Smith College Professor Michael Thurston uncovers how one influential critic helped shape the early American literary landscape As difficult as it might be to believe today, there wasn’t much support ...

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Did you know that English used to be viewed as a language for everyday people? For a long time, scholars preferred to write in Latin or French. English literature is an incredible collection of ...

BETWEEN the language of literature and the language of common life there must be, whether in a living tongue or a dead one, differences growing out of the nature of literature. The very making of ...

Students develop skills in critical thinking, rhetorical analysis, writing, literary theory, and models of literary interpretation relevant to fields such as philosophy, history, and anthropology.

Appreciation of a beautifully written text is but one of the skills that students taking courses in English at Yale will learn. Among the others, says Yale English professor Stephanie Newell, is the ...

Less than 1% of all translated literature published in the U.S. during the past 10 years came from a South Asian language, even though the region is home to more than 20% of the world’s population. To ...

The crisis, when it came, arrived so quickly that its scale was hard to recognize at first. From 2012 to the start of the pandemic, the number of English majors on campus at Arizona State University ...

The English language has played a major role in the harmonisation of society’s progress through mutual understanding, collaboration, and productivity. It provided a platform for effective ...