文学理论公开课 序言笔记

 theory is very often a purely speculative undertaking.its an hypothesis about sth the exact nature of which one needn't necessarily have in view.It's a supposition that whatever the object of theory might be.
theory does exist for the most part to be applied
Lycidas, the Rime of the ancient mariner
Tony the Tow truck
pass it out发下去
reading is complex and its potentially almost unlimited activity
I hope to get accrossed in the course of our varied approahes to
theory resembles philosophy perhaps in this, that it asks fundamental questions and also at times builds systems
totalization完整化
why should this be?
involves a certain skepticism
there seems to be a doubt, a variety of doubts,about the foundation and the basis of our opnions,that pervades theory
 some definitions based on form, circularity, symmetry,economy of form, lack of economy of form, and repetition
whereas most utterances purport to be saying sth true about the actual state of things in the world
hermeneutics诠释学（赫尔墨斯神，交给人类语言的神god Hermes who conveyed language to man,god of communication
of the moment很流行
survey概论
wordsworth says:"Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive"
Literary theory is not concerned with issues of evaluation, concomitant issues of appreciation. they just take these as part of the sense experience
they dwell on question of description,anaylysis and specutlations