Stephen Elliott and Bob Minzesheimer discuss the state of literary criticism. Hosts Kelly Corrigan and Jeffrey Brown are joined by Stephen Elliott, founder of The Rumpus; and Bob Minzesheimer, ...
The scene: a graduate seminar in literature sometime in the eerily becalmed days of the mid-1990s, when for an aspirant to an academic job, the future seemed poised to break in one of two ...
John Guillory’s “Cultural Capital,” published amid the 1990s canon wars, became a classic. In a follow-up, “Professing Criticism,” he takes on his field’s deep funk. By Jennifer Schuessler Thirty ...