Literary theorists may long for, but have never actually possessed, such power and influence.

Literary theorists study the use of language in literature.

In addition to being a novelist and a translator, he was also a literary theorist.

Imagination also played an important role for Coleridge as a literary theorist.

"I realized I was being trained to be a literary theorist," he said.

Perhaps the basic technique is relying on what the literary theorists call"stock responses.

The most prominent literary theorist in the field is Mark Turner.

Postmodern literary theorists talk about language taking on a life of its own, speaking through the passive pawns called people.

And the leftist politics with which literary theorists have traditionally been associated have taken a beating.

Edward Said was a literary theorist, cultural critic, and political activist for Palestine.

He argues that incremental parsing of sentences needs to be addressed by literary theorists.

Michael Hardt (born 1960) is an American literary theorist and political philosopher.

The literary theorists argued that the literary criticism of the 19th century had not truly seen the text.

As a literary theorist, Chivers believed in divine inspiration.

Among his other dislikes are literary theorists.

The deconstruction of narrative as a natural or unproblematic activity was to be amplified by several other literary theorists.

During the Depression years Freeman did his most influential work as a literary theorist and cultural journalist.

Said, a literary theorist and a public intellectual, died this September in New York, where he lived for most of his life.

Literary theory is a discipline that some literary theorists claim overlaps with the philosophy of language.

Literary theorist Lynda Hart edited and wrote a commentary on each piece.

Literary theorists long ago deemed it vulgar to fixate on niggling questions of plot.

The French literary theorist Roland Barthes called this "the reality effect."

Louis Adrian Montrose is an American literary theorist and academic scholar.

Seán Burke is an Irish literary theorist and novelist.

John Fraser is a critic, literary theorist, and cultural analyst, who has been concerned in a variety of ways with relationships between energy and order.