Dr. Harvey Shapiro of Boston is a familiar face in the academic circle. He has many fields of interest, one of them being literary theory. He explains what this is in today’s blog. At the most basic level, literary theory is a result of people’s desires to understand what they are reading. In a sense, literary theory is a diverse set of lenses through which we can see texts. Most critics have also brought this to the realm of arts and culture. - Harvey Shapiro Boston