Lit Crit 2007

[David Morris]

http://newcriterion.com:81/archives/26/09/the-literary-life-at-25/

"Theory in academic literary criticism seems to be playing itself out
by the sheer force of its deep inner uselessness. Not a single
significant book, nor any dazzling essays that I know of, have been
produced in American literary criticism that are owing to their
author's adaptation of one or another kind of critical theory,
imported or domestic, from deconstruction to queer theory. Such stuff
continues to be taught, as it was taught to the people now teaching it
and who themselves consequently know little else to teach. But one
senses that the day of the predominance of theory in English
departments is coming to a close: the fever has abated, the flame is
guttering. Derrida and Foucault are no longer fighting but
yawn-inducing words."