Join Professor David James from the University of Birmingham for a postgraduate workshop on 'Uses of Criticism in an Era of Postcritique' as part of the CModS Creative Dissonance: Writing Now research strand. 

We will explore some of the recent interventions and mini-manifestos surrounding descriptive reading and the ends of critique, which have opened up a larger debate about the very purpose of criticism. This will include the issue, among other things, of how we might reconcile close reading and political commitment.

Contact Alexandra Kingston-Reese for copies of readings.

In the inaugural talk for the Centre for Modern Studies Creative Dissonance: Writing Now research strand, David James will present on contemporary writing and literary solace in 'Consolation's Discrepant Forms'.

All welcome for the talk and for a glass or two of wine afterwards.