A Quiet Journey through Literary Depths
From The Professor’s Desk The professor often wonders why meaning, that most cherished possession of readers and critics, behaves like a well-mannered ghost: present enough to be sensed, but never quite caught in full. Literature, once thought to be the house of meaning, turns out to be haunted by absence, difference, and instability. And the […]
The Literary Rollercoaster with No Center, Only Play From The Professor’s Desk The Age of Uncertainty Begins There was a time—let’s say, mid-20th century—when we believed texts had stable meanings. Words behaved, authors ruled their pages like monarchs, and critics arrived with a magnifying glass and a firm belief in objective interpretation. That time is
LIT Theory 002: Poststructuralism in Literature Read More »
(from the series: Literary Theory Explained) From The Professor’s Desk What if stories didn’t mean what they seemed to mean?What if literature wasn’t a mirror of reality or a confession of the author’s soul—but a kind of language machine, structured by rules we don’t even realize we’re following? Welcome to the sharp, angular, and brilliantly
LIT Theory 001: Structuralism and the Science of Stories Read More »