Critical Credos

ns 71-72 | Winter/Spring 2009

Our precarious times seem a good moment for critics to think about what they believe and why they do criticism. The new issue of minnesota review features nineteen essays by young, old, and in-between critics about what they do and where they think criticism should go.

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Lennard J. Davis

Lennard J. Davis is a Professor of English, Disability Studies, and Medical Humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he heads Project Biocultures. His forthcoming books are Obsession: The Biography of a Disease and The Country of Lost Children: A Natural History of Artificial Insemination.

Poetry | Fiction | Interviews & Essays | Revaluations | Surveying the Field

Revaluations

• Edward Said's Battle for Humanism
  Appears in: ns 68: Contemporary Middle Eastern Literature & the "Being at Work" Poetry Challenge

MR BOOKS

Critics at Work
ed. Jeffrey J. Williams.

Critics at Work offers a guided tour through the central, sometimes confusing and frequently controversial developments in contemporary literary and cultural criticism. The tour guides, however, are not distant observers but have been primary participants in those developments, and they report on theory, cultural studies, the literary canon, the recent focus on race, sexuality, and other identities, the state of the univerisity, and the role of the intellectual. Throughout, they consider the not always easy negotiation of politics and culture.

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