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Terry Eagleton: Modern Literary Criticism Ii

Literary criticism, like the economy, is under- going a quiet but protracted crisis. One symptom of that crisis has been acute over- production: a torrential flood of critical......

Christopher Booker On Mcluhan

Once upon a time there was an obscure Canadian professor of English Literature named Marshall McLuhan. He was a romantic-minded Catholic, much influenced by Chesterton, Leavis......