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.

Scott McLemee reviews Jonathan Kramnick’s Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies. In 1966, Roland Barthes published a short book—a pamphlet, really—called Criticism and Truth, in response ...

But literary criticism seeks to go further than such self-referential statements of preference. Immanuel Kant pointed out in his Critique of Judgment that aesthetic judgments (of which literary ...

This class provides a survey of the field of literary criticism and theory from Antiquity to the present. Texts are drawn from a range of theoretical schools or movements, including formalism, ...

The Spring 2024 issue of Liberties features an essay, "Curricular Trauma" by Len Gutkin, on the decline in the humanities, with a particular focus on the study of literature.The cause of this ...

“When you celebrate literary criticism, you celebrate the humanities," he said. "The humanities imbue us with a deeper understanding of what it means to be human in this world." Jarrett will accept ...

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 ...

As the year comes to an end, we're taking a look at some of the best writing of 2022. Jeffrey Brown sat down with literary critics Gilbert Cruz of The New York Times and Maureen Corrigan of NPR to ...