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Literary Theory/Renaissance Texts
Italica, 1987"The editors of this book have brought together a collection of first-rate essays that display the range and fecundity of contemporary theory."--Ralph Flores, Philosophy and Literature.
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Human Nature, 1995
Presupposing that all knowledge is the study of a unitary order of nature, the author maintains that the study of literature should be included within the larger field of evolutionary theory. He outlines four elementary concepts in evolutionary theory, and he argues that these concepts should regulate our understanding of literature.
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Presupposing that all knowledge is the study of a unitary order of nature, the author maintains that the study of literature should be included within the larger field of evolutionary theory. He outlines four elementary concepts in evolutionary theory, and he argues that these concepts should regulate our understanding of literature.
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Literary theory, theory, and post-theory
Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, 2010By tracing the development of literary studies in the 20th century, this article distinguishes “Theory of Literature” (or “Literary Theory”), “Theory” and “Post-theory” by their distinctive attributions in varied historical and cultural contexts, and then further demonstrates their theoretical paradigms, namely, the modern paradigm of formalism, the ...
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A literary playground: Literary criticism and balance theory
Poetics, 1999Abstract One of the central tenets in an institutional approach to literary criticism is the hypothesis that literary evaluation is a social process guided by institutional norms and constraints. Literary quality is not just hidden within a text; critics and other members of the literary field assign quality to texts. Previous judgements on the text,
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Abhinavagupta’s Literary Theory
2021Abstract Building on the background laid out in Chapter 2, this chapter gives an analysis of Abhinavagupta’s literary theory, which is framed as a defense of Ānandavardhana’s theory of poetic manifestation, but which changes that theory in important ways.
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Literary Theory in Reverse: The Literariness of Theory
2016Beginning with Faust’s translation of the first line of the Gospel of John in Goethe’s drama, as well as Friedrich Kittler’s interpretation of Faust’s interpretative act in Aufschreibesysteme 1800/1900 (Discourse Networks 1800/1900), this chapter reflects on both the status of the literary studies scholar and the contested place of literary theory ...
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2020
The Arabic language has a rich history of literary criticism and theory, starting from the 8th century ce up to the 21st century. This literary criticism and theory engages with a poetic tradition that dates back to pre-Islamic times. The inquiry into literary quality was motivated by an interest in evaluating poetry, a general concern with eloquent ...
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The Arabic language has a rich history of literary criticism and theory, starting from the 8th century ce up to the 21st century. This literary criticism and theory engages with a poetic tradition that dates back to pre-Islamic times. The inquiry into literary quality was motivated by an interest in evaluating poetry, a general concern with eloquent ...
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