Five Works of Theory You Should Consider Reading

[Ian Livingston]

I think literature has made theory necessary. As writers have evolved
increasingly sophisticated work, readers have found it necessary to analyze
what is presented to them. Now, I vehemently agree that theory has got
quite out of hand, and seems as prescriptive as descriptive (if not more
so), but it is often still useful in offering approaches to understanding
abstruse material. The more pertinent question as I see it is, does theory
fuck with literature, or is the feeling mutual?

On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Michael Fonash <mff8785 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sincerely, not to be an antagonistic prick, but I have to ask, why is
> Literary Theory necessary at all?  I've never understood it's presence
> in the contemporary university.
>
> Mike F.
>
> On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Cioran is worth reading and Stupidity, about which I learned of from a
> > generally quiet
> > plister, is a good book.
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> > To: Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es>
> > Cc: "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 1:59 PM
> > Subject: Re: Five Works of Theory You Should Consider Reading
> >
> > On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Did this get forwarded because of the Pynchon mention?
> >
> > .... I'm thinking maybe Werner might have come across is for that
> > reason (I got it from him, he posted it on Google+), it just seemed
> > like a useful/possibly relevant, even, selection to me, is all.  All
> > worth reading, depending, regardless of the blogger's
> > descriptions/credentials/whatever.  I was particularly gald to see nt
> > only Glas, but Syncope (though The Parasite, maybe Crack Wars,
> > poissibly Borderlands might be more/most relevant here) ...
> >
> >
>



-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds
the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in
reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness
groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
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