Gary Taylor, George Matthew Edgar Professor of English at Florida State University, discusses Shakespeare and the Origins of White Literary Criticism at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 25, in Chase Hall Lounge ...

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 ...

Does literature merely reflect the world or actually shape the future? British writer Peter Boxall from Cambridge University answered this question during his lecture, “The Possibility of Literature,” ...

Literary criticism once had an outsize reach, influencing the terms and concepts of disciplines like art and legal studies. With it came an outsize ego. During the 1970s and 80s, the heyday of ...

An age has passed ... A collection of the controversial critic’s lectures showcases his distinctive style and astonishing range This is a book of 10 lectures by a literary critic generally considered ...

The Premchand Archives at Jamia Millia Islamia proudly kicked off the first Prof. Gopi Chand Narang Memorial Lecture, featuring esteemed Prof. Kausar Mazhari. This enlightening discussion delved into ...