One Way Tickets: Writers and the Culture of Exile
Boston University
Alicia Borinsky discusses how writers and artists in exile face challenges in adjusting to new homelands, issues of identity and […]
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The Economics of Metonymy
Harvard University
Konstantinos P. Kavafis–known to the English-reading world as C. P. Cavafy–has been internationally recognized as an important poet and attracted […]
Amphoteroglossia: A Poetics of the Twelfth-Century Medieval Greek Novel
Harvard University
This work offers the first systematic and interdisciplinary study of the poetics of the twelfth-century medieval Greek novel and investigates […]
Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule
Harvard University
David Wang, Harvard University, discusses colonialism and modernity in East Asia from the perspective of subjects very different from those that […]
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Natural Science and the Making of Modern German Literature
Jeremy Adler, Kings College London, discusses the topic of “two cultures” and expands upon C.P Snows’s notion of the “third […]
L’Italia da Jacopo Ortis a Montalbano
If you are familiar with the Italian Risorgimento, this will help add more substance from a literary point of view. […]
Thomas Hardy: the world of his novels
Royal Holloway University of London
Professor Barrie Bullen, Royal Holloway Thomas Hardy: the world of his novels
On Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice
Boston University
James Anderson Winn, Professor; Director, Boston University Center for Humanities, discusses Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice.
The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Queen Mary University London
The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
Liebestod: Opera Buffa with Leib Goldkorn
Boston University
Leslie Epstein, Professor of English at Boston University discusses Leib Goldkorn, who discovers that his father is not a hops […]