This was a syncretic tale of the Sundarbans that was reinterpreted into being at Goethe-Institut Bangladesh on Saturday, June ...

Roland Barthes’ notion that the author is dead has been incredibly influential, though it was not as original or ...

The author of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, on why, in a world awash with fictional dystopias, he set out to write the opposite ...

Introductory examination of significant trends and movements in literary theory including such approaches as formalism and structuralism, post-structuralism, psychoanalytic approaches, theories of ...

Feminist literature in the 21st century largely centres on intersectionality, recognising and exploring how gender intersects ...

EN250 - Introduction to Literary Theory An introduction to literary theory and criticism. Students will study selected poetry, plays and fiction through leading methods such as New Criticism, ...

In 1966, Johns Hopkins hosted a conference devoted to structuralism with the unprepossessing title, “The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man”, that didn’t hint at the controversy ...

Girard, who died in 2015, was a French literary critic who taught at American universities, publishing more than 20 books on topics ranging from 19th-century novels to Indian scripture.

The rapid transition of this well-known theorist from the Bulgarian school, which was based on Marxist ideological theory, to structuralism, which was an extreme denial of this school, is known.

Now they think about it through Theory,” laments a character in Michelle de Kretser’s “Theory & Practice.” But the complaint ...

Department of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature Faculty of Modern Languages Goethe University Frankfurt Telephone +49 (0) 69 798-32869 Email [email protected] ...

Textuality is a shared topic in post-structuralist theory and is based on Derrida’s redefinition of the text in his book “Grammatology” (1974), where he does not confine its meaning to literature and ...