Theory Now and Then

Abrams act of reading affirms allegory American appears assumptions attempt beginning Béguin called catachresis Cogito concept consciousness context culture deconstruction defined différance Eliot English essay example existence expression fact fiction figurative language Freud George Eliot Georges Poulet ground Heidegger host human idea identified insight interpretation Jacques Derrida Jean Starobinski linguistic literary criticism literary history literary study Man's Marcel Raymond Matthew Arnold means metaphor metaphysics metonymy mind mise en abyme mode modern motifs narrative nature never Nietzsche nihilism notion novel object opposition origin parable parasite passage perhaps period philosophy poem poet poetry Poulet Poulet's criticism present prosopopoeia Proust put in question reader relation religious rhetoric Riddel's Romantic romanticism Rousseau sense Shelley spatial speak Stevens structure study of literature T. S. Eliot teachers teaching themes things thought tradition translation tropes truth University Wallace Stevens Williams words Wordsworth writing Zarathustra