La teoría literaria latinoamericana
My paper aims at answering if there is such a thing as a Latin-American literary theory. So, I first review the concept of theory to pinpoint how it can be linked to the literary. Afterwards, I reflect on the ways theory, criticism, and methodology are related to the three concepts criticism is based on: author, work, and reader. I finally differentiate two areas. The first one is comprised by the theories that would eventually develop into anthropological philosophies and that bring about a pre-textual under* Profesor-Investigador del Departamento de Humanidades de la UAM-Azcapotzalco.