Tag Archives: Literature
Friends
“Classics scholar David Konstan [NHC Fellow 1994-95] of Brown University is working on a new study of friendship. In a wide-ranging conversation […] Konstan surveys the literature of friendship and talks about its changing meanings from antiquity through the present.” [Wayne Pond] … Continue reading
Do You Read Me?
“According to the distinguished literary critic Denis Donoghue [NHC Fellow 1991-92, 1995-98], to stress reading in American education today sounds dated, almost quaint. But without proper emphasis on what Donoghue calls ‘disinterested reading’ as a means to exercise the moral … Continue reading
The Literature of Women’s Lives
“It’s been a long time coming, but the literature of women’s lives — diaries, autobiographies, journals, and memoirs — has firmly established itself on the popular as well as academic literary scenes. Phyllis Rose talks about her recent anthology, The … Continue reading
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Recovering American Literature
765 – Recovering American Literature
The House of Percy
Walker Percy is one of the defining figures in American literary culture in the 20th-century. In a thoughtful analysis of six generations of the Percy family, Bertram Wyatt-Brown discusses The House of Percy, an account of honor, melancholy, and imagination … Continue reading
Shakespearean Scandals
Although William Shakespeare is central to our cultural canons, his plays are full of the worst sort of social ills, including racism and sexism. Stephen Greenblatt talks about these literary scandals. 757 – Shakespearean Scandals
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A Book of Their Own
Women writers have always enriched American literature but only now has women’s writing found a reference book of its own. Editors-in-chief Cathy Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin discuss The Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States. 753 – A … Continue reading
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Afro-Caribbean Lit
A discussion of the Afro-Caribbean language and literature. 724 – Afro-Caribbean Lit
Ethnicity and Education
A talk about race, education, and historically black colleges and universities. A discussion of the ideological origins of African American literature. 700 – Ethnicity and Education
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