Literary Criticism and Its Caricatures A new book defends the political power of the critic. It falls short. The Review | Essay. By Justin Sider February 8, 2023.

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.

A very interesting piece by Prof. Thomas Balazs in Quillette. An excerpt: When ChatGPT can analyse Hamlet as well as any grad student, we might reasonably ask, "What is the point of writing papers ...

Roland Barthes’ notion that the author is dead has been incredibly influential, though it was not as original or ...

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Even Aristotle, who could be said to have launched literary criticism, set forth the precepts of tragedy by empirically studying the indelible examples of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.

The $30,000 prize is administered by the Iowa Writers’ Workshop on behalf of the estate of Truman Capote and is the largest annual cash prize for English-language literary criticism, according to the ...

I’m writing to share the link to a website that I just created, titled Libertarian Literary and Media Criticism: ...

Literary praise Notwithstanding the value of literary criticism, there’s still a lot to be desired with literary praise. In April 2014, I was hosted on Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) by ...

B.R. Manjunath discusses Marxist literary criticism emphasizing class struggle, historical approach, and importance of content in literature.