Living By Fiction – 4/5 Stars This is a very 1980 book. Depending on your specific connection with literary criticism (and its history), you may or may not be aware that the 1980s was a weird and dramatic shift in the field. Because of the dying off of some significant figures, the opening up of the university to the influences of critical theorists, and the rise of identity studies departments, English, which always sort of lagged, went through some attempts to legitimize and re-canonize. This […]