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

It has trickled down through history thirdhand, first appearing in a footnote to a study of Flaubert by the scholar René Descharmes, in 1909. Descharmes reported that, according to someone he knew who ...

Theory Practice is a potent reminder that the purpose of art is not always distinct from the purpose of life: generating ...

In a lesson on “Literary Theory and Criticism” we obtained, students are provided with six lenses through which to examine books they’ve read: Marxist; gender studies & queer theory ...

Trump once again brought up Harris's father Donald, who taught Marxist economics at Stanford and who has almost no public relationship with his famous daughter, then tied it to his repeated ...

such as his Theory of Forms, which features in middle dialogues such as the Phaedo, Symposium, and Republic. In these long, literary dialogues, the character Socrates is less of the historical ...

This month sees the release of two biographies, one devoted to Shemp Howard of the Three Stooges, and the other to Zeppo Marx of the Marx ... guides you through the literary news of the week.

Cultural or literary critics need a clearly defined historical and political theory to produce genuinely illuminating work. They need, in other words, Marxism. Collini, naturally, disagrees.

Knut Schmidt Nielsen distinguished professor of comparative literature and director of the Institute for Critical Theory, is remembered for his revitalization of Marxist perspectives in literary ...