Literary theory has a reputation for being difficult, unfairly or not. Whatever the case, everyone approaches literature (or any sort of cultural production — film, painting, sculpture, website, ...

Provided an accessible entry point into complex literary criticism concepts Reframed student engagement with literary works in the context of current debates Influenced course design and teaching in ...

PMLA is the journal of the Modern Language Association of America. Since 1884, PMLA has published members' essays judged to be of interest to scholars and teachers of language and literature. Four ...

”Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies” is a two-part course running over two semesters. Part I (winter term) is a weekly lecture course all first-year students of English should attend. The ...

Vol. 57, No. 4, Special Issue: Technology in Comparative Literature Studies Guest edited by Ning Wang (2020), pp. 585-594 (10 pages) Comparative Literature Studies publishes comparative critical ...

Terry Eagleton, prominent literary theorist, critic and public intellectual, delivered the 2014 Annual Prokhorov Lecture in Critical Theory on the topic: Whatever happened to literary theory? The ...