“WHEN I write in Danish,” says Oehlenschläger, “ I write for only six hundred persons.” And so, in view of this somewhat exaggerated statement, he himself translated his best works into the more ...

History and Literature is a synthesis presupposing a valid cultural unity--rather vague terms, which no one on the Committee (H & L is not a department) is eager to define. The idea of presuming to ...

John Sutherland’s newest compendium, A Little History of Literature, is aimed, he says, at young people and students. But perhaps only a couple hundred American high school students will, of their own ...

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 ...

Gertrude Stein is an American writer who made her home in Paris, France. Her first book was published in 1909 but her autobiography, titled The Autobiography of Alice ...

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 ...

The Book of Kells banner advertising the outside the library of Trinity College in Dublin Ireland The oldest university in Ireland founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I The treasures are on permanent ...