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unusual facts about literary theory



Robert B. Stepto

Robert B. Stepto is a literary theorist and professor of African American studies, English and American Studies at Yale University.


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David Henry Wilson

He also translates many works from French and German, ranging from children’s books by Kirsten Boie to travel guides by Peter Sager, art history by Werner Hofmann, and literary theory by Wolfgang Iser.

Elena Mestergazi

Elena Georgievna Mestergazi (born in 1967, Kaluga) is a Russian literary scholar who specializes in literary theory and 19th, 20th and 21st century Russian literature.

Elsie Alvarado de Ricord

She was professor of general linguistics, literary theory, phonetics and Spanish historic grammar; also she was member of the Latin America Linguistics and Philology Association and of the Inter-American Linguistics and Languages Learning Programme and a corresponding member of the Royal Spanish Academy, member of the Uruguayan National Academy of Letters and of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language.

Japanese poetry

The Kana preface to Kokin Wakashū was the second earliest expression of literary theory and criticism in Japan (the earliest was by Kūkai).

Jovan Skerlić

Upon the completion of his doctorate work in Lausanne in 1901, he spent the next three years in Paris and Munich, where he broadened his knowledge of Western European thought and literary theory and fell under the influence of the French thinkers, Jean-Marie Guyau in particular.

Maritza M. Buendía

Maritza M. Buendía studied the masters in philosophy and history of the ideas, in the UAZ and studied the doctorate in literary theory in the UAM.