Teaching Theory

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Introduction: The History and Present Condition of Theory — A Brief Account

   • Richard Bradford

   Pages 1-13

3. Teaching Theory

   • Vincent B. Leitch

   Pages 14-32

4. The Resistance to History: Teaching in the Present

   • Andrew Hadfield

   Pages 33-48

5. The Attractions of Theory

   • Jill Le Bihan

   Pages 49-62

6. Syntactics — Semantics — Pragmatics (Still Having One’s Cake?)

   • Leona Toker

   Pages 63-77

7. The Motivation of Literary Theory: From National Culture to World Literature

   • Stephen Shapiro

   Pages 78-94

8. Marketing Theory: An Overview of Theory Guides

   • Andrew James

   Pages 95-110

9. From Theory to Practice: Literary Studies in the Classroom

   • Katherine Byrne

   Pages 111-126

10. At Home in theory? Teaching One’s Way Through the Theory at Home

    • Madelena Gonzalez

    Pages 127-145

11. Reading by Recipe: Postcolonial Theory and the Practice of Reading

    • Neil Murphy

    Pages 146-162

12. Do I Hate Theory?

    • Richard Bradford

    Pages 163-185

13. Back Matter

    Pages 186-193

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Teaching Theory offers a selection of essays on the pragmatics, benefits and shortcomings of Theory as a key aspect of literature teaching in universities. They range from reflective discussions of Theory as an intellectual challenge for undergraduates to accounts of the day-to-day problems of planning and teaching courses and implementing Theory.

• literary studies
• literary theory
• teaching
• university

• University of Ulster, UK

  Richard Bradford

JILL LE BIHAN Lecturer in English, Sheffield Hallam University, UK KATHERINE BYRNE Lecturer in English, University of Ulster, UK MADELENA GONZALEZ Professor of English Literature, University of Avignon, France ANDREW HADFIELD Professor of English, University of Sussex, UK ANDREW JAMES Lecturer, Chikushi Women's University, Japan VINCENT B. LEITCH George Lynn Cross Research Professor, University of Oklahoma, USA NEIL MURPHY Associate Professor of Contemporary Literature, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore STEPHEN SHAPIRO Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, Warwick University, UK LEONA TOKER Professor in the English Department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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