Back in June I wrote about the way French Theory could be used to undermine evidence. I received a challenge among the comments to provide some evidence for this. Well, at the time, I didn’t have much evidence (as I thought I had made clear), but now a small aliquot has arrived courtesy of Arts [...]

The schools of thought that have dominated literary theory for the last half-century are dying. But they still have their adherents. Consider this widely referenced essay in The Chronicle Review. Here François Cusset writes a defence of what he calls “French theory” (which is not a term I like but at least seems to have [...]