Five Works of Theory You Should Consider Reading

[Dave Monroe]

On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 11:17 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.

It's ALL literary theory, plot, character, setting, theme (to name
John Hawkes' "true enemies of the novel"), you name it, it's just that
some of it has been naturalized by now, is all.