J onathan Kramnick’s book Criticism and Truth is more modest than its title suggests. Essentially an apologia for the nuts-and-bolts work of literary studies, it is best described not as “ambitious” — ...

This Tuesday, Visiting Instructor of Classics Dexter Brown, OC ’11, conducted the talk, “How Did Odysseus Die and What Does It Have to Do with Abraham? New Discoveries About the Beginnings of Ancient ...

Of the character sketches that the English satirist Samuel Butler wrote in the mid-seventeenth century—among them “A Degenerate Noble,” “A Huffing Courtier,” “A Small Poet,” and “A Romance Writer”—the ...

Provided an accessible entry point into complex literary criticism concepts Reframed student engagement with literary works in the context of current debates Influenced course design and teaching in ...

Literary studies investigate texts through a range of approaches that span traditional close reading and critical theory to modern computational, cognitive, and interdisciplinary methodologies. The ...

For all the debates that have roiled literature departments over the past 60 years, the history of the discipline itself is a source of surprising consensus. According to the standard narrative, ...

'Theory into Practice: An Introduction to Literary Criticism' was translated by Dr. Majdi Kebbah Abu Dhabi: Kalima, the translation initiative of the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage, has ...

Abu Dhabi, UAE – The Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA) at the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre (ALC), part of the Department of Culture and Tourism - Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi), participated in the ...

Writer-journalist B.R. Manjunath has said as the Marxist method of literary criticism is based on the outlook of class struggle, it consequently adopts a historical approach while analysing literature ...