Something we’ve been grappling with all term, how to conduct new form of literary analysis, seems to extend to outside the academic sphere. I read this article today where an ordinary culture website has conducted textual analysis on Harry Potter, The Hunger Games and Twilight, with some interesting results. Is textual analysis already so institutionalized that it is irrelevant for academia? Is a method passe if its used in a public sphere?

Just some food for thought.

The link: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2013/11/hunger_games_catching_fire_a_textual_analysis_of_suzanne_collins_novels.html