The Current in Criticism

Clayton Koelb is an associate professor of German and comparative literature at the University of Chicago. Koelb is the author of Thomas Mann's "Goethe and Tolstoy" Notes and Sources and The Incredulous Reader: Literature and the Function of Disbelief. He has also published many articles and reviews in journals such as Comparative Literature, Genre, Monatshefte, German Quarterly, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, Germanic Review, Modern Language Studies, and PMLA, to name a few. Virgil L. Lokke is professor emeritus of English at Purdue University. On Fulbright appointments, he has taught at major universities in Norway and Finland, where he received awards for excellence in teaching.

"[The Current in Criticism] contains several excellent essays which will be read with pleasure and challenge by literary scholars interested in new directions in critical theory." --Kenneth R. Johnston "As a collection of pieces that reveal current directions in criticism and theory, this collection has many merits. As a group the essays (and the Fish interview) are indeed what the title claims - current. " . . . Virtually every piece has some strength of thought or liveliness of expression to recommend it." --Robert Scholes "As a guide for the perplexed, or as source material for advanced seminar discussion, this book deserves a place high on the list of recommended reading." --Christopher Norris "Whether one agrees or disagrees with any given essay or argument, one will find this collection well worth reading, for it addresses some of the most vital questions currently being debated in theory and criticism." --Dominick LaCapra