I burst into laughter reading this one.

"Despite the popular belief that anything goes in literary criticism, the field has real standards of scholarly validity."

MICHAEL SUK-YOUNG CHWE, author of "Jane Austin, Game Theorist" in today's NYT.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/op...w&rref=opinion

Literary criticism has, of course, deeply infected* contemporary art and photography.

He is suggesting that the hard sciences look to the literary critics as models to emulate if they wish to to raise the scientists' low scholarly standards.

--Darin

* Not an auto-spell error.