The next Literature and Comparison seminar will be held tomorrow at 6 p.m. in Gateway Hall C. Dr Clare Thake Vassallo will read a paper called "Whose Play is it Anyway? Doctor Faustus and the Issues ...

Literary criticism once had an outsize reach, influencing the terms and concepts of disciplines like art and legal studies. With it came an outsize ego. During the 1970s and 80s, the heyday of ...

Writing has literally changed the course of human history. The relationship between language and script is profoundly influenced by political, cultural, economic, social and historical forces, which ...

Explores how texts travel beyond their cultures of origin, influence other cultural contexts and ideas, and become works of world literature. Introduces the concepts of cross-cultural literary ...