Are we past the age of major literary theories?

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It feels like we’ve reached the end of the road when it comes to groundbreaking literary theories - at least in the way structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and postcolonialism once reshaped how we read texts. Most major frameworks seem fully developed, debated, and, in many cases, absorbed into academic and cultural analysis

Is literary theory in a post-theoretical era, where we're just remixing existing paradigms? Or are we simply overdue for the next major shift?

What do you think the next wave of literary theory might look like? Or has theory hit its natural ceiling, and we’re just doing commentary on commentary from here on out?

Curious to hear from people who’ve been thinking about this.

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