Literary criticism

Unvarnished ‘truth’ in literature is of course only relative to the position of the speaker and often used as a bludgeoning tool.

One of the high points of my life was the first time I held my very own book in my…

Joseph North’s Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History begins with the premise that ‘very few people … start reading a…

‘The first question to ask of the Craven phenomenon is not “why?” but “how?”‘ Critic Watch on performative criticism.

Ezra Pound was always an extraordinary figure on the landscape of modern literature. What was it Yeats said? More deliberate…

Can we separate the authority of the authored text from that of the critic whose skill is to establish credibility by providing reasoning for her appraisal?

‘is this book worth reading? A book review—while it can be many things—is not really a review unless it offers some form of explicit or implicit evaluation in a way that meaningfully answers this question.’

After the selected emails of Barry Spurr were leaked to the media, his expulsion from academia was violent and abrupt….