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Interpreting Literatures through Literary Theories’ offers a rigorous and accessible exploration of literary theories. The ...

A team of sixty academics from across the globe including the US, India and South Africa converged at the St Andrews University in Scotland to discuss the inclusion of the famous Harry Potter series ...

J onathan Kramnick’s book Criticism and Truth is more modest than its title suggests. Essentially an apologia for the nuts-and-bolts work of literary studies, it is best described not as “ambitious” — ...

The subject was dirt, or perhaps I should say “Dirt.” It was spring 1996, and I was a newly minted comp-lit Ph.D. candidate thrilled to be taking part in my first academic conference. Okay, it was a ...

This paper presents an algorithm for comparing the structure of content within texts based on mathematical notions derived from graph theory and semantic notions of the conceptual parse. This ...

The second half of the standard expected of every high school graduate needs explanation: “The learner demonstrates literary and communicative competence through his/her understanding of the different ...

In a speech that was both a playful departure from the conventions of literary gatherings as well as a gentle interrogation of the conventional definition of literary canons, Samir Jain, Vice Chairman ...