I studied literature in college before pursing a graduate career in comparative literature. We learned to adopt formalist theory while evaluating various texts: poetry, novels, and short stories. It ...

This course introduces students to a wide range of critical theories that English majors need to know. We’ll begin with some basic questions about literary texts: How can we understand documents from ...

Dalkey Archive Press, 164 pages, $11.95. Of all the writers of the European 1920s, the greatest modern decade for literature, and unparalleled for writers in Russian — with the light-limbed prose of ...

One of the momentous developments in criticism in the past two decades has been the revival of the historical method as a way of studying literature, the arts, and the world of ideas. Scholars who ...

In the last couple of decades, Urdu literature has seen revival of two genres: novel and jadeed nazm (modern poem). The popularity of modern Urdu poem has led to a renewed interest in Noon Meem Rashid ...

Art Education is published bimonthly: January, March, May, July, September and November. Topics deal with issues of professional interest to art educators and are suited to a diverse audience. Each ...

The status of literature - its meaning, structure, truth value, and social function - has proven, throughout history, to be surprisingly controversial, and has generated endless commentary. This class ...

It has held sway in the humanities for nearly four decades, surviving even the great culture wars. But it is being used in surprising ways. Either literary theory is dead, or it’s invincible. It all ...