Dear All,
I'm just finishing up a project with a student on her way to grad
school, and the idea is to get her oriented on graduate study (literary
studies generally, and English Renaissance in particular). She asked an
interesting question yesterday, which was, where are we currently? When
I was at her stage in 1992, we all had a pretty clear idea of where the
momentum was in literary scholarship, even though there were clearly
differing schools and opinions -- all scholarship seemed to be
positioned in one way or another with regard to the New Historicism. So
I thought I'd turn the question out to the group: Is there a collective
sense that we are operating in a particular phase of criticism -- either
as Spenserians, Sidneyans, or more generally?
All the best,
Michael
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