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The Practice of (Literary) Theory
The Practice of (Literary) Theory

Author(s): Dan George Botezatu
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universitatii Transilvania din Brasov
Keywords: literary theory; practice; consequences; discipline

Summary/Abstract: The fact that literary theory may have exhausted its resources is already common knowledge. Following Stanley Fish’s argument that theory as theory can have no consequences, this article suggests that by focusing on other aspects of theory we can both understand that its death is not a recent episode and that its power may actually reside in its problematic core.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 91-94
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: English