Blogs about: Literary Theory
Featured Blog
Anne Finch: Creating Her Own Space
The poem “The Critick and The Writer of Fables” published in 1713 by Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, is an ambitious attempt at a satirical play on gendered and formal limitations of… more »
BRAIN DRAIN
the reality show
ottiliemignon wrote 4 days ago: A theory of the contemporary theater might begin with the juxtaposition of Bertolt Brecht and the … more »
Obama, Prissy Prince Charming; Or, why it is possible to be an Obamabot and have a sense of humour
— 3 comments
Peter Kerry Powers wrote 1 week ago: I’m not much convinced that The New Yorker cover works as satire (more on that below), but I t … more »
History of Ideas
mandellc wrote 3 weeks ago: The history of ideas has had some bad press in cultural studies where too many critics produce a … more »
Interaction Criticism: How to Do It, Part 6
— 1 comment
jeffreybardzell wrote 4 weeks ago: Four Directions in Academic Design Criticism In Part 5 of this series (which more or less begins her … more »
McSweeney's fun
— 1 comment
Paul Crittenden wrote 1 month ago: If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll know that I love McSweeney’s. A few days a … more »
Interaction Criticism: How to Do It, Part 5
— 2 comments
jeffreybardzell wrote 1 month ago: Examples and Explanations of Design Criticism Writing Last week I posted Part 4 in my series on Inte … more »
Interaction Criticism: How to Do It, Part 4
— 2 comments
jeffreybardzell wrote 1 month ago: Produce a Critique, Or, What and How to Write Continued from Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. I apologize … more »
a useful neologism
— 2 comments
elberry wrote 1 month ago: i’ll probably be too work-busy to post anything substantial today, but couldn’t resist s … more »
Milton's Sword of the Angel and the 1664 Comet
kvond wrote 1 month ago: As it relates to Spinoza and the Caliban Question below, there is an illumination of the special … more »
Interaction Criticism: How to Do It, Part 3
— 2 comments
jeffreybardzell wrote 1 month ago: Building a Critical Interpretation This post continues a multi-part series on interaction criticism … more »
HAL 9000
kvond wrote 1 month ago: The Intelligence of Innocence and What Makes Things Real The “Open the pod bay doors please H … more »
Interaction Criticism: How to Do it, Part 2
— 4 comments
jeffreybardzell wrote 1 month ago: Low-Level Interpretive Strategies, or, Things to Look For In Part 1 of this series, I covered three … more »
Interaction Criticism: How to Do It, Part 1
— 7 comments
jeffreybardzell wrote 1 month ago: General Introduction In my previous post I concluded that those of us who have a foot in the two wor … more »
IHT Library: Spreading the disease
Scott wrote 1 month ago: Books are like fingerprints. Each one leaves a distinct mark on the reader, but to a finer point, th … more »
advisement
reeyah wrote 1 month ago: no turning back. . i’m going to enroll this first semester AGAIN after ten years (hyperbole, i … more »
The Condensation of Specificity: Paul's Use of "stoicheia"
kvond wrote 1 month ago: Paul’s Rhetorical Use of “stoicheia” in Galatians 4:3,9 When contemplating the … more »
The ‘death of the author’ as an instance of theory
ourclass82 wrote 2 months ago: One of the positions taken by post-structuralist theorists is that the author is dead. As is the ca … more »
John Donne's Material Monism of Love, and Spinoza's Eternity of the Mind
kvond wrote 2 months ago: John Donne’s “Valediction Forbidding Mourning” articulates a metaphysics which ma … more »
Towers and Bridges, From Ada to Tolkien
— 2 comments
kvond wrote 2 months ago: Nabokov’s Ada Children of her type conceive of the purest philosophies. Ada had worked out … more »
Have your say. Start a blog.
See our free features »
An 
Production
