A Different Order of Difficulty: Literature after Wittgenstein

John Lurz is an associate professor in the English Department at Tufts University, where he teaches courses in 20th-century British Literature as well as literary theory. He published The Death of the Book: Modernist Novels and the Time of Reading in 2016, and he is currently working on a book entitled The Barthes Fantastic: Literature, Criticism, and the Practice of Language.

John Lurz

What Do You Do with a BA in English?

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

John Lurz is an associate professor in the English Department at Tufts University, where he teaches courses in 20th-century British Literature as well as literary theory. He published The Death of the Book: Modernist Novels and the Time of Reading in 2016, and he is currently working on a book entitled The Barthes Fantastic: Literature, Criticism, and the Practice of Language.