The New Sociology, or, in Praise of the Middle Zone
(Crossposted at Arcade.) Mark McGurl’s The Program Era ends with an insightful reflection on the problem of "scale" in literary study — our almost automatic assumption that we must always scale up the stakes of literary study in order to argue for our relevance. Bigger, we commonly assume, is better, and will garner for us … Continue reading The New Sociology, or, in Praise of the Middle Zone