Kerouac. Ginsberg. Burroughs. These are the most famous names of the Beat Generation, but in fact they were only the front line of a much more wide-ranging literary and cultural movement. This ...

Eric Weiskott draws on the study of meter to challenge the traditional division of medieval English literary history into Old English and Middle English periods. The two halves of the alliterative ...

History and Literature is a synthesis presupposing a valid cultural unity--rather vague terms, which no one on the Committee (H & L is not a department) is eager to define. The idea of presuming ...

Comparative literature focuses on the philosophical principles, theories and methods of literature, as well as on its research and criticism. No divisions based on history, region, language or genre ...

Mumbai: The city witnessed an enchanting convergence of literature and history at the 'Words and Worlds' programme held on ...

Biteback is publishing a new literary history, written by Edward Whitley, which explores the connection between Jane Austen and George Eliot. Olivia Beattie, editorial director at Biteback ...

In 1981, Dr. Roskies cofounded with Dr. Alan Mintz Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History, and served for seventeen years as editor in chief of the New Yiddish Library series, published by ...

Broadcaster Mark Cummings, author of Glorious Gloucestershire, says the county is "awash" with literary history Cheltenham Literature Festival's 75th chapter is being written as authors ...

Originality is seldom found in books relating to literary history -- writers and critics are content in most instances to assume a subservient role in relation to the authors they are examining.