She encourages opposition to what some have feared and others have celebrated as “the end of theory.” Charles Nelson’s essay grows out of years of teaching critical theory in a literature department and interdisciplinary team teaching with Caviness at Tufts, as well as more recent collaboration with her in research and writing. He first explains the background and genesis of the triangulation model in literary theory, and, exploring texts and images from the Sachsenspiegel on which their current collaborative research is based, employs speech act theory (a historically current critical theory, the right leg of the triangle) to analyze the.
