Literary Criticism

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

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  An Incomplete Eloquence

  In his latest book, Renaissance scholar Stephen Orgel investigates what notes in the margins of books tell us about early modern existence.

  Dustin IllingworthJun 27, 2016

  • Literary Criticism

  • Nonfiction

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  Multilingual Wordsmiths, Part 6: Don Bartlett on Bringing Us Karl Ove Knausgaard

  "You are originating when you translate; [...] you’re co-writing, you’re creating something in English from another language, it’s a creative act."

  Liesl SchillingerJun 22, 2016

  • Literary Criticism

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  Multilingual Wordsmiths, Part 5: Jamey Gambrell, In and Out of Russia

  "By reading literature in translation, we become citizens of the world."

  Liesl SchillingerJun 15, 2016

  • Literary Criticism

• The Player Kings: On Shakespeare’s Henriad

  The Henriad is William Shakespeare’s finest achievement as a political writer.

  Guy Patrick CunninghamMay 29, 2016

  • Literary Criticism

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  Multilingual Wordsmiths, Part 3: Edith Grossman on Reading Spanish and the Pitfalls of Literalism

  "Translations aren’t made with tracing paper — two languages do not fit into the same space at the same time."

  Liesl SchillingerMay 26, 2016

  • Literary Criticism

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  Invisible Shakespeare

  Over the centuries, so many technical rhetorical terms have become their own false cognates that while these terms continue to circulate in every day language, our general awareness of the ars rhetorica seem to be lost.

  Matthew RitgerApr 17, 2016

  • Literary Criticism

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  Type Slowly: Word Processing and Literary Composition

  Dylan HicksApr 14, 2016

  • Literary Criticism

  • Science & Technology

• Running Down a Dream

  An idiosyncratic collection of essays and short fictions considering an array of artistic, intellectual, and cultural celebrities.

  Louis BuryMar 20, 2016

  • Fiction

  • Literary Criticism

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  Imitatio Americana

  "Against Self-Reliance" amends the popular story of a US that gives primary importance to the "sacred self."

  D. Berton EmersonMar 17, 2016

  • History

  • Literary Criticism

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  The Sharp Edge That Finds Us: Edward Mendelson’s “Moral Agents” and the Question “What Is Man?”

  What is man that though art mindful of him?

  Robert L. Kehoe IIIMar 14, 2016

  • Literary Criticism

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  The Puerility of “Purity”: How Franzen’s Latest Novel Rewrites an Edith Wharton Novel You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

  Edith Wharton's "The Children," published in 1928, has a lot in common with Jonathan Franzen's "Purity."

  Sheila LimingMar 11, 2016

  • Fiction

  • Literary Criticism

• The Searcher of Patterns and the Keeper of Things

  Two new books suggest that if this turns out to be a new era in the humanities, it won't be for the reasons we've suspected.

  Christina LuptonMar 5, 2016

  • Literary Criticism