By the early 1990s, the popularity of "theory" as a subject of interest by itself was declining slightly (along with job openings for pure "theorists") even as the texts of literary theory were incorporated into the study of almost all literature.
到了1990年代初期，「理論」本身作為一種興趣對象的受歡迎程度漸漸衰退（連帶著純粹「理論學者」的工作機會也是），即使文學理論文本已經被編入幾乎所有的文學研究當中。