Bertens Hans. Literary Theory. Part 2

The Basics. — London: Routledge, 2001. — 256 pp.The premise of Literary Theory: The Basics is that literary theory and literary practice – the practice of interpretation – can indeed not very well be separated and certainly not at the more advanced level of academic literary studies. One of its aims, then, is to show how theory and practice are inevitably connected and have always been connected.The poststucturalist revolution: Derrida, deconstruction, and postmodernism
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