Iain McGilchrist is a doctor who works at the Maudsley and Royal Bethlem Hospital in Kent. He is the author of Against Criticism and a fellow of All Souls.
Many academic teachers of English are at the moment united in the dismayed recognition that their subject is in a state of acute crisis. Some nourish the suspicion that English literature...
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