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Literary theory is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for literary analysis. [1] Since the 19th century, literary scholarship includes literary theory and considerations of intellectual history , moral philosophy, social philosophy, and interdisciplinary themes relevant to how people interpret meaning . [ 1 ]
W.E. Coles Jr. suggests that teaching writing should be approached as teaching art, with the teacher serving as facilitator or guide for the student-writer's free expression; he also calls for classroom practices such as peer-reviews, class discussions, and the absence of grades, in order to best guide the self-identification he sees as crucial ...
Theory of Literature is a book on literary scholarship by René Wellek, of the structuralist Prague school, and Austin Warren, a self-described "old New Critic". [1] The two met at the University of Iowa in the late 1930s, and by 1940 had begun writing the book; they wrote collaboratively, in a single voice over a period of three years.
The Journal of Literary Theory is a double-blind peer-reviewed academic journal published by Walter de Gruyter since 2007. The journal is dedicated to research in literary theory. It takes an interdisciplinary approach and includes a broad variety of theories and methods. Publication languages are English and German.
Reader-response theory recognizes the reader as an active agent who imparts "real existence" to the work and completes its meaning through interpretation. Reader-response criticism argues that literature should be viewed as a performing art in which each reader creates their own, possibly unique, text-related performance.
Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes research on teaching. It was established in 1995 and is published eight times per year by Taylor & Francis. The editor-in-chief is Christopher Day (University of Nottingham).
Eichenbaum's 1926 essay "The Theory of the 'Formal Method'" (translated in Lemon and Reis) provides an economical overview of the approach the Formalists advocated, which included the following basic ideas: The aim is to produce "a science of literature that would be both independent and factual," which is sometimes designated by the term poetics.
The Journal of Narrative Technique was founded in 1971 by the Eastern Michigan University Department of English and published by the Eastern Michigan University Press. The journal published papers that focused on the authorial management of narrative elements, drawing subject matter from all periods and genres of English literature, including prose and verse.