After the so-called “end of the great narratives” – according to someone synonymous with the sunset of modernity – the theoretical frameworks founded on the concept of totality have given way to a ...
On Wednesday, the essayist Christopher Hitchens announced that he has cancer of the esophagus and will soon begin chemotherapy. There are others who know him better than I who can reflect on his ...
It’s the second lecture for British literature and my professor projects a list of 26 authors on the board. These writers were all featured in “The Western Canon,” as defined by literary critic Harold ...
Yale faculty member Cajetan Iheka was an undergraduate in his home country of Nigeria at the height of unrest in the oil-rich Niger Delta in the 2000s. Militants were setting fire to oil installations ...
Building emergence on the ashes of conflict has been the recursive task of human beings throughout history. From the major revolutions to the two great wars, progress has usually replaced mourning to ...
What are your research topics? I am a literary scholar specialising in English- and French-language literature of the 19th century and early 20th century, picture books, comics and other works that ...
The world’s literature has long shared accounts of societies during epidemics and pandemics of one kind or another, and one of the best-known opening lines in all of literature deals not with a viral ...
Founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University, Granta publishes fiction, original reportage, memoirs and photography four times a year. Granta's current issue (autumn 2010, issue number 112) is ...
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