Word: lit-crit
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...Zohar, the wellspring of Jewish mysticism, or Cabala. He will do nine more volumes, all rendered from the Zohar's original Aramaic. The work has received ecstatic advance reviews ("A superbly fashioned translation and a commentary that opens up the Zohar to the English-speaking world," blurbed lit-crit colossus Harold Bloom), and two weeks ago it won a $10,000 Koret Jewish Book Award for "monumental contribution to the history of Jewish thought." Beneath the praise runs an undercurrent of awe that someone was crazy enough to take...
According to the list of members posted on the Academy’s website, Harvard has upwards of 350 members, while Yale has about 150. However, one of Yale’s members is lit-crit luminary Harold Bloom, who is worth about 200, thereby evening the score—and giving Yale a huge advantage in the humanities...
It’s been almost 40 years since “Against Interpretation’’ became an iconic text in faddish counteracademic lit-crit, and the big question is how, or why, Sontag has managed to keep a straight face while her peers break loose into genre criticism, hip-hop studies and other stereotypically un-Sontagian fields. Sontag herself has stayed the course, a true cultural diehard, and barely offers a nod of recognition to anything but the beaux-est of beaux-arts. To see the films she mentions you have to go an art house...
...heterosexuality per se, calling it a "unique two-in-one flesh communion" or invoking, as did Salient publisher Bronwen C. McShea '02, the union of Christ and His Church. Looking for good metaphors is a silly way to go about moral reasoning, and with legions of gender theorists and lit-crit folks in the wings, it seems inevitable that equally good metaphors will eventually crop up on the other side. Absent some new arguments on campus--and I'd be delighted to read them--the only real attack seems to be that homosexuality is unnerving. I'll admit it: homosexual...
...Other members of this new generation of scholars soon arrived. Harvard, which had been slow to warm to "lit-crit," had succumbed to the trends...