While most of us know George Orwell as an authoritative critic of totalitarianism, few people know he was a committed ...

psychoanalytic and Marxist theory, as well as the historical progression from new criticism to structuralism, deconstruction, new historicism, and various forms of poststructuralist literary and ...

Mysuru: Ravi Joshi, retired Joint Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, will speak on the topic “Understanding the Political Right ...

Limón's use of Bloom, as well as of Marxist critics Raymond Williams and Fredric Jameson, brings Chicano literature into the arena of contemporary literary theory. By focusing on an important but ...

Iqbal’s deep affection for Kashmir calls for embracing his legacy wholeheartedly, fostering a lasting connection with his art ...

More to the point, Sokal and Bricmont’s fear that the students who come to universities seeking to Do Good will be waylaid by literary theory into a moral cul-de-sac is unfounded. Plenty of those who ...

Key issues in literary interpretation. Cultural criticism, Marxism, structuralism and deconstruction, feminist theory, ethnic criticism, psychoanalysis, hermeneutics ...

László Krasznahorkai’s “Herscht 07769” is a timely meditation on our impotent slide into authoritarianism.

A sojourn in Southern Italy by a group of German intellectuals helped kick off a century of academic obsession.

An ambitious new book sees hidden currents linking writers as disparate as Colette, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia ...

Price’s four interlaced East Harlem protagonists are big-souled people navigating narrow, “negotiated life.” What they want ...