An Introduction...

Let me start off by introducing myself, lizzie_spring, as an English Communications major at a liberal arts college located in the lovely city of Boston. As a first time blogger I look forward to new found information and the wide variety of comments that await.

This semester in particular I will be studying more literature to further my knowledge as to what it means to be a literary critic. With that it must be mentioned that I will also be focusing in on "theory" and its impact on literary critics and their analysis of literature.

The different ways in which literature is studied and how those ways came to be are my initial thoughts on "theory". But after registering for a semester long class on the subject I know it can't possibly be that simple. I look forward to learning more specifically about the many different perspectives of theory inclusive of Marxism, structuralism, and feminist criticism. More to follow...