Teaching Theory

1. Introduction: The History and Present Condition of Theory — A Brief Account
Richard Bradford

2. Teaching Theory
Vincent B. Leitch

3. The Resistance to History: Teaching in the Present
Andrew Hadfield

4. The Attractions of Theory
Jill Bihan

5. Syntactics — Semantics — Pragmatics (Still Having One’s Cake?)
Leona Toker

6. The Motivation of Literary Theory: From National Culture to World Literature
Stephen Shapiro

7. Marketing Theory: An Overview of Theory Guides
Andrew James

8. From Theory to Practice: Literary Studies in the Classroom
Katherine Byrne

9. At Home in theory? Teaching One’s Way Through the Theory at Home
Madelena Gonzalez

10. Reading by Recipe: Postcolonial Theory and the Practice of Reading
Neil Murphy

11. Do I Hate Theory?
Richard Bradford

Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, Higher Education, Teaching and Teacher Education