S ince the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s, which have not gone away — John Guillory, in his new book Professing Criticism, refers to them as “our domestic forever wars” — opponents of ...

John Guillory’s “Cultural Capital,” published amid the 1990s canon wars, became a classic. In a follow-up, “Professing Criticism,” he takes on his field’s deep funk. By Jennifer ...