Abstract
Toward the second decade of the 21st century, literary theory textbooks should absorb the recent developments in literary theory around the world. In contrast to the two existent measures of aniti-theory and the politicization of theory, "the literariness of theory" may be more instructive in the writing of college literary theory textbooks. Literariness has gradually entered the academic field of humanities and liberal arts, and it has helped to form a legitimate discourse for the discipline of literary theory. This discourse is mediated through situations which have the contents such as narrative, fiction, imagination, metaphor, language, dialogue, suspense, anecdotes and biography, and the perspectives point to a positive outlook for transformation.
First Page
189
Last Page
197
Recommended Citation
Liu, Yang. 2014. "The Literariness of Theory: A New Perspective on Writing Textbooks of Literary Theory." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 34, (5): pp.189-197. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol34/iss5/21
