CRITICAL MASS

The Death of Literary Studies

By EVAN R. GOLDSTEIN

Literary studies is "suffering from an epochal loss of confidence," declares William Deresiewicz in a recent article in The Nation. Noting that there is "no better way to take the … temperature" of the field than by glancing through the Modern Language Association's Job Information List, he does just that. Deresiewicz,...

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