Tag: Literary Theory

• why studying literature will break your heart, rot your brain, and destroy all your chances of happiness

  Why do we always know who the bad guy is? Let me specify…we’re not talking complicated, Dostoyevskian, “which one of the three brothers is the most irrevocably effed?” kind of bad guy. We’re talking two guys walk into a novel, and one of them you’re really going to hate. So, I guess we’re talking Tolstoy..…

  indirectlibre

  February 17, 2013

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  Literary Theory

• why studying literature will break your heart, rot your brain, and destroy all your chances of happiness

  Hey – yeah, you there. Did you know that the lover’s discourse is today of an extreme solitude? (1) * Oh, you weren’t aware? Well, maybe you already knew that the whole time you were sitting, alone, at the bar, expecting your date to walk in any minute, you were in fact singing a syntactical…

  indirectlibre

  October 19, 2012

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  Barthes, Literary Theory

• S/Z, or, the “if you give a mouse a cookie” of theory

  S/Z is the first work of proper “lit’r’y theory” I ever picked up. It was a required course for comp lit majors, and I have my suspicions that this was the first work listed on the syllabus precisely so that we could take the appropriate advantage of drop/add week. Years later, and after having read…

  indirectlibre

  October 5, 2012

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  Barthes, Literary Theory, teaching