Abstract
If Australian literary criticism of the 1990s faced the seemingly impossible task of maneuvering itself out of its post-Theory impasse,it managed to forge a way out by engaging themselves in the study of 1) literary institutions,2) possibilities of literary digitalization and 3) transnational literary relations and creating in the last two decades something like a neo-empiricist paradigm.By nature,the neo-empiricist approach is not anti-Theory. As a post-Theory form of literary scholarship,it calls for a combination of Theory and genuine literary data.It also arises as a way of living up to a new era,a new set of technologies and a newly integrated universe.As a way of literary reading,it stresses the importance of having great infrastructure and handy resources to facilitate a wiser and more pragmatic literary reading.
Translated title of the contribution | Australian literary criticism after “theory” |
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Original language | Chinese (Simplified) |
Pages (from-to) | 143-152 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Dangdai Waiguo Wenxue (Contemporary Foreign Literature) |
Volume | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2013 |
Keywords
- Australian literature
- history and criticism
- philosophy