Literary studies is in the doldrums. Wave after wave of revisionism has washed over literature departments in the last few decades, bringing a mind-spinning miscellany of new methods and critical ...

T he digital humanities disappeared right when we needed it most. The last real fight about “DH” happened in 2019. In that year, the literary scholar Nan Z. Da published an audit of “computational ...

The "Wittgenstein Monument" in Skjolden, Norway, erected near the philosopher's hut in 2018 by artists Sebastian Kjølaas, Marianne Bredesen, and Siri Hjorth. (via “§4.003 Most questions and ...

To understand some of the puzzling trends in recent American literature, it helps to have a basic knowledge of the so-called “post-structuralist” theory that took hold in U.S. English departments in ...

Fredric Jameson, who held sway as one of the world's leading literary theorists for over 40 years, bringing his brand of rigorous, incisive Marxist criticism to topics as broad as German opera, sci-fi ...

Fredric Jameson, who died this week at age 90, was one of the last high theorists still standing. A key figure in the development of Marxist criticism, postmodernism and cultural theory, his works ...