An open group for all members interested in literary theory, literary criticism, the history of literary theory and criticism, literary aesthetics or literary cultural studies, the theory of literary history, comparative literature, and literary and philological studies generally.
Narasimhananda Swami deposited Forerunners of Malayalam Literature Prabuddha Bharata September 2010 in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 5 days, 17 hours agoA brief survey of the pioneers of Malayalam literature.
Steven Aoun deposited Better Angels of Our Nature: Steven Pinker’s Demon Moves in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoIs it worst to be killed by a crazed mob wielding machetes or to die via conveyor belt and filing system? The Better Angels of Our Nature keeps falling victim to the halo effect, creating an aura around reason itself. The question, then, is whether the book should be viewed as a jewel in reason’s crown or as among its costume jewellery.
Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier deposited Dositej Obradović and the Ambivalence of Enlightenment in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 3 months agoStarting from the critique of Enlightenment from Horkheimer/Adorno to Foucault, this essay discusses implications of such critique for the most eminent figure of Serb enlightenment, Dimitrije (Dositej) Obradović. Topics: Politics towards Josef II’ enlightened despotism, the misunderstanding about Obradovic’ championship of a popular literary…[Read more]
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Conceptos básicos de narratología (Samuel Beckett y la narración reflexiva, 1) in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week agoEste capítulo presenta de modo sucinto una introducción a la narratología estructuralista clásica, que seguidamente se aplica al estudio de la narrativa experimental de Beckett en el libro “Samuel Beckett y la narración reflexiva”. Se presentan los conceptos básicos de la estructura narrativa (tiempo, aspecto, voz, status, modo) definidos en relac…[Read more]
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Steven Aoun deposited What Is ‘Critical’ About Critical Theory? in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week agoThe idea of a critical theory has colonized the social consciousness of academia, and become an integral part of the pursuit of higher knowledge. Competing ideas have thereby become standard bearers in that critical theory acts as a measure of true understanding . The only problem, however, is that many of the distinct theories similarly answering…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Introducción a ‘Samuel Beckett y la narración reflexiva’ in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago‘Samuel Beckett y la narración reflexiva’ es un estudio en profundidad de la escritura experimental de Beckett, en especial de la trilogía novelística ‘Molloy’, ‘Malone muere’ y ‘El Innombrable’, desde la perspectiva de la narratología estructuralista y las teorías estructuralistas sobre la enunciación. La introducción esboza un contexto estilí…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Algunos Elementos Metaficcionales in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoEste artículo clasifica algunos de los elementos metaficcionales más corrientes desde una perspectiva narratológica, según pertenezcan al nivel de la acción, del relato, de la narración, o del discurso del autor. _________________________________________________________________________________
This paper classifies some of the more commo…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘Till Nohow On’: The Later Metafiction of Samuel Beckett in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks agoThis paper examines some of Samuel Beckett’s late narratives (“Company”, “Ill Seen Ill Said”, “Worstward Ho” and “Stirrings Still”), with a focus on the evolution of his metafictional techniques, and more specifically the growing importance acquired by the thematization of the compositional process itself, as well as the attention paid to closure.…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘The Enthusiastick Fit’: The Function and Fate of the Poet in Samuel Johnson’s ‘Rasselas’ in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 3 months, 4 weeks agoThis is a study on the history of literary theory and on Samuel Johnson’s novel ‘The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia’ (1759). Johnson’s literary theory as formulated in the novel is examined in the light of the aesthetic thought of his age. Johnson’s relationships both with classicism and with empiricist pre-Romanticism must be int…[Read more]