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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
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The writer asks himself, would A really cause B and not C, etc, and he creates what seems , at least by the test of his own imagination and experience of the world an inevitable development of story. Inevitability does not depend, of course, on realism. Some or all characters may be fabulous––dragons, griffins, Achilles' talking horses––but once a character is established for a creature, the creature must act in accord with it.
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― On Morale Fiction
― On Morale Fiction
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It doesn't matter whether a sequence of words is called a history or a story: that is, whether it is intended to follow a sequence of actual events or not. As far as its verbal shape is concerned, it will be equally mythical in either case. But we notice that any emphasis on shape or structure or pattern or form always throws a verbal narrative in the direction we call mythical rather than historical.(p.21)
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― Biblical and Classical Myths: The Mythological Framework of Western Culture
― Biblical and Classical Myths: The Mythological Framework of Western Culture
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