A Newberry Library Adult Education Seminar This seminar offers a lively survey of some of the artistic techniques, styles, innovations, … More
Category: Literary Theory
Introducing Trollope: The Warden
A Newberry Adult Education Seminar Anthony Trollope’s 1855 novel The Warden revolves around an English cleric whose comfortable living is called into … More
Top Ten Literary Theory Tips, for Anyone
This weekend Chicago will host the annual convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA). This year’s gathering will attract more … More
Composition Time
Romantic poets “admired the poetry of previous generations, very rightly, for the taste it left in the head, and, failing … More
Analysis and “Ruining the Fun”
“Secondly, and more seriously, it has been deduced from this belief that you are liable to destroy the poem if … More
Achebe and English
“The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.” Chinua Achebe. … More