Literary Theory

Literary Theory seems quite appropriate to everything that has led us up to this in class. I find it interesting to view other's interpretation of literature and how many different insights that can be found within one given text.

I was looking at the history behind literary theory and found it interesting how the acceptance of what we now know as lit. theory was not truly established until 1950. Although opinions in the opposing view of an author would seem controversial and no one really wants to be criticized, I still thought that the history of common Lit. theory would have gone farther back to Shakespearean time period. However, I was not surprised to see that the profession was not established until the 20th century.

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_theory#History