Lit Crit 2007

[David Morris]

The home page apologizes for their site snags.  It took a long time,
but it finally appeared for me.  But don't complain about him before
you read him.  This is his re-review of the state of contemporary
literature 25 years after his first review for this magazine.
Personally, what I've seen of PoMo LitCrit is unintelligible insider
lingo and useless.  So I was not inclined to dislike him.

David Morris

On 9/19/07, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/19/07, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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."
>
> The Old Crysmearion page won't come up for me, which cranky old man of
> letters is this there?  And does he even bother to give examples, much
> less counterexamples?
>