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Sandra Gilbert, literary critic whose 1979 polemic The Madwoman in the Attic became a classic

Sandra Gilbert, pictured, co-wrote the landmark study with Susan Gubar: together they ‘stuck a wedge firmly into the frat house door’ of the western canon, wrote a later critic - Peter Basmajian ...
New Statesman

Do ideas change the world?

Graduating into the pandemic was “confusing and strange”, he says. Edwards did not feel he could be a “StudyTuber” if he was ...
Smith College

Tracing the Roots of a Literary Renaissance

Smith College Professor Michael Thurston uncovers how one influential critic helped shape the early American literary landscape As difficult as it might be to believe today, there wasn’t much support ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Dysfunction of Criticism at the Present Time

“C riticism” is a curiously protean word. In academic discourse, as in ordinary speech, it can refer simply to the act of appraisal, sometimes with a censorious edge. It’s used to describe reviews, ...
Reuters

German literary critic and Holocaust survivor Reich-Ranicki dead at 93

BERLIN (Reuters) - Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Germany's best-known literary critic and a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, died on Wednesday aged 93, his publisher said. Reich-Ranicki, a Jew born in Poland in ...
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John Carey, literary scholar and waspish critic who railed against intellectual snobbery

Carey in 2005 at the Edinburgh International Book Festival - Sandy Young/WireImage John Carey, the former Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford who has died aged 91, was one of Britain’s ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Does Literary Criticism Tell Truths About the World?

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” — ...
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The ‘brutal, bloodbath’ reviews of literary ‘it’ girl Lauren Oyler that sent the internet alight

A literary critic famous for her scathing reviews of well-known writers such as Roxane Gay and Sally Rooney has had a taste of her own medicine after her latest book got completely scorched in a viral ...
Washington Examiner

Literary criticism above social media

The literary-critical marketplace now suffers social media as a necessary side street at the very least, if not a central forum. As a result, it has adopted some of the latter’s methods of preference ...

Publishing tips, poetry and witty takes on classics: 6 of the best Australian literary podcasts

The events where Australian readers have long gathered to hear writers speak about their work are often annual (like ...
The Cornell Daily Sun

Literary Critic, Longtime Yale Professor Harold Bloom ’51 Dies, Aged 89

Harold Bloom ‘51, an English professor at Yale University and literary critic, died at the age of 89 on Oct. 14 in New Haven. He taught his last class at Yale University on Oct. 10. Born in East Bronx ...