ENG280H1 Lecture : CLASS NOTES.docx
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A theory must be more than a hypothesis: it can t be obvious; it involves complex relations of a systematic kind among a number of factors; and it is not easily confirmed or disproved. jonathan. Culler, literary theory: a very short introduction, 2-3. Theory is often a pugnacious critique of common-sense notions, and further, an attempt to show that what we take for granted as. Common sense is in fact a historical construction, a particular theory that has come to seem so natural to us that we don t even see it as a theory. How do texts relate to the circumstances in which they are produced? . Look at our believes closely and ask questions. Analysis of modes of analysis, that can apply to literature and to many other fields. Marxist (sold to mystification, supernatural evil at work, and the capitalist is working. Feminist (young woman, sex, punished for sex)
