Of the character sketches that the English satirist Samuel Butler wrote in the mid-seventeenth century—among them “A Degenerate Noble,” “A Huffing Courtier,” “A Small Poet,” and “A Romance Writer”—the ...

“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 ...

Provides a basic skills course designed to equip students to handle the English major. Emphasizes critical writing and the acquisition of basic techniques and vocabulary of literary criticism through ...

How modern literary criticism came to be – with a little help from TS Eliot, FR Leavis, Raymond Williams and others In a famous experiment from the late 1920s, IA Richards set his Cambridge students ...

Mary Poovey, a professor of English and director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge at New York University, examines a parallel between the foundations of contemporary ...

About a year into my graduate education in English literature, I began to have the vague impression that something wasn't right. Both my peers and most of the faculty, I felt, valued literature at ...