When students use playful materials to build a physical object that represents their thinking, they grapple with texts in new ...

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” — ...

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 ...

Writing has literally changed the course of human history. The relationship between language and script is profoundly influenced by political, cultural, economic, social and historical forces, which ...

How is literary translation different from other forms of translation? To oversimplify a little, non-literary translation such as commercial, legal, medical etc. tends to focus on the meaning of a ...

Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) provides funding as a member of The Conversation FR. While browsing the shelves of a library or a bookshop in search of the adventures of Gregor Samsa or Raskolnikov, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Standing in the way of a grammatical investigation of Sumerian based on the literary texts from the OB period is the problem of the myriads of ...