A Future for Criticism

• Offers a brief, lively, and accessible account of a new direction for critical practice, from one of Britain's most prominent literary theorists and critics
• Proposes a new path for future criticism, more open to reflecting on the pleasures of fiction
• Written in a clear, jargon-free style, and illustrated throughout with numerous examples

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