Our enjoyment of literature and fiction is rooted in theory of mind: the cognitive ability to attribute mental states ...

The esteemed literary theorist, who died on Sunday at 90, helped us think about postmodernism and a dizzying array of other subjects. Fredric Jameson, the Marxist literary theorist who died on Sunday ...

T he digital humanities disappeared right when we needed it most. The last real fight about “DH” happened in 2019. In that year, the literary scholar Nan Z. Da published an audit of “computational ...

To understand some of the puzzling trends in recent American literature, it helps to have a basic knowledge of the so-called “post-structuralist” theory that took hold in U.S. English departments in ...

Fredric Jameson, who died this week at age 90, was one of the last high theorists still standing. A key figure in the development of Marxist criticism, postmodernism and cultural theory, his works ...