Category Archives: Literary Theory

Searching for the Literary Grail

Posted on April 22, 2013 by annegreen2013

David Lodge’s novel “Small World” has been variously described as a “campus novel”, a clever piece of “critifiction” (a combination of literary theory and practice) and an example of “metafiction”, a literary technique which self-consciously draws attention to the fact … Continue reading →

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Behind a Bush with Nietzsche

Posted on April 4, 2013 by annegreen2013

In his famous essay “On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense”, Nietzsche proposed the metaphoric scenario “when someone hides something behind a bush and looks for it again in the same place and finds it there as well, there … Continue reading →

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Home on the Range with Freud or How I’m Learning to Love Literary Theory

Posted on March 23, 2013 by annegreen2013

Freud and cowboys aren’t concepts one intuitively links together; not like say fish and chips or (to be Freudian about it) boys and girls.  They weren’t to me, at least not until I read Clare Connors’ book “Literary Theory:  A … Continue reading →

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