Introduction

Dr G. S. Jayasree
09-08-2022

Theory, like poverty or sexuality, cannot be abstracted from society. It is at once a product and a signifier of the world we live in. I was introduced to the complexities of Theory while struggling with my doctoral research in the late eighties, but my real tryst with Theory came when I introduced a paper on Modern Literary Theory for the postgraduate students at the Institute of English,