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Use when targeting New Literary History or deciding whether an essay on the theory, history, and method of literary study fits this venue. Encodes the journal's theory-of-literature fit, the conceptual-question bar, methodological-reflexivity expectations, house style and double-blind norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
When to use
- fit/framing check for New Literary History
- re-framing reading-driven pieces around theoretical questions
- choosing between New Literary History and other venues
- checking theory-of-literature bar and desk-reject heuristics
- theory of literature and interpretation
- reflection on critical methods and their histories
- conceptual essays rethinking literary categories
- histories of criticism bearing on present method
When not to use
- close reading without a conceptual question
- survey of a critical school
- readings for their own sake
- antiquarian history of criticism
- broad-readership interpretive essays
- agenda-setting theory across the arts and humanities
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