The Rebirth of American Literary Theory and Criticism: Scholars Discuss Intellectual Origins and Turning Points

The interviewees of this volume fall into three groups: the main players who brought about the rise of theory (Fish, Gallop, Spivak, Bhabha); a younger group of post—theorists (Bérubé, Dimock, Nealon, Warren); the anti—critique theorists (Felski); and new order theorists (Puchner, Wolfe). They discuss elemental questions, such as trying to grasp what was logic and what was rhetoric; trying to see down the road while fog and turmoil held visibility to arm’s length; and trying to pick legible...