20世纪后期以来,文学理论进入“后理论”时代。文学理论呈现出多元发展的态势,理论狂热流行并逐渐体制化,人们热衷于女性主义,心理分析等领域,文学研究的理论逐渐偏离文学本身的特点,20世纪80年代兴盛的“文化研究”更是加剧了这股势头。在此背景下,乔纳森·卡勒的《文学理论入门》集中呈现了西方文学理论的最新发展,对各种理论进行介绍和创造性的阐释,针对理论和文学发出自己独特的声音。 Since the late 20th century, literary theory has entered the post-theory era. Literature theory has shown a trend of pluralistic development. The theory is frenzied and gradually institutionalized. People are keen on the fields of feminism and psychoanalysis. The theory of literary studies gradually deviates from the characteristics of literature itself. In the 1980s, the “Cultural Studies ”It is aggravating this momentum. Against this background, Jonathan Kalle’s Literary Theory Primer focuses on the latest developments in Western literary theory, introducing and creatively explaining various theories and giving his own unique voices to the theory and literature.