It seems a natural question - what kind of thing am I looking for out of literary theory? What would it take to convince me that some body of theory was valuable?
Well, something that I thought was true and non-obvious would be a good start. Even if it didn’t provide any new insights, something that [...]
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what am I looking for?
20 February 2005 – 2:27 pm
my personal experience of theory
10 February 2005 – 2:53 am
I’m a natural customer for critical theory. But I’m not a fan.
I’m generally reluctant to engage too much with arguments about literary/critical theorising because I haven’t read enough of the key primary texts. But I’m unwilling to bow out of the discussion altogether because there was a time, admittedly only a few months, when [...]