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'''Literary theory''' is the [[theory]] (or the [[philosophy]]) of the interpretation of [[literature]] and [[literary criticism]]. Its history begins with classical Greek [[poetics]] and [[rhetoric]] and includes, since the [[18th century]], [[aesthetics]] and [[hermeneutics]]. In the [[20th century]], "theory" has become an umbrella term for a variety of scholarly approaches to reading texts, most of which are informed by various strands of [[Continental philosophy]].

'''Literary theory''' is the [[theory]] (or the [[philosophy]]) of the interpretation of [[literature]] and [[literary criticism]]. Its history begins with classical Greek [[poetics]] and [[rhetoric]] and includes, since the [[18th century]], [[aesthetics]] and [[hermeneutics]]. In the [[20th century]], "theory" has become an umbrella term for a variety of scholarly approaches to reading texts, most of which are informed by various strands of [[Continental philosophy]].

==See also==

==See also==

* List of literary terms[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_literary_terms]

* List of literary terms[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_literary_terms]

==References==

==References==

*[[Bakhtin]], M. M. (1981) ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=JKZztxqdIpgC The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays]''. Ed. Michael Holquist. Trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin and London: University of Texas Press.

*[[Bakhtin]], M. M. (1981) ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=JKZztxqdIpgC The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays]''. Ed. Michael Holquist. Trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin and London: University of Texas Press.

== External links ==

== External links ==

* [http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/gutenberg/etext99/poetc10.txt Aristotle's ''Poetics'' (350 BCE)]

* [https://www2.cddc.vt.edu/gutenberg/etext99/poetc10.txt Aristotle's ''Poetics'' (350 BCE)]

* [http://classicpersuasion.org/pw/longinus/ Longinus' On the Sublime (1st century CE)]

* [https://classicpersuasion.org/pw/longinus/ Longinus' On the Sublime (1st century CE)]

* [http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/defence.html Sir Philip Sidney's ''Defence of Poesie'' (1595)]

* [https://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/defence.html Sir Philip Sidney's ''Defence of Poesie'' (1595)]

* [http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/bibliography.html "A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology", by José Ángel García Landa]

* [https://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/bibliography.html "A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology", by José Ángel García Landa]

* [http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~tpl/texts/quotes.html "Some Literary Criticism quotes", by Tim Love]

* [https://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~tpl/texts/quotes.html "Some Literary Criticism quotes", by Tim Love]

* [http://www.geocities.com/litcrittoolkit The Litcrit Toolkit]

* [https://www.geocities.com/litcrittoolkit The Litcrit Toolkit]

* [[Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]]:  [http://www.iep.utm.edu/l/literary.htm  "Literary Theory," by Vince Brewton]

* [[Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]]:  [https://www.iep.utm.edu/l/literary.htm  "Literary Theory," by Vince Brewton]

* [http://www.literaturtheorie.uni-goettingen.de Annotated bibliography on literary theory]

* [https://www.literaturtheorie.uni-goettingen.de Annotated bibliography on literary theory]

== References ==

== References ==

==Further reading==

==Further reading==

* Carroll, J. (2007). Evolutionary Approaches to Literature and Drama. In Robin Dunbar and Louise Barrett, (Eds.), ''The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology''. Chapter 44. [http://www.umsl.edu/~engjcarr/web_documents/Ev%20Approaches%20to%20Lit%20&%20%20Drama%20%28Oxford%20handbook%29.htm Full text]   

* Carroll, J. (2007). Evolutionary Approaches to Literature and Drama. In Robin Dunbar and Louise Barrett, (Eds.), ''The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology''. Chapter 44. [https://www.umsl.edu/~engjcarr/web_documents/Ev%20Approaches%20to%20Lit%20&%20%20Drama%20%28Oxford%20handbook%29.htm Full text]   

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