The Forms of Criticism
An event in London on April 27th
Dear Daily Themes subscribers,
We are delighted to announce that creativecritical.net will be hosting a symposium on ‘The Forms of Criticism’ at UCL’s Institute of Advanced Studies on Saturday 27th April from 09:30 to 17:00 featuring:
Jonathan Kramnick, Maynard Mack Professor of English, Yale University, author of Criticism and Truth
Ross Wilson, University of Cambridge, author of Critical Forms
Irina Dumitrescu, University of Bonn, co-editor of creativecritical.net
Ryan Ruby, author of Context Collapse and winner of the 2023 Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism
Lucy Newlyn, Emeritus Fellow at the University of Oxford, poet and critic
Yvette Siegert, poet, translator and critic
Thomas Karshan, University of East Anglia, co-editor of creativecritical.net
Can criticism be creative? And if so, should critics be writing in other forms as well as the article and monograph, the default forms of criticism in contemporary academia?
2023 saw the publication of two seminal books, Criticism and Truth by Jonathan Kramnick, and Critical Forms by Ross Wilson, which raise crucial questions for the future of literary studies in and beyond the university. Can criticism be creative? Is criticism a craft? And should criticism always be written, as it is now, in the form of essays, articles, and monographs? What about the panoply of other forms in which criticism has long thrived, among them the preface, the selection, the review, the lecture, the dialogue, the letter, and the autobiography, to say nothing of the various forms of poetry and fiction, and the act of translation?
Attendance is free but registration is essential so please sign up via this link. More information is available on our website: creativecritical.net. We hope to see you there!
