English Literature and Ancient Languages Book

This is a good book, very thorough, but paints with very broad strokes. It introduces different lines of scholarship within certain disciplinary, theoretical, or critical frameworks and so it can in some places seem tepid or moderate. I think a more thorough discussion of some of the crises and hottest disputes (which some authors do) would be helpful, especially for new readers who are not aware of some of the intellectual or academic polemics. Either way, it's mostly useful as a resource book--who are the big names in each field--than it is to get a full in-depth understanding of that field (but this is just my reading of a few of the essays, mainly Donadey/Lionnet's article Feminisms, Genders, Seualities and Friedman's article Migrations, Diasporas, and Borders.) If you read closely you can also get a pretty good understanding of the discipline's particular worldviews. I hope to return to read Venuti's article about Translation Studies when I have time.