LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature

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In contemporary humanities discourse, the term theory frequently evokes a polarized response: it is viewed as a liberatory critical tool capable of uncovering societal power structures, yet also seen as an intimidating labyrinth of esoteric jargon. Hans Berten’s Literary Theory: The Basics, now in its updated fourth edition, attempts to negotiate this dialectic by providing a structured guide to literary studies. Be…

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scientific article published in 2016

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Yet what surprises me most of all at this time is that what I have written consists, as it were, almost entirely of quotations. – Compositions so produced are to poetry what mosaic is to painting. – It is the craziest mosaic technique you can imagine – and the very mind which directs the hands in formation is incapable of accounting to itself for the origin, the gradations, or the media of the process.Shelley with B…

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Near Stars: Analytic Scale and the Literary Object What happens if we describe the current situation of literary criticism as a crisis in largeness? For one, recent theories of world literature and of quantitative textual analysis can be made to share a genealogy, one that allows us to imagine scale as a central feature of the ontology of literary object. This opens, in turn, the door onto a resistance to large scal…