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.
Meili Steele deposited Arendt versus Ellison on Little Rock: The Role of Language in Political Judgment in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week agoFew of Arendt’s writings have drawn more criticism from her own supporters than “Reflections on LIttle Rock,” in which she opposes the federally mandated desegregation of schools. I take Arendt’s comments as a way of opening up problems in her conception of the relationship among political storytelling, plurality and judgment. I do this through a…[Read more]
Meili Steele deposited Social Imaginaries and the Theory of the Normative Utterance in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoFrom Charles Taylor to Marcel Gauchet, theorists of the social imaginary have given us new ways
to talk about the shared structures of meanings and practices of the West. Theorists of this group
have argued against the narrow horizons of meaning that are deployed by deliberative political
theories in developing their basic normative concepts…[Read more]Meili Steele deposited The Philosophical Importance of Henry James’s Late Style in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoWhen speaking of the philosophical importance of James’s late style, critics and philosophers have taken two broad approaches. One route, exemplified by Martha Nussbaum, attributes this style to the sensitivity of the characters. The other, exemplified by Robert Pippin, attributes the writing’s complexity to the ambiguities of the moral codes dur…[Read more]
Saskia Fischer deposited „Der Wunsch die Augen nicht zu öffnen“ – Kunst, Medialität und Schuld in ‚Die Habenichtse‘. In: Der Deutschunterricht 2 (2019). Verfilmte Gegenwartsliteratur. Hg. Susanne Kaul, S. 46-55. in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoDie Terroranschläge vom 11. September 2001 in New York und damit das einschneidende ‚Medienereignis‘ nach der Jahrtausendwende bilden den Ausgangspunkt von Katharina Hackers Roman Die Habenichtse, für den sie 2006 mit dem Deutschen Buchpreis geehrt wurde. Da es sich um einen Text handelt, der stark von digitalen Erzählverfahren inspiriert ist un…[Read more]
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Saskia Fischer deposited Poetische Ritualität und Schuld im Theater nach 1945 – Nelly Sachs, Mary Wigman und Pina Bausch. In: Kunst-Rituale – Ritual-Kunst. Zur Ritualität von Theater, Literatur und Musik in der Moderne. Eds. S. Fischer et al. Würzburg: Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, 39–62. in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week agoDer Text widmet sich dem dramatischen Werk von Nelly Sachs, das bislang in der Forschung kaum Beachtung gefunden hat. Vor allem wurde die Brisanz der Ritualität ihrer Dramen noch nicht gesehen: Im Wissen um die nationalsozialistische Instrumentalisierung ritueller Formen im Dritten Reich sind es gerade sie, auf die Nelly Sachs nach dem Ende des…[Read more]
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Saskia Fischer deposited Poetische Ritualität und Schuld im Theater nach 1945 – Nelly Sachs, Mary Wigman und Pina Bausch. in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week agoDer Text widmet sich dem dramatischen Werk von Nelly Sachs, das bislang in der Forschung kaum Beachtung gefunden hat. Vor allem wurde die Brisanz der Ritualität ihrer Dramen noch nicht gesehen: Im Wissen um die nationalsozialistische Instrumentalisierung ritueller Formen im Dritten Reich sind es gerade sie, auf die Nelly Sachs nach dem Ende des…[Read more]
Narasimhananda Swami deposited Lectures on Patañjali’s Mahābhāshya Volumes IX and X Kuppuswami Sastry Research Institute Book Review Prabuddha Bharata June 2014 in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 4 months agoLectures on Patañjali’s Mahābhāshya Volumes IX and X Kuppuswami Sastry Research Institute Book Review Prabuddha Bharata June 2014
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Justice Deferred: Legal Duplicity and the Scapegoat Mentality in Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Jim Crow America,” Law & Literature (2019) in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 4 months agoAlthough best known as a poet, African-American writer Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) developed a unique voice in his fiction. This essay explores the bifurcation Dunbar discerned between the law as an instrument of justice and as a stabilizer of the segregationist status quo in Jim Crow America. Dunbar’s characters systematically scapegoated…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Forerunners of Malayalam Literature Prabuddha Bharata September 2010 in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 4 months, 1 week 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 5 months, 3 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 7 months, 1 week 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 7 months, 2 weeks 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 7 months, 2 weeks 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 7 months, 3 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 7 months, 3 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 8 months 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 8 months 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]
