Invented Countertraditions: Theory’s Crisis and Ghosts

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  • Pedro Henrique Trindade Kalil Auad Universidade Federal de Alagoas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.29.3.79-96

Keywords:

literary theory, crisis, ghosts, translation, invented traditions

Abstract

Departing from the notion of invented traditions, coined by Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, this article reflects about the history of Literature Theory and its crisis that evolves mainly from the 1980s. In this sense, we focus on the work of three authors who weigh in on these subjects, namely, Terry Eagleton, Vincent B. Leitch, and Paul H. Fry. From this, we considered the postulates of the Theory crisis, its contradictions and how the discourse on the theoretical crisis is a discourse not only interested, but also centered in a specific space and represents only certain theoretical models. Thus, we realize that the Theory is not over, and that it remains haunted by ghosts, whose concept was extracted from Jacques Derrida’s perspective.

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Pedro Henrique Trindade Kalil Auad, Universidade Federal de Alagoas

Possui graduação em Letras (2007), mestrado em Teoria da Literatura (2010) e doutorado em Teoria da Literatura e Literatura Comparada (2014) pela Faculdade de Letras da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Atualmente é professor visitante do PPGLL da FALE/UFAL. Trabalha principalmente com os seguintes temas: teoria literária, teoria do cinema, teoria feminista, teatro, estruturalismo, pós-estruturalismo, Samuel Beckett e Chris Marker.

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2019-09-30

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Auad, P. H. T. K. (2019). Invented Countertraditions: Theory’s Crisis and Ghosts. Aletria: Revista De Estudos De Literatura, 29(3), 79–96. https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.29.3.79-96

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Vol. 29 No. 3 (2019): Teoria e Crítica Literária no Tempo Presente

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Dossier Literary theory and criticism in presente time

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