The Literary in Theory (Cultural Memory in the Present)

The Literary in TheoryAuthor(s): Jonathan Culler\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804753746, 978-0804753746\nSynopsis\nHas theory neglected literature? Often literary and cultural theory, which goes by the nickname \""Theory,\"" has seemed to be the theory of everything except literature: theory of language, of sexuality, of history, of the body, of the psyche, of meaning (or meaninglessness), of politics, but not theory of literature.\n\n In this timely and wide-ranging book, Jonathan Culler, whose lucid analyses of structuralism, semiotics, and deconstruction have been prized by generations of readers, explores the place of the literary in theory. If theory has sometimes neglected literature, the literary has, Culler argues, retained a crucial if misunderstood role. Culler's account of the fortunes of the literary in theory, of the resistance to theory, and of key theoretical conceptstext, sign, .