Understanding of literary texts can be greatly enhanced by an appreciation of the context within which their authors lived and worked. Each of these volumes focuses on an individual writer, offering ...

Perched on the shores of Lake Superior, Glensheen Mansion is the closest thing Minnesota has to Pemberley. This 39-room ...

Shimmering Details,” by the Hungarian writer Péter Nádas, captures a life alongside vital pieces of European history ...

This leaves them unprepared for challenges—academic, romantic or financial—that invariably arise ... societies and thinkers have interpreted failure offers students alternative ways of viewing their ...

Romanticism, he said, may perhaps be called the literature of intoxication and dream. Freud has pictured the human ego as living a harassed life between the conflicting claims of the instinctive, ...

Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who went from borrowing money to release her first book to spending decades as a literary celebrity who shared blunt and ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – When Taylor Swift sings definitively and defiantly “Try and come for my job” at the end of “I Can Do it With a Broken Heart,” it’s more than a closing shot.

Writing from Taiwan, she shaped her readers’ idea of romantic love with a raft of ... between a high school student and her Chinese literature teacher, was published in 1963 and achieved great ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Nobel laureate in literature Han Kang speaks during this year’s Nobel Prize lecture in literature at the ...

An American mom has shared her not-so-great experience with the population of one of the most-visited cities in the world. "During our recent trip to London, we found the overall atmosphere to be ...

At two study sites, more than half the gifts analyzed were inedible silk-wrapped trash, Albo and colleagues report in The American Naturalist November issue. What these two trash-gift zones for ...