Literature is a fascinating field of learning. It is, in fact, the mother of all academic disciplines, as it relates to anything written or spoken. However, the major challenge facing students of ...

Two hundred years from now, when subjects for Ph. D. theses will be even further to seek than they are to-day, when there will hardly be a minor poet, an obscure essayist, or an obscene fiction writer ...

New Literary History (NLH) focuses on theory and interpretation – the reasons for literary change, the definitions of periods, and the evolution of styles, conventions, and genres. Throughout its ...

Brett Bourbon, Finding a Replacement for the Soul : Mind and Meaning in Literature and Philosophy, Harvard University Press, June 2004 Approaching the study of literature as a unique form of the ...