Literary theory — as promoted by writers like de Man, Derrida, Johnson, and Shoshana Felman decades agohad been an effort to devise new defenses for literature, by updating and developing the idea ...

Exploring the profound integration of literary and art education within the philosophy of "life education," Chinese researcher Ding Guoqi, director of the Institute of Literature at the Chinese ...

Once most of the literary and aesthetic writings were collected in an anthology by Attard, the next step was their analysis in order to form a whole, organic work. Writing a history of aesthetics is ...

“ALL history is the history of thought,” R. G. Collingwood, the English philosopher and historian, once remarked. But some have rejected the concept that history and ‘history of ideas’ are synonymous ...

Remapping African Literature is simply a work of literary critical re-evaluation based on the use of archival material, a methodology influenced in the main by established processes and procedures of ...

That John Metcalf has contributed to the development and publishing of Canadian literature is by now a matter of historical record. As an editor, teacher, author, critic, and pioneering anthologist of ...

If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t f*** ’em,” once quipped cult filmmaker John Waters.

I n 1993, in an essay published in the Annual Review of Sociology, the sociologist Wendy Griswold suggested that “the sociology of literature was more like a field of flowers than a field of battle.” ...