Module 2: Hacking Literary Theory I

begin my attempts at theoretical analysis using the Hacking Literary Theory model.

sleep.

continue doing literary criticism because literary criticism and theory are the same thing.

be an expert at literary theory.

Different but easy. After all, this is a literature class, and I love literature.

Philosophy. Why are we reading philosophy in a literature class?

Different and difficult, but I just need to slow down, and I'll get them.

Different, difficult, and incomprehensible at first. I'll need the help of my peers and the instructor to understand them.

perfect, so I'll make my way through this easily because of it.

not perfect, but it's good enough that I won't need any other resources.

horrible, and there's no help. I'm going to drop now.

imperfect, but there is plenty of help in the many resources to help you understand what you need to know.

am free to do literary criticism since that's all I know, but I will work toward understanding theoretical analysis since that's what I'm learning here.

am free to do literary criticism because it's the same thing as theory.

must get this right because I'm expected to know and apply theory correctly in Module One.

am already confused.

what happens when my cat eats my literary theory anthology.

a video resource my instructor has provided that goes into great detail about how to do theoretical analysis of a literary text.

manipulating the coding of literary theory.

chopping down the trees of literary theory.

strictly limited to four people

can consist of one person

are not limited to four people but must contain at least four people.

for followers not leaders.

is that people cannot hide.

peer review.

my group can do my work for me.

we can all complain about the professor.

a group not listed as a choice.

1984.

either Brave New World or As I Lay Dying.

whatever group I want, but if I choose either The Handmaid's Tale or White Noise, I am certain to get that choice.

awesome because it won't change my feelings about it.

possibly awesome but possibly troubling because it may make it difficult to analyze from a theoretical perspective.

going to kill my love.

What's a theoretical analysis again?

a primary source in our anthology.

Rivkin and Ryan.

me. I am a literary theorist.

anyone who writes about literary theory.