Literary studies is in the doldrums. Wave after wave of revisionism has washed over literature departments in the last few decades, bringing a mind-spinning miscellany of new methods and critical ...

I preface this piece with the fact that I am not a journalism major. Outside of The Oracle, the only journalism class I’ve ...

I don’t think it can be refuted that most people on this planet don’t like literary theory. Most people have probably never heard of it and live in rural Asia, and those who have heard of it probably ...

Literary theorists, and probably other scholars, might be divided into two types: settlers and wanderers. The settlers stay put, “hovering one inch” over a set of issues or topics, as Paul de Man, the ...

“Poetics of Rhythm” – that is the title of a project currently in the starting blocks at Goethe University Frankfurt. The aim of Professor Achim Geisenhanslüke, Professor for Literary Theory and ...

Fredric Jameson, the Marxist literary theorist who died on Sunday at 90, was the sort of genius who accumulated legends, legends that were often about his genius. I was once told that when he sat down ...

To understand some of the puzzling trends in recent American literature, it helps to have a basic knowledge of the so-called “post-structuralist” theory that took hold in U.S. English departments in ...