Meaning comes to emancipate us. The absolute absence of meaning can cause madness. But what kind of meaning can turn out to be our liberator? The urge for meaning is the strongest one. We have been ...
Literature is a fascinating field of learning. It is, in fact, the mother of all academic disciplines, as it relates to anything written or spoken. However, the major challenge facing students of ...
When you read Tolstoy in English, you are reading someone else's interpretation. Translators make thousands of invisible ...
New Literary History (NLH) focuses on theory and interpretation – the reasons for literary change, the definitions of periods, and the evolution of styles, conventions, and genres. Throughout its ...
Weeks before the coronavirus crisis hit, the 99 Princeton undergraduates in the spring course “Literature and Medicine” were already immersed in the many ways storytelling shapes the way we understand ...