Trying to figure out what’s up with American literary scholarship — I mean the writing coming out of colleges that relates to literature — is difficult. This stuff cannot be understood by the norms of ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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.” ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article centers on the potential of instability as an aesthetic as well as a political hermeneu tic category, using the example of ...

This article aims to outline the salient features of an epistemological conflict I believe to lie at the heart of Russia's difficult relationship to Western aesthetics. I end with a brief reading of ...

This volume is a critical edition, compiled by Janusz Degler and Lech Sokół, of two of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz's (1885-1939) most important books on art theory and aesthetics: New Forms in ...

As the Soviet Union was collapsing in 1991, the emerging Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin attended a literary conference in Munich. At the conference dinner, he raised a toast to Stalin—not as the ...