Theories and theorists ...

... Dave Lull sends along:

... French Theory in America, Part Two.

... and A Puzzling Figure in Literary Criticism Is Suddenly Central.

If memory serves, and apropos of nothing in particular, Ortega y Gassett observes somewhere that the difference between a a mere theorizer and a genuine theorist is that the former entertains all sorts of theories while the latter is focused on only one.