Devitt, R. Toward a foucauldian literary criticism (2021) Poetics Today, 42 (4), pp. 471-498. DOI: 10.1215/03335372-9356809 Abstract The article argues for the renewed relevance of Foucault’s early essays on literature, written throughout the 1960s, given a return to anthropological reflection in so much literary theory today (especially through affect theory and “new” phenomenologies—both of which …