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” — ...

A s a precocious child in the early 1940s, the American philosopher Richard Rorty became a connoisseur of exotic flowers. His passion sent him hunting for wild orchids in the mountains of northwestern ...

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?

The chair of this year’s Man Booker Prize, and the editor of the Times Literary Supplement, does not like all The chair of this year’s Man Booker Prize, and the editor of the Times Literary Supplement ...

A leading voice in Hindi literary criticism and a long-time functionary of the Progressive Writers’ Association, Yadav was ...

TS Eliot said that the function of literary criticism is “the common pursuit of true judgment.” In other words, literary criticism is all about telling you whether a work is good or bad, and why. This ...

Rakesh VedaIt is deeply saddening that the eminent Hindi literary critic, thinker, and public intellectual Virendra Yadav is ...

Hayden White, a prominent name in the historiography and philosophy of history of the second half of the 20th century, relying on the use of ‘narrativity’, passed away recently Nasir Abbas Nayyar’s ...

Comparative Literature Studies publishes comparative critical essays that range across the rich traditions of Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America, and that examine the literary relations ...

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 ...