Graham Hough looks at a collection of American essays which allege a crisis in criticism, and ponders the long history of debate on literary education
Graham Hough, 17 October 1985
Criticism in the University
edited by Gerald Graff and Reginald Gibbons.
Northwestern, 234 pp., £29.95, September 1985,0 8101 0670 1 Show More
edited by Gerald Graff and Reginald Gibbons.
Northwestern, 234 pp., £29.95, September 1985,
“... The state of chronic hypochondria in which literary education subsists shows no sign of abating. Indeed, in some quarters it is entering an acute phase. Regular and formerly healthful activities lose their zest, attacked by morbid depression of spirits. The milder forms of therapy effect little improvement, and a battery of fantastic remedies is brought to bear, which in spite of energetic promotion do not seem able to establish themselves ... ”
