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This volume can claim a special status within the ‘Teaching the New English’ series because its subject is not a branch of the literary canon. It is a way of writing about, or frequently not about, literature. Theory has obtained and maintained a unique status in literary studies. It is neither literature nor in a conventional sense literary criticism, but something that can be both practised and studied in its own right.
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Bradford, R. (2011). Introduction: The History and Present Condition of Theory — A Brief Account. In: Bradford, R. (eds) Teaching Theory. Teaching the New English. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230304727_1
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