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.
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited “Ghost in the Shell (2): Innocence” — Nostalgia de la experiencia inmediata in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 2 days agoSpanish Abstract: De la conjunción de ‘Neuromante’ y de ‘Blade Runner’, con un toque de ́Matrix ́, surgen el manga y serie de películas de animación ‘Ghost in the Shell’. El dilema de ‘Ghost in the Shell (2): Innocence’ versa sobre la identidad personal: si es replicable, si es imitable, si consiste en signos, ¿dónde está la esencia de la humanid…[Read more]
Francois Lachance deposited Seventh Communication Function in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 6 days agoAn exploration of Roman Jacobson’s six communication functions focused particularly on his remarks on dominance. This brief note posits a seventh (metadiscursive) function to model shifts in the dominance of one of the six functions.
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Hard Translation: Persian Poetry and Post-National Literary Form (2018) in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 2 months agoThis essay examines how translation theory can globalize contemporary literary comparison. Whereas Persian studies has historically been isolated from the latest developments within literary theory, world literature has similarly been isolated from the latest developments within the study of non-European literatures. I propose the methodology of…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘El mapa y el territorio’: Espectáculo de autor in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 2 months agoSpanish Abstract: En una cultura mediática en la que la literatura es espectáculo, los best-sellers son espectáculo de primera, y sus autores se vuelven parte del espectáculo. En este contexto era de esperar que surjan usos experimentales de la figura del autor, o curiosidades si se quiere, como el caso de Houellebecq, que, ficcionalizado en par…[Read more]
Patrice Quammie-Wallen deposited The Prague School Thoery of Drama: Structuralism, Semiotics, … and SFL in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 2 months, 4 weeks agoSlide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: Presentation Overview
Slide 3: Drama and Theatre Elam quote
Slide 4: Prague School interest in theatre, drama and semiotics theory
Slide 5: The beginnings of semiotic exploration – Mukarovsky 1931
Slide 6: Theatre scene example
Slide 7: Prague School and Semiotics
Slide 8 -9: Roman Jakobson’s Theory of…[Read more]-
Patrice Quammie-Wallen deposited An exploratory, experiential survey of the play text in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 3 months agoContent TEXT of Conference Poster
“As part of a wider semantic investigation of western plays this poster conveys some results of the transitivity analysis of the stage directions of Lady Audley’s Secret*, a bourgeois text whose format resembles the prototypical play as we know it today. SFL’s Transitivity resembles Karl Bühler’s Darste…[Read more]
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