Dear list

 

Diane wrote: Don't you think a theory is a de facto agenda?

 

Traditionally a theory is simply a predictive expression of an observed pattern.  I think theories can become agendas when their observed pattern has been conditioned by faith and/or ideology.

 

To the extent that literary theories are conditioned by faith and/or ideology they then are agendas.

 

Rick Seddon

Portales, NM