To the Editor: In “Goodbye, Mr. Keating” (Careers, July 7), Thomas H. Benton asserts that the academic study of literature is, or has become, incompatible with the love of literature that ...

This course will examine the major literary theory paradigms of the post-World War II era, including Marxism, structuralism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, feminism, queer theory, race theory, body ...

He begins this historical overview of literary criticism with a brief tale of 18th-century British historian Edward Gibbon, ... work that formed a critical base for structuralist theory. It struck at ...

Todorov's Fantastic Theory of Literature. Translated from the Polish by Robert Abernathy. Since structuralism in literary studies is largely of French origin, let this attempt to ruin its reputation ...

How high theory reshaped our understanding of power, social structure, cultural dynamics and history. Fredric Jameson, who died this week at age 90, was one of the last high theorists still standing.

This class provides a survey of the field of literary criticism and theory from Antiquity to the present. Texts are drawn from a range of theoretical schools or movements, including formalism, ...

Michigan: English 486.001, “History of Criticism": Main texts, On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism After Structuralism, by Jonathan D. Culler (Cornell University Press, 1983); Literature ...

This course will examine the major literary theory paradigms of the post-World War II era, including Marxism, structuralism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, feminism, queer theory, race theory, body ...