Without silences, we wouldn’t have the exquisite hush of medieval lullabies, the suspenseful secrets of the realist novel, or ...

Literature hews to standards outside of the democratic logic. A canonical work does not attain that status by majority consent. Claims of merit do not require a reader’s consent to be authoritative.

I hope you will allow me to respond to James W. Tuttleton’s remarks (in “Rewriting the History of American Literature,” November, 1986) on my two collections of essays and on the projected ...

I WANT to talk about the historical interpretation of literature — that is, about the interpretation of literature in its social, economic, and political aspects. To begin with, it will be worth while ...

(STACKER) — Nearly 4,000 years ago, the earliest known work of literature, “The Epic of Gilgamesh,” was written on clay tablets by an unknown author. The fictitious version of an account of the life ...

A Death in the Family. Suttree. Roots. The Glass Menagerie. The Secret Garden. They are classics spanning from days gone by to the modern era. Their authors are among the greats: Agee, McCarthy, Haley ...

The University of Wyoming School of Gender, Culture and Social Justice will host an event titled “A Literature of our Own: An Evening Celebrating U.S. Women’s Literary History” Thursday, March 13, ...