Arabic literature is still partly shaped by a story written in Europe more than a century ago. It begins in the eighth century, when Baghdad under the Abbasid caliphs became a centre of science, ...

By Damian Flanagan The other day I had the pleasure of attending a very interesting presentation about antique books by an ...

The following was adapted from a speech delivered at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October. Frankfurt, the financial hub of Europe, is home to one of the biggest stock exchanges in the world, where ...

FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, ELEVENTH EDITION, SHOWCASES EXCITING NEW AUTHORS, WORKS, AND TEXTUAL CLUSTERS THAT DEMONSTRATE THE ...

Digital tools will play a greater role in stimulating the emergence of new forms of literature and art. They will help ...

Which older novels, plays and poems by African American writers are being — or should be — rediscovered? By Adam Bradley Artwork by Dominic Chambers and Tajh Rust Adam Bradley, a T writer, is a ...

I n 1993, in an essay published in the Annual Review of Sociology, the sociologist Wendy Griswold suggested that “the sociology of literature was more like a field of flowers than a field of battle.” ...

I HAVE heard frequent complaint that the years since the Armistice have yielded no imaginative masterpiece of war literature. By which is meant, I suppose, no tale of adventure equal to the Odyssey, ...

IT would be a task worthy of a volume, and requiring that space in order to be creditably performed, to show how war affects literature, at what points they meet, where they are at variance, if any ...

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