@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt1npkg4.5, ISBN = {9780300180831}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1npkg4.5}, abstract = {In the first lecture we discussed the reasons why literary theory in the twentieth century is shadowed by skepticism, but as we were talking about that we actually introduced another issue that isn’t quite the same as skepticism—namely,determinism. In the course of intellectual history, we said, first you encounter concern about the distance between the perceiver and the perceived, a concern that gives rise to skepticism about whether we can know things as they really are. But then as an outgrowth of this concern in figures like Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, you get the further question, not just}, bookauthor = {PAUL H. FRY}, booktitle = {Theory of Literature}, pages = {12--24}, publisher = {Yale University Press}, title = {Introduction Continued: Theory and Functionalization}, year = {2012} }