In Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study (The University of Chicago Press, 2022), John Guillory seeks to “be of service to literary study in negotiating its ...

The so-called death of the novel may not be a problem if, as Franco Moretti suggests, there are already too many novels – so many, that actually reading them doesn’t make sense. Mr. Moretti, a ...

Kathleen Kennedy, a medieval English literature expert at the University of Bristol who was not involved in the study, tells New Scientist that the study’s findings “generally support existing ...