Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies

Elizabeth S. Anker teaches in the Law School and Department of Literatures in English at Cornell. Her most recent book is On Paradox: The Claims of Theory (2022). She’s currently writing about the decision-making of the Roberts Court and how the contemporary judicial Right borrows from the Left.

Elizabeth S. Anker

A Reactionary Turn in Literary Studies: On Jonathan Kramnick’s “Criticism and Truth”

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

Elizabeth S. Anker teaches in the Law School and Department of Literatures in English at Cornell. Her most recent book is On Paradox: The Claims of Theory (2022). She’s currently writing about the decision-making of the Roberts Court and how the contemporary judicial Right borrows from the Left.

Elizabeth S. Anker

Articles

A Reactionary Turn in Literary Studies: On Jonathan Kramnick’s “Criticism and Truth”