Every spring, during college graduation season, I think about a former professor who uttered two astonishing sentences that changed the course of my life. I was a disaffected student, attending ...

Researchers at New York%27s The New School say findings preliminary Subjects read short excerpts and then were tested on reading emotional cues Reading literary fiction %22may change how%2C not just ...

Professor Birgit Tautz’s latest book shines a new light on German literary history around the turn of the nineteenth century. Translating the World: Toward a New History of German Literature Around ...

When hagiographers wrote saints’ lives, God provided the providential outline. “Any life conceived within the framework of a single world view is likely to seem coherent,” says David Ellis, adding ...

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 ...

What’s the most effective way to approach literature education in the secondary classroom? Reading assigned for hw? Read alouds? Independent reading? I suspect that I’m not alone in my memories of ...

In the vast landscape of literature, the bridge between an author’s words and a reader’s heart is a delicate yet powerful connection. Aspiring and established authors alike are well aware that ...

Writer Shan Xiaohua was mediating with her pen in hand in a room. Above her thin back, a banner saying "Literature lights the heart" was particularly eye-catching. Ma Jun, the youngest laureate of ...

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