Banned books that changed literature forever Throughout history, certain books have been deemed so threatening to social ...

THE tendency to consider centuries as natural periods in the history of culture, and their termini as milestones, indicates a mental habit that is far from logical, but it is one that men do not ...

“WHEN I write in Danish,” says Oehlenschläger, “ I write for only six hundred persons.” And so, in view of this somewhat exaggerated statement, he himself translated his best works into the more ...

History and Literature is a synthesis presupposing a valid cultural unity--rather vague terms, which no one on the Committee (H & L is not a department) is eager to define. The idea of presuming to ...

When Laura R. Fisher began the research that would become her recently released book, Reading for Reform: The Social Work of Literature in the Progressive Era, she thought she was looking for ...

The strangely short history of a publishing niche. Ad Policy The smallest book in the world is on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair, 1961. (Photo by Keystone / Getty Images) As an English professor, ...

colorful American iconoclast, and an unpunished murderer — arguably inaugurated the motion picture with his series of experiments into the serial photography of running horses, begun in 1872 under the ...

John McMurtrie introduces Literary Journeys: Mapping Fictional Travels Across The World of Literature with the famous Robert Frost quote: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the road less ...

We humanists love to rail against the corporatization of higher ed. When faced with assaults on the humanities in particular, my instinct is to point to broad, malevolent, global trends — heroically ...