Introductory Post

Hey, it's me, Erica.

This blog is being maintained for academic purposes. I'm not new to blogging, but the subject this blog will be concentrating on (theory) is somewhat new to me. What's appealing about blogging on such an intimidating subject is that the writing style is much more informal; it's a place to keep bits and pieces of thoughts and ideas which can be referred back to and expanded on.

I'm interested in learning about theory as an object and instrument of study. I've interpreted texts to some extent in other classes but have never studied the study of literary and cultural texts. So far, it appears that there is no definite right or wrong way to study texts or interpret what meanings they may or may not be trying to convey.

I'm very excited to learn about all the different schools of literary and cultural theory because it seems like it will be a challenge for me. I'm also interested to find out if theory will address not only interpretation of texts, but what theorists determine is a text.