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.
Seo-Young Chu deposited “I, Stereotype: Detained in the Uncanny Valley” in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 2 days, 9 hours agoIn “I, Stereotype,” Seo-Young Chu applies Mori’s theory of the uncanny valley not to robots but to a different species of humanoid artifact: stereotypes of the “yellow peril.” Through analyses of stories by Sax Rohmer, World War Two propaganda, and films from the Bond franchise, Chu investigates ways in which the logic of the uncanny valley has…[Read more]
Jaix Chaix deposited The Medium/Message Is The Message: Intersemiotic Complementarity in James Hogg’s The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a (Justified) Sinner in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 3 days, 9 hours agoThis semiotic analysis identifies and characterizes how textual, compositional, and mathematical resources have been strategically articulated to project intersemiotic complementarity in the book The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner; Written by Himself: With A Detail of Curious Traditionary Facts, And Other Evidence, By The…[Read more]
Irina Schulzki deposited Психопоэтика меланхолии в романе Михаила Шишкина “Записки Ларионова” [Psychopoetics of Melancholy in Mikhail Shishkin’s Novel ‘Notes of Larionov’] in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 6 days, 9 hours agoСommenting on “Notes of Larionov”, Mikhail Shishkin defined his own authorial role in it as follows: «A novel is a means of finding the way to that very primordial love. The author for the characters is similar to God». One can extrapolate this by saying that the author is not only and not as much God to the fictional characters as a ps…[Read more]
Muhammad Naeem deposited SOCIAL MOBILITY, ECONOMICS AND HUMAN AGENCY: A Study of Shahid-e-Råna in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 4 weeks agoTo determine the social status of a person, Sorokin coined the idea of Social space. This theme is useful in analyzing the relative position of a person in one’s group and one’s horizontal or vertical movement within and to other groups. Novel is a symbolic space, which makes possible for writers to construct the relative social status of…[Read more]
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Muhammad Naeem deposited Mirat-ul-Uroos: Female Agency and Male Reform in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 4 weeks agoIn this article, much discussed and popular novel of Nazir Ahmad, Miratul Uroos is analyzed in gender perspective. With the analysis of its main character Asghari, it is argued that novelistic fiction brings about in Urdu literature possibilities of human Agency, especially for the hitherto silenced voices of oppressed gender. This character also…[Read more]
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