Literary Theory Today

This book contains the papers given at a conference on literary theory held at the University of Hong Kong from March 31 to April 4, 1981. to complement the papers, an edited version of the taped discussions has been included.In the past two decades, literary theory has undergone such rapid change that it is now, for some, practically unrecognizable. Even when familiar issues surface, they appear in all sorts of unfamiliar guises. As the papers published here demonstrate, literary theory today i