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Nowadays, one of the most fundamental and controversial theoretical discussions in literary criticism is to evade meta-theory in literary practices. The prominent thinkers in this area, known as neo-pragmatists, include Terry Eagleton, Stanley Fish, Steven Knapp, and Walter Benn Michaels who emphasize that the course of theory and criticism has now been diverted from its original aim of advancing social justice in the early eighteenth century and has now become a fetish that solidifies and reproduces the hierarchical society. In 1980s, we witnessed the acme of theoretical discussions and practices in literary studies; yet, in this decade, anti-theory and anti-theoretical discussions come to their acme, knowing Knapp and Michaels’ ideas as one of their key manifestos. Knapp and Michaels believe that theoretical discussions have been the result of the separation of such inseparable terms as meaning-intention, language-speech acts, and theory-practice, leading to “theoretical enterprise.” These two critics argue that since authorial discussions are “empirical” issues, theoretical responses to them do not solve the problem; rather, they are merely a “theoretical temptation.” In this article, following a concise survey of thinkers in the realm of theory and related concepts, in particular anti-theory, meta-theory, and post-theory, we have attempted to explore the two’s ideas, review reactions to them and the errors in their argument, and finally investigate what message Knapp and Michaels’ article can have for our country’s literary society.

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The constructive role of women in creating moral and emotional bonds of family isundeniable; but this goal is achieved only in a calm and secure environment away from violence. Today, there is a lot of evidence of domestic violence against women. The aim of the present study is to present the sociological model of lived experience in the socio-cultural fields of violence against women (with a Grand Theory approach). The present research method is quantitative and applied survey type. The statistical population is 314 women living in Tehran who were selected by the random sampling method. Data obtained from in-depth interviews were analyzed using Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Pearson correlation coefficient and multivariate regression test using SPSS software. The results showed that there was a negative and inverse relationship between sociological factors of lived experience (economic factors, social factors, cultural factors, family factors, religious factors) and among the factors; Underlying factors had a positive and significant relationship with violence against women.