1.   As far as literary theory is concerned, it is perhaps this more than anything else which constitutes the structuralist revolution.

2.   Contemporary literary theory has also questioned whether a relation between words and things is easily achieved, even possible.

3.   In literary theory they emerge as Marxism, phenomenology, existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, Deconstruction.

4.   Literary theory, drawing on other disciplines, including semiotics and linguistics, seeks for underlying structures and meanings in literature.

5.   The principal characters, Larissa Toren and Armel Santores, teach literature and literary theory at two equally radical universities.

6.   What flows from his pen in this book is a mixture of autobiography, literary theory, and metaphysical speculation.

7.   The result is a range of different genres of literary criticism and literary theory, to some extent distinguished by register.

8.   But for readers with some knowledge of speech act theory, literary theory, or both, this is bound to be an interesting read.

9.   Although it was a course in comparative literature and literary theory, it allowed students to write fiction rather than a thesis.