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The function of criticismby Denis Dnoghue On T. S. Eliot’s essay on the evaluation of literature.The New Criterion April, 2017 T. S. Eliot’s essay “The Function of Criticism” (1923) is a work of angry intelligence: it reads as if it were written under duress. Apparently Eliot would prefer to be writing about anything else, or to be silent. He accepts that criticism inc..

Woman is a ConstructAngelica FreitasTranslated from the Portuguese by Hilary Kapalan woman is a construct she must be woman is basically meant to be a residential complex all the same all plastered over just in different colors i in particular am a woman with exposed bricks at social gatherings i tend to be the worst dressed i say i’m a journalist (woman is a construct full o..

Jane Austen: Galloping girl Perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem Tory or radical, prude or saucepot—there have been many Jane Austens down the ages. But her genius lies in dramatising the thrilling risks of living at breakneck speed by Freya Johnston / March 13, 2017 / Published in April 2017 issue of Prospect Magazine ©Duncan1890/Getty Images Jane..

What Orwell discovered in the North Perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem All Roads lead from Wigan by Stephen IngleProspect / March 2, 2017 / ©BNUJ “Mr. Orwell must have wasted a lot of energy trying to be a novelist. I think I must have read three or four novels by him and the only impression these dreary books left on me was that nature didn’t inte..

Kafka: a life beyond literature Alexander Adams Spiked Review February 2017 There are few writers as highly regarded as Franz Kafka (1883-1924). Even people who have not read Kafka understand his blend of the sinister and absurd. Despite the reputation of being a high-brow, intellectual author, Kafka wrote bewitching tales in clear prose. Indeed, his stories are often short an..

Revenge of the maths mobWhy literature is the ultimate big-data challengeIn a few decades, statistical analysis of literature has gone from crackpot theorising to cutting edge research ProsperoMar 1st 2017by J.W.S.W. The Economist NUMBER-crunching literary criticism was the butt of an academic in-joke in “Arcadia” (1993), Tom Stoppard’s cerebral play. Bernard Nightingale,..

Interview ‘무정’ 탄생 100주년 기념 | 이광수 연구자 하타노 세쓰코 “춘원의 자필 시집(‘내 노래’), 일본에 있어 애석” 이혜민 | 동아일보 출판국 디지털미디어팀 기자 behappy@donga.com 신동아 2017년 02월 호 2017년 02월 호 ● ‘무정’ 읽은 뒤 반평생 춘원 연구 ● 일본인 최초로 춘원 평전..

How Camus and Sartre split up over the question of how to be free Sam Dresser Aeon, Jan. 2017 Sam Dresser is an editor at Aeon. He lives in New York City. Edited by Brigid Hains Albert Camus by Cecil Beaton for Vogue in 1946. Photo by Getty They were an odd pair. Albert Camus was French Algerian, a pied-noir born into poverty who effortlessly charmed with his Bogart-esque feat..

America's Shakespeare Algis Valiunas FROM ISSUE NUMBER 30 ~ WINTER 2017 The National Affairs The past year has marked the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, and in the United States aficionados have observed the occasion as though the Master was a most beloved native son. The year-long celebration has demonstrated a distinctively American blend of quality an..

Cash for Words: A Brief History of Writing for Money Money taints everything, why not writing too? By Colin Dickey January 11, 2017 Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin, by Ilia Efimovich Repin, 1884.The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Humanities Fund Inc., 1972. Charles Dickens was paid by the word. This was junior high, we were reading A Tale of Two Cities, and this fact, when ..