http://greenlagirl.com/30-books-in-30-days-something-borrowed/ Urban environmental lifestyle blog in Los Angeles Fri, 25 May 2012 07:14:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://greenlagirl.com/30-books-in-30-days-something-borrowed/comment-page-1/#comment-89203 don hosek Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:43:22 +0000 http://greenlagirl.com/2007/06/05/30-books-in-30-days-something-borrowed/#comment-89203 I think that there's a realy dramatic case of diminishing returns when it comes to literary theory. I did two semesters of it in undergrad, and read a bit afterwards, but I have to say that sometime around the middle of the second semester was the point where it transformed from thinking about how to approach the act of reading/criticism to primarily navel-gazing. I do have to admit that the heavily New Critic-influenced regular lit classes had far more to do with my thoughts on literary theory than did any of the theoretical reading that I did. I think that there’s a realy dramatic case of diminishing returns when it comes to literary theory. I did two semesters of it in undergrad, and read a bit afterwards, but I have to say that sometime around the middle of the second semester was the point where it transformed from thinking about how to approach the act of reading/criticism to primarily navel-gazing. I do have to admit that the heavily New Critic-influenced regular lit classes had far more to do with my thoughts on literary theory than did any of the theoretical reading that I did.

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