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 ...

Anyone who has ever studied English literature at school must have – at one point or another - pulled their hair out in despair to ask, why, why must we study literary criticism? Why is it important?

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, ...

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” — ...

After the so-called “end of the great narratives” – according to someone synonymous with the sunset of modernity – the theoretical frameworks founded on the concept of totality have given way to a ...

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“The good critic,” wrote Anatole France, “is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.” Even during its golden age, in the late 19th century, the Impressionist criticism that ...

Sanya by Oyin Olugbile won the 2025 Nigeria Prize for Literature for its bold retelling of Yoruba mythology, portraying Sango ...