Professing Criticism Quotes

“Curricular revision is undertaken today on an even larger scale than in the 1990s, because the scene has shifted from national to transnational literatures.”
― John Guillory, Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study

“The very phrase teaching literature is misleading, since what teachers and students produce in literature courses is not literature, but criticism—that is, discourse about literature.”
― John Guillory, Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study