Literary Criticism

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

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  Act Naturally: Pretentiousness, Coolness, and Culture

  Barrett Swanson reads two new books on the presentation of the self.

  Barrett SwansonAug 15, 2016

  • Literary Criticism

  • Philosophy & Religion

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  Like a Poem: On Ben Lerner’s “The Hatred of Poetry”

  Brandon Kreitler on Ben Lerner's "The Hatred of Poetry".

  Brandon KreitlerJul 22, 2016

  • Literary Criticism

  • Poetry

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  Damned Poetry: On Ben Lerner’s “The Hatred of Poetry"

  Becca Rothfeld on Ben Lerner's "The Hatred of Poetry".

  Becca RothfeldJul 22, 2016

  • Literary Criticism

  • Poetry

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  The Hangman of Critique

  Are we in the Postcritical Age?

  Lee KonstantinouJul 17, 2016

  • Literary Criticism

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  The Nomadic Humanities

  A proposal for a new paradigm: the Nomadic Humanities.

  Catharine R. StimpsonJul 12, 2016

  • Cultural Studies

  • Literary Criticism

  • Philosophy & Religion

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  Death by Prefix? The Paradoxical Life of Modernist Studies

  What is modernism, anyway?

  Gayle RogersJul 3, 2016

  • Literary Criticism

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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