#literary-criticism

#literary-criticism

That Cummins' Puerto Rican grandmother should come into this discussion seems very much a product of the heated cultural moment into which American Dirt was published.

Dr. Samuel Johnson argues that the barbaric violence in 'Titus Andronicus' is so extreme it cannot be tolerated by any audience, reflecting its lasting negative reception.

At one moment, she articulates her intensifying boredom with an older fling in ruthless, unflappable clarity; the next, she brings the reader inside the lonely humiliation of screaming in public after a groping.

Genres are the Sirens of literary criticism. They seem friendly and alluring, but they are dangerously elusive shape-shifters. You really have to lash yourself to the mast.