What with the recent announcement of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature (congrats, Doris Lessing!), we’ve lately been reading the New Press’s timely collection of literature-laureate lectures from the ...

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A professor of African Literature at the Delta State University (DELSU), Abraka, Sunny Ijirhevwe Awhefeada, has identified the significance of Nigerian literature, saying it is the nation’s prime ...

The subjects and dates of Mr. Copeland's remaining lectures are as follows: Mar. 24. Robert Burns. Mar. 31. The Short Story. Apr. 7. Shakspere in certain relations to our own time. Apr. 14.

I read Jeffrey R. Young’s “The Lectures Are Recorded, So Why Go to Class?” (The Chronicle, May 16) with interest. I have been podcasting my American-literature lectures for over two years now. Rather ...

This introductory course focuses on the cultural syncretism and the global diversity of Jewish experience. It provides a comparative understanding of Jewish culture from antiquity to the present, ...

THE ten lectures contained in this volume were delivered under the auspices of the University Philosophical Society during June-September 1932 in aid of the Library Appeal Fund of the University of ...

The 13th biennial meeting of the Overseas Chinese Women Writers’ Association will open on Oct 25 at Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian province. The meeting will be attended by more than 100 overseas ...

Since the first Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded in 1901, controversy has surrounded the prize, the laureates and their Nobel lectures, often relating to political engagement or lack thereof.

A SERIES of free lectures exploring various aspects of English Literature is to get underway next week. Postgraduate students at Durham University have organised the eight-lecture series which is ...