Literary Theory

Literary theory in a strict sense is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for analyzing literature.[1] However, literary scholarship since the 19th century often includes—in addition to, or even instead of literary theory in the strict sense—considerations of intellectual history, moral philosophy, social prophecy, and other interdisciplinary themes which are of relevance to the way humans interpret meaning. In humanities in modern academia, the latter style of scholarship is an outgrowth of critical theory and is often called simply "theory." As a consequence, t ...more

Literary Theory: An Introduction
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
Poetics
The Pleasure of the Text
Mythologies
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory
Anatomy of Criticism
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
How Fiction Works
S/Z: An Essay
How to Read Literature
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
Aspects of the Novel
The Theory of the Novel
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Alain Robbe-Grillet
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction by John CluteArchaeologies of the Future by Fredric JamesonCritical Theory and Science Fiction by Carl Howard FreedmanThe Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of by Thomas M. DischThe Seven Beauties of Science Fiction by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr.
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Buddhadeva Bose
সুকুমার রায়কে 'হাসির কবিতা'র গণ্ডির মধ্যে ধরে রাখা যায় না। 'আবোল তাবোল', আমার প্রথম থেকেই মনে হয়েছে, বাংলা ভাষার রীতিমতো একটি কাব্যগ্রন্থ, যাতে হাসির ছুতো করে, ছবি ও কৌতুকের সাহায্যে ভুলিয়ে এনে, শিশুদের এবং বয়স্কদেরও কয়েক ফোঁটা বিশুদ্ধ কাব্যরস অন্তঃস্থ করে দেওয়া হলো। 'মেঘ-মুলুকে ঝাপসা রাতে রামধনুকের আবছায়াতে' বসে 'আলোয় ঢাকা অন্ধকারে'র গন্ধে ঘন্টাধ্বনি শুনতে পাবেন কি কবি ছাড়া অন্য কেউ? না কি অন্য কেউ 'পান্তভূতের জ্যান্ত ছানা'কে 'জোছনা হাওয়ার স্বপ্ন-ঘোড়া'য় চড়িয়ে দেবেন? তাঁকে কবি বলে ...more
Buddhadeva Bose, সাহিত্যচর্চা

Ursula K. Le Guin
Narrative is a stratagem of mortality. It is a means, a way of living. It does not seek immortality; it does not seek to triumph over or escape from time (as lyric poetry does). It asserts, affirms, participates in directional time, time experienced, time as meaningful. If the human mind had a temporal spectrum, the nirvana of the physicist or the mystic would be way over in the ultraviolet, and at the opposite end, in the infrared, would be wuthering Heights.
Ursula K. Le Guin, Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

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