Judith Ryan
American literary scholar and Harvard professor of German and comparative literature, known for work on modernism, Rilke, and the intersections of early psychology and literature.
Books
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1. The Novel After Theory
This study argues that the much-discussed “end of theory” has not diminished theory’s relevance to fiction; instead, contemporary novelists absorb and transform ideas from psychoanalysis, narratology, postcolonial and gender studies, and ethics into their narrative practices. Through close readings of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century works, it shows how novels test theoretical claims about subjectivity, memory, history, and representation while rethinking realism and self-reflexive techniques. The result is a portrait of a genre revitalized by critical concepts, turning them into engines for storytelling and reflection.
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