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 ...

However inclined by their training to vacillate, scholars in the humanities are increasingly being asked to take sides. Should they support or oppose their students’ efforts to ban a reactionary ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The word is not yet in our standard dictionaries and encyclopedias, but since the end of World War II, and especially in the United States in the latter 1960s and the 1970s, “postmodernism" has ...

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 ...