A Blog About Books and Reading
A Blog About Books and Reading
The author for the most part eschews theory, opting instead to read the works through a lens of discursive and biographical criticism.
A reader like Brand, we understand, is someone who has never felt represented in the literature presented to her as the great and enduring work of the past.
It would be salutary if writers addressing the genre would cease treating it as though it has been relevant for only the past ten or twenty years.
Instead of complaining that there is no books coverage in Canada today, it would be salutary if people would consume what is available.
One of Lamey's qualities in this volume is a willingness to entertain multiple sides of a debate.
The reappearance of Bookforum provides an interesting test case in whether it really is possible to sustain a viable vehicle for literary criticism.
Self's surpassing hauteur and in-your-face grandiosity have a propulsive charm in themselves
Today, Arnold's ideas seem deeply unfashionable. They also seem pressingly relevant.
John Guillory is best known for his 1993 book Cultural Capital. That book, which was published at the height of...
"Never trust a storyteller," Gottschall warns, although he also points out that we do, all the time, and it's probably inevitable.