Stuart Hall’s “The Emergence of Cultural Studies and the Crisis of the Humanities” Summary of Stuart Hall’s “The Emergence of Cultural Studies and the Crisis of the Humanities” In “The Emergence of Cultural Studies and the Crisis of the Humanities,” Stuart Hall explains why cultural studies came int...
Marxism Marxism Marxism is a way of understanding society, history, and culture that was developed mainly by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the nineteenth century. As explained in Beginning Theory, Marxism starts from a very simple but powerful idea: human society is shaped mainly by economic con...
Keats’s Concept of Negative Capability Keats’s Concept of Negative Capability John Keats’s idea of negative capability is one of the most important and influential concepts in Romantic literary theory. Although Keats mentioned the term only once, in a letter written in December 1817 to his brothers ...
Deleuze and Guattari’s “What Is a Minor Literature?” Deleuze and Guattari’s “What Is a Minor Literature?” Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s essay “What Is a Minor Literature?” is one of the most influential texts in modern literary theory. It appears in their book Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature ...
Henry James’ “The Art of Fiction” Henry James’ “The Art of Fiction” Henry James’s essay “The Art of Fiction” (1884) is one of the most important critical essays on the novel ever written. In this essay, James defends the novel as a serious art form and explains what he believes makes fiction great. ...