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Why I teach medieval literature
New Kid is the person who tagged me to respond to this discussion, and since she singled out people who do work in pre-modern eras, I’ve specified my topic as why I teach medieval literature in particular. ...
Lecture 6: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
That same year, she met Calvin Stowe, a professor of Biblical literature whom she would eventually marry. In 1849, her son dies, which causes a spiritual crisis. Soon thereafter, the Fugitive Slave Law (1850) was passed as part of a ...
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Roberto Bolaño: Nazi Literature in the Americas
John Brenkman reviews Roberto Bolaño's Nazi Literature in the Americas. Nazi Literature in the Americas is first of all a prank, an act of genius wasting its time in parodic attacks on a hated sort of writer. ...
Roberto Bolaño: Nazi Literature in the Americas
Stacey d'Erasmo reviews Roberto Bolaño's Nazi Literature in the Americas. “Nazi Literature in the Americas,” a wicked, invented encyclopedia of imaginary fascist writers and literary tastemakers, is Bolaño playing with sharp, ...
Literature as an ... athletic supporter?
Sorry, it's Friday. And this story about the son of Ken Kesey invoking the family legacy -- not to mention the bus -- to save a wrestling program just struck me as ... unexpected?
Valerie Tagwira Wins the NAMA Prize
Tagwira: The award means that The Uncertainty of Hope is being accepted and recognised as an outstanding work of literature. I am pleased and I feel honoured. I hope that receiving this award will translate into wider readership and ...
Darwin, Descartes, and Dealin’ with it
Many people view some scientific advances as unnatural. But why should this be so? So many beneficial outcomes have arisen from unnatural things: paintings, vaccines, and artificial hearts. While on the other hand so many natural things ...
Brussels: literature and adaptations
This Friday, April 20, an interesting event will bring together scriptwriters and writers for a discussion about adaptations in Brussels. Books remain a very important source for new films, as producThis Friday, April 20, an interesting ...
The Herakles theme: the adaptations of the hero in literature from ...
Galinsky, Karl, 1942-