Peter Kerry Powers

The Future of the Word

“In a period where many question the value of reading, studying, and writing about literature, Tiffany Eberle Kriner has written a timely book on the continuing value of both literature and reading. The fundamental question that Kriner’s book poses for readers is not an instrumental question regarding what literature can do for us, nor is it an ideological question regarding what literature has done to us. Rather, for Kriner, the fundamental question is what we as readers can do for texts, our reading itself being a part of the ongoing redemption, resurrection, and reconciliation of the word.”