ENGL2605 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Literary Theory, Chariot Racing, Prosopopoeia
1 Aug 2018
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How does the textbook answer the given questions as an anthology? . If it"s "literature", then it isn"t theory: the converse also holds. Theory and literature has, evermore, diverged since the 18th century (we don"t find texts like keats letters, literary manifestos and john. Dryden"s poems anymore) therefore only theory is theoretical and literature itself isn"t theoretical, it is only the practice, rather than the subject of literary theory. If something is a reading, an analysis or a performance of a text, then it isn"t theory either. (exceptions include: martin heidinger, etc. : follows the post-romantic academic distinction between "just reading" and. Theory is what is written about literature, when you debunk the literature that does not apply, and you are left with "something else". Therefore, the anthology conforms to plato"s account of the difference between literature and theory, ion. In effect, ion is like a summary/condensed version of the anthology.
