I had coffee and hermeneutics of suspicion for breakfast. In this first lecture, Professor Paul Fry explores the courses title in three parts. The relationship between theory and philosophy, the question of what literature is and does, and what constitutes an introduction are interrogated. The professor then situates the emergence of literary theory in the history of modern criticism and, through an analysis of major thinkers such as Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, provides antecedents for twentieth-century theoretical developments.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 17:14:40 +0000
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