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James R. Elkins
Narrative Theory & Literary Criticism
Two Brief Warnings about Theory and a Personal Note:
 "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 remark, 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)]
Salman
Rushdie on Teaching the Novel and Reading for Pleasure
[YouTube video; 5:35 mins]
Review of a Major Survey of
Literary Theory: Keeping
the Faith: The Limits of Ideological Criticism [A
review of The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism]
 Literary
Theory
Literary Theory
Wikipedia
Literary
Criticism
Wikipedia
A Brief History
of Literary Theory
Introduction to
Modern Literary Theory
Introduction to
Literary Theory
Literary
Criticism and Theory of Criticism
Review of
Mark Turner's The Literary Mind
A Literary Theory Course
Introduction
to Theory of Literature [Paul Frey] -- Introduction-II
--
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
Theory
of Literature
Archetypes
Archetypal
and Myth Criticism
Archetypes
The
American Hero-Quester
Archetypes:
A Map of Meaning
Aristotle
Aristotle
and Literary Criticism
Authorial Intention
Authorial
Intention
Wikipedia
Critical Theory
The Frankfurt
School of Critical Theory
YouTube video
The
Frankfurt School
Ron Strickland; YouTube video
Introduction
to the Frankfurt School Story
YouTube video; pt.2
Existentialism
Existentialism
Feminist Literary Criticism
Feminist
Literary Criticism
Wikipedia
Interpretation
The Problem
of Meaning in Literature
Literary Studies
Teaching
and Studying Literature at the End of Ideology
Critical Inquiry
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
The Reader-Response
Theory of Stanley Fish
Wolfgang Iser
Wolfgang Iser
Wikipedia
Norman N. Holland
Norman Holland
Wikipedia
The Critical
I
Louise Rosenblatt
Louise
Rosenblatt
Wikipedia
Louise
Rosenblatt: Her Influence on Teaching Literature
Marxism
Marxist
Criticism-Defined
Marxist
Literary Interpretation
Wikipedia
Marxism
Marxist
Criticism
Narrative Theory
Narratology
Wikipedia
Narratology:
A Guide to the Theory of Narrative
Introduction
to Narratology
Narrative
Theory
The
Cognitive and Anthropological Origins of Narrative
A Professor's Projects
The
Origins of Narrative
Courses
History & Theory of Narrative Form
New Criticism
New
Criticism
New
Criticism
Modes of Reading,
and Modes of Reading Swift
New Historicism
New Historicism
Wikipedia
Hew Historicism
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
Literary Interpretation
Wikipedia
Freud and Fiction
YouTube video
Psychoanalytic
Approaches
Psychoanalytic
Criticism
Psychoanalytic
Criticism
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
Response
Reader Oriented
Theory in the Classroom
Knowledge
Transfer and Reading: Implications of the Transactional Theory of
Reading
Reader
Response: Empirical Research on Literary
Reading
Rhetoric
Why
Rhetoric Needs a Theory of Reading
Narrative
as Rhetoric
Schema Theory
Schemas
and Stories
Semotics
Semotic
Literary Interpretation
Wikipedia
Structuralism
Structuralism
and Semoitics
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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