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
Haun Saussy
China is not a country or a language but a world—the kind of parallel world in which Leibniz would have wanted to carry out experiments on causality and Providence.
Haun Saussy, The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic

Arthur Schopenhauer
The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
Arthur Schopenhauer, The Works of Schopenhauer: The Wisdom of Life and Other Essays

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