It has held sway in the humanities for nearly four decades, surviving even the great culture wars. But it is being used in surprising ways. Either literary theory is dead, or it’s invincible. It ...

Dinkler provides an integrated approach to the relation between literary theory and biblical interpretation, employing a wide range of practical theories and methods. This work engages foundational ...

I feel sorry for Professor Benton’s students, taught literary theory as a cynical disdain for literature, and thus having an artificial wedge driven between such clearly complementary aspects of ...

Richard Harvey Brown, Narrative, Literary Theory, and the Self in Contemporary Society, Poetics Today, Vol. 6, No. 4 (1985), pp. 573-590 ...

But he also includes sociobiology and evolutionary theory as part of the grand illusion that that science and literary studies can mutually enlighten each others' work.

In his latest book, Microsoft software developer turned literature professor Dennis Yi Tenen takes us all the way back to 17th-century apps for a deep dive into computer science and literature’s ...

With the aid of theory, however, I found out that I could confront all those pre-conceived and established concepts that could be challenged. That discovery was really important for me in terms of ...

Lisa Zunshine, What Mary Poppins Knew, Narrative, Vol. 27, No. 1 (JANUARY 2019), pp. 1-29 ...

Fredric Jameson, professor of romance studies, Knut Schmidt Nielsen distinguished professor of comparative literature and director of the Institute for Critical Theory, is remembered for his ...

Dennis Yi Tenen reminds us that technology cannot exist independently of its creators and users, and ultimately humans hold the final responsibility for technology’s impact.