填空题 The fact this term finds its way into pop culture suggests how pervasive the mind-set of literary theory has become in our time. I have even heard a basketball coach say that his team had learned to deconstruct a zone defense. Literary theory has permeated our thinking to the point that it has defined for our times how discourse about literature, as well as about culture in general, shall proceed. Literary theory has arrived, and no student of literature can afford not to come to terms with it.