...Maria Kalinova This essay focuses on the problem of translation, which Galin Tihanov regards as the afterlife of literary theory in his book The Birth and Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond (2019). According to Tihanov, it is exactly through translation...

...Enyo Stoyanov This article highlights how the premises of the radical historicism of Galin Tihanov’s book The Birth and Death of Literary Theory (2019) are conditioned by developments within literary theory itself. For Tihanov, changes in literature’s perceived usefulness undermine the dominance...

...Bogdana Paskaleva At the core of this essay is an exploration of the notion of regime of relevance introduced by Galin Tihanov in his monograph The Birth and Death of Literary Theory (2019). On the one hand, the author traces the ramifications of Tihanov’s coinage and demonstrates possible arenas...

...Darin Tenev The essay questions the leading role of literary theory throughout the twentieth century and the reason why Theory with a capital T was born out of the field of literary theory rather than out of any other discipline, such as sociology, history, psychoanalysis, and so on. The author...

...Galin Tihanov This essay reflects the author’s interest in understanding the reasons for the growing resistance to theory witnessed over the last couple of decades. The first part attempts to demonstrate that literature and literary theory have been involved in complex dialectical moves between...

..., transnationalism, and translation. In his latest book The Birth and Death of Literary Theory (2019), Galin Tihanov recalls the legacy of classical literary theory and propounds the contemporary discourse of world literature as an unreflected continuation of this legacy as it was articulated in Viktor Shklovsky’s...

... reading of Todorov involves considerable misunderstanding, it nevertheless produces fascinating results and exemplifies the impossibility of relegating literary theory to a single regime of relevance. © 2021 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2021 Franz...

... of the Norton Anthology of Literature by Women as well as a Norton reader titled Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism . Gubar has also published Rooms of Our Own (University of Illinois Press, 2006), Poetry after Auschwitz (University of Illinois Press, 2003), Racechanges (Oxford University Press...

...) as well as numerous articles on race, feminism, and popular culture. Baker, Houston A., Jr. “In Dubious Battle.” New Literary History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation 18 ( 1987 ): 363 -69. Baker, Houston A., Jr., and Patricia Redmond, eds. Afro-American Literary Studies in the 1990s...

... “the question of theory” by exploring “the distinction, in this theoretical moment, between what is and what is not theory” (Weed and Rooney). The present issue returns to the question of the distinction of theory. It takes as its point of departure Galin Tihanov’s recent book The Birth and Death of Literary...

...: in the discipline of history itself, in contemporary literary studies, in cultural studies, and in communications and media theory. In fact, we know today something that Althusser did not: the period, no matter how contested, withstands the removal of the context Althusser still finds...

.... Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction . Oxford: Oxford up, 1997 . ____. On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism . Ithaca, ny: Cornell up, 1982 . Derrida, Jacques. “ Demeure : Fiction and Testimony.” Trans. Elizabeth Rottenberg. Stanford, ca: Stanford up, 2000 . Edelman...

... to the historicity of such scholarly practice. In fact, by critically engaging that practice, I hope to suggest how a self-reflective localization of gender theories imported during the Seventeen-Year Period of socialist literary production...

... and Out in Paris and London , the author asks whether there is a paucity of theory about poverty in contemporary discourses of identity and why that might be so. Orwell and Vollmann each offer a moralist anti-aesthetic and suspicion of rhetorical complexity commonly found in literary representations...

...Mikko Tuhkanen “Homomonadology” outlines the emergence and elaboration of Leo Bersani’s onto-ethics/aesthetics over the past half a century, focusing particularly on his interest in the shared references to Leibnizian metaphysics in twentieth-century philosophical and literary texts. The essay...

... with the (once-dominant) term of theory-speak in literary studies: the philosopher Jacques Derrida’s notion of delay as the inescapable effect of our reading along a chain of words (in a sentence, for example) where meaning is delayed, deferred, exactly because we read in sequence, go forward in a sentence...

... 2005 ). http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/deman/redfield/redfield.html (accessed 13 Aug. 2009). 1 -49. Rooney, Ellen. Seductive Reasoning: Pluralism as the Problematic of Contemporary Literary Theory . Ithaca: Cornell up, 1989 . Rothkopf, Joshua. “I'm Not There.” Time Out New York 634 (22–28...

..., 2003) with Dick Blau, Anecdotal Theory (Duke University Press, 2002), Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment (Duke University Press, 1997), Around 1981: Academic Feminist Literary Theory (Routledge, 1991), and Reading Lacan (Cornell University Press, 1987). Frug, Mary Joe...

... of Seductive Reasoning: Pluralism as the Problematic of Contemporary Literary Theory (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1989) and is currently at work on "Criticism and the Subject of Sexual Violence." Notes In "Conservative," Mooney reports one conferee's conclusion: "They're small in numbers, but so are termites" (11...

..., Romanticism . Stanford: Stanford up, 2003 . Ricco, John Paul. The Logic of the Lure . Chicago: u of Chicago p, 2002 . Rooney, Ellen. “Form and Contentment.” mlq (Mar. 2000 ): 17 -40. ——— Seductive Reasoning: Pluralism as the Problematic of Contemporary Literary Theory . Ithaca: Cornell up...