Any #litcrit / #littheory people help me with some lingo? I'm vaguely aware of pretty deep critiques of "close reading" over the past 20 years or so, but not really up on all the ins and outs, since it's not really my thang. In this work I'm doing right now with Thoreau, one big part of what I'm doing a detailed and minute reading of a couple of texts, but I don't want to get sucked up unintentionally into something that is beside or orthogonal to what I'm doing and/or I want to avoid pitfalls in my own method. Thoughts appreciated.

My wife recently started a youtube channel where she shall be deep-diving into a lot of Tolkien related discourse.

The first video is up and goes into depth about the queer fandom.

https://youtu.be/dUoJPDbIXts

#tolkien #lordOfTheRings #LOTR #discourse #fantasy #fiction #fandom #respectthelore #litTheory

Does anyone have any suggestions for podcasts focusing on contemporary literary theory? @litstudies #littheory #LitStudies