I have a vivid memory of one of my first meaningful failures as a high school English teacher. I was convinced I could recreate the same kind of inspirational experience I had experienced in the ...

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” — ...

Literary criticism once had an outsize reach, influencing the terms and concepts of disciplines like art and legal studies. With it came an outsize ego. During the 1970s and 80s, the heyday of ...

Writing has literally changed the course of human history. The relationship between language and script is profoundly influenced by political, cultural, economic, social and historical forces, which ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Standing in the way of a grammatical investigation of Sumerian based on the literary texts from the OB period is the problem of the myriads of ...

Alex Bacalja is affiliated with the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English, and is Victoria's delegate to the Australian Association for the Teaching of English. Debates about what books ...