of the text, but to explore cross-currents between, for
example, fiction and psychoanalysis, capitalism and realism, sexuality
and writing, history and literary form, and language and other sign
systems." [Introduction to Contemporary Literary
Theory, Course Syllabus (Dr P. Smethurst, Hong Kong University)]
"My allegiance is
not to a literary theory but to the sum total of my liberating literary
experiences . . . ." [Frank Lentricchia, The
Edge of Night: A Confession 88 (New York: Random House, 1994)]
 Literary
Theory
Literary Theory
Wikipedia
Literary
Criticism
Wikipedia
A Brief History
of Literary Theory
Introduction to
Modern Literary Theory
Video
Salman
Rushdie on Teaching the Novel and Reading for Pleasure
[YouTube video; 5:35 mins]
A Literary Theory Course [Paul Fry, Yale]
Introduction
to Theory of Literature - Introduction-II
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Ways In and Out of the Hermeneutic Circle - Configurative
Reading - The
Idea of the Autonomous Artwork - The
New Criticism and Other Western Formalisms - Russian
Formalism - : Semiotics
and Structuralism - Linguistics
and Literature - Deconstruction
- Deconstruction-II
- Freud
and Fiction - Jacque
Lacan in Theory - Influence
(Harold Bloom) - The
Postmodern Psyche - The
Social Permeability of Reader and Text - The
Frankfurt School of Critical Theory - The
Political Unconscious - The
New Historicism - The
Classical Feminist Tradition - African
American Criticism - Post-Colonial
Criticism - Queer
Theory - The
Institutional Construction of Literary Study - The
End of Theory? -
Reflections; Who Doesn't Hate Theory Now
Literary Criticism
ENG 290: Literary Criticism
video. 8:35 mins.
Archetypes
Archetypal
Criticism
Michael Delahoyde, Introduction to Literature
Archetypal
and Myth Criticism
Archetypal
Literary Criticism
Wikipedia
Authorial Intention
Author's
Intent
Wikipedia
Critical Theory (Video)
The Frankfurt
School of Critical Theory
The
Frankfurt School
Introduction
to the Frankfurt School Story :: Pt2
Existentialism
Existentialism
Feminist Literary Criticism
Feminist
Literary Criticism
Wikipedia
Literary Studies
Teaching
and Studying Literature at the End of Ideology
Richard Ohmann, English in America: A Radical
View of the Profession (Oxford University Press, 1976)
Literary Theorists
Wayne Booth
Wayne C. Booth
Wikipedia
Confessions of
an Aging, Hypocritical Ex-Missionary
Kenneth Burke
Kenneth Burke
Wikipedia
Stanley Fish
Stanley Fish
Wikipedia
Wolfgang Iser
Wolfgang Iser
Wikipedia
Norman N. Holland
The Critical
I
Louise Rosenblatt
Louise
Rosenblatt
Wikipedia
Marxism
Marxist
Literary Interpretation
Wikipedia
Marxism
Introduction
to Marxist Literary Theory
video; 16:23 mins.
Narrative Theory
Narratology
Wikipedia
Narrative
Theory: A Brief Introduction
Narratology:
A Guide to the Theory of Narrative
New Historicism
Hew Historicism
New Historicism
Wikipedia
Phenomenology
"The phenomenological theory of art lays full stress on the idea
that, in considering a literary work, one must take into account not
only the actual text but also, and in equal measure, the actions involved
in responding to that text. . . . [T]he literary work has two poles,
which we might call the artistic and the aesthetic: the artistic refers
to the text created by the author, and the aesthetic to the realization
accomplished by the reader."
—Wolfgang Iser, The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach,
3 (2) New Literary History 279 (1972)
Phenomenology
Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism
Psychoanalytic
Criticism
Freud and Fiction
YouTube video
Psychoanalytic
Literary Interpretation
Wikipedia
Postmodernism
The
Literature of Replenishment-Postmodernist Fiction
Queer Theory
Queer
Literary Interpretation
Wikipedia
Reader Response
Reader-Response
Criticism
Wikipedia
Reception
and Reader-Response Theory
Reader Oriented
Theory in the Classroom
Reader
Response: Empirical Research on Literary
Reading
Rhetoric
Why
Rhetoric Needs a Theory of Reading
Schema Theory
Schemas
and Stories
Semiotics
Semiotic
Literary Interpretation
Wikipedia
Structuralism
Structuralism
and Semiotics
Post-structural
Narrative Theory
Wikipedia
Web
Negotiating
a Passage Among Readers and Writers on the Web
Wittgenstein
The
Narrative Act: Wittgenstein and Narratology
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