Ali Smith's superb new book, Artful, began as a series of talks on comparative literature that were delivered at St. Anne's College, Oxford, in January and February of last year. It must've been one ...

Literary criticism once had an outsize reach, influencing the terms and concepts of disciplines like art and legal studies. With it came an outsize ego. During the 1970s and 80s, the heyday of ...

On Thursday, Feb. 26, the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College presents second lecture in the 2026 Wade Center Hansen Series. Throughout much of the 20th century, the literary establishment ...

Does literature merely reflect the world or actually shape the future? British writer Peter Boxall from Cambridge University answered this question during his lecture, “The Possibility of Literature,” ...

An age has passed ... A collection of the controversial critic’s lectures showcases his distinctive style and astonishing range This is a book of 10 lectures by a literary critic generally considered ...

Criticism had not been an exciting segment in Sinhala literature till focus was drawn to it by Peradeniya critics. They understood the value of the study and criticism of Sinhala Literature and laid ...

“Criticism,” according to Northrop Frye, “is badly in need of an organizing principle, a central hypothesis which, like the theory of evolution in biology, will see the phenomena it deals with as ...

For all the debates that have roiled literature departments over the past 60 years, the history of the discipline itself is a source of surprising consensus. According to the standard narrative, ...