Introduction: The history and present condition of theory - a brief account / Richard Bradford -- Teaching theory / Vincent B. Leitch -- The resistance to history: teaching in the present / Andrew Hadfield -- The attractions of theory / Jill Le Bihan -- Syntactics - semantics - pragmatics (still having one's cake?) / Leona Toker -- The motivation of literary theory: from national culture to world literature / Stephen Shapiro -- Marketing theory: an overview of theory guides / Andrew James -- From theory to practice: literary studies in the classroom / Katherine Byrne -- At home in theory? Teaching one's way through the theory at home / Madelena Gonzalez -- Reading by recipe: postcolonial theory and the practice of reading / Neil Murphy -- Do I hate theory? / Richard Bradford

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