/lit/ - Literature

In your opinion /lit/, what theory of literature offers the most productive tools with which to critically evaluate texts?

Myself, I am inclined to treat theories that offer the critic more more explicitly literary concepts and tools with which to analyse a text, such as russian formalism, literary structuralism and narratology. All of which have their problems of course, but at least they're not infected with chronic and overt ideological pre-occupation (I don't disagree that they're not on some level, of course), the likes of which I see in marxist theory, feminist, psychoanalytic and post-colonial theory. Not so sure about deconstruction, on the one hand it seems like it promotes a pretty rigorous metholodogy but on the other hand I've never seen an application of it that has thoroughly impressed me.

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>There were a couple of weeks there where you were funny. What happened to that?

it comes and goes