I WANT to talk about the historical interpretation of literature — that is, about the interpretation of literature in its social, economic, and political aspects. To begin with, it will be worth while ...

J onathan Kramnick’s book Criticism and Truth is more modest than its title suggests. Essentially an apologia for the nuts-and-bolts work of literary studies, it is best described not as “ambitious” — ...

In 1966, Roland Barthes published a short book—a pamphlet, really—called Criticism and Truth, in response to Raymond Picard, a distinguished professor and the biographer of the French classical ...

One of the momentous developments in criticism in the past two decades has been the revival of the historical method as a way of studying literature, the arts, and the world of ideas. Scholars who ...

The chair of this year’s Man Booker Prize, and the editor of the Times Literary Supplement, does not like all The chair of this year’s Man Booker Prize, and the editor of the Times Literary Supplement ...

Sometime during the early days of September, 1919, T. S. Eliot—just thirty years old and working as a clerk in the foreign-exchange division of Lloyds Bank in London—sat down and wrote his manifesto ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The official publication of the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies, Antipodes is published in June and December ...

Back in 1991, a youngish novelist named Nicholson Baker decided to write a book about his favorite author, John Updike. The result, “U and I,” was an odd and enchanting mixture of hero worship, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The official publication of the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies, Antipodes is published in June and December ...