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Literature
By Dr. Tracy Sharpley-Whiting Gertrude Conaway Distinguished Vanderbilt Professor of Humanities (AADS and French) Vanderbilt University In...
Pitti Immagine Filati Thing theory does its best work by acknowledging the incapacity to attribute meaning to the...
Don DeLillo, New York City, 1990s How do the literary, visual, and plastic arts fashion questions about...
Creative Commons Photo The tenacity of the Commune’s second life does not simply attest to its continuing...
Ammonite fossil / Photo by Becks, Wikimedia Commons Nineteenth-century England saw a major revolution in the scientific...
Achilles at the Court of King Lycomedes. The sarcophagus had been sawed up to four plates which were...
Henry Morton Stanley as pictured in the frontispiece to Volume 1 of his In Darkest Africa (1890) – Internet Archive...
All rhetorical techniques are designed to enhance one of the three pillars of communication: ethos, logos and...
Literary translation has occurred for centuries (the Bible is a prime example). And with Nobel Prize winners...
Giotto’s Last Judgment in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, inspired by Dante Alighieri’s vision of heaven and...
Georg Trakl in 1910 – Wikimedia Commons To mark the 100th anniversary of the death by cocaine overdose...
“A Group of Carnations”, a plate from Robert Thornton’s Temple of Flora (1807) — Internet Archive Bridal beds, blushing captives,...
Illustration from Moonblight (1889) – Internet Archive An esoteric disease which reveals things in their true light; three pairs of...
Portrait of Swedenborg painted in 1817, after Swedenborg’s death, by Carl Frederik von Breda – Wikimedia Commons During...
Detail from a version of Sebastian Münster’s sea monster chart (1544 and after), composed from copies of...
A 1964 Soviet stamp depicts William Shakespeare. “Stamp” via www.shutterstock.com Centuries before the internet, Shakespeare became a global phenomenon. By...
Fresco showing a woman called Sappho holding writing implements from Pompeii Naples National Archaeological Museum. Wikimedia Commons Sappho...
John Williams’ 1960 novel has been hailed as part of a pantheon of western masterpieces. Pam Morris, CC BY-SA...
Even if you’ve never read or seen any of Shakespeare’s works, his influence has touched your life. Photo...
A timeline of Shakespeare’s plays / Creative Commons Defining national culture and identity. By Dr. Eugene O’Brien...
Virgil reads the Aeneid to Octavia and Augustus. Angelica Kauffmann/Hermitage/Wikimedia Commons Virgil’s epic poem The Aeneid documents the founding of Rome by a...
Detail from a portrait Thomas de Quincey by Sir John Watson-Gordon, date unkown – Wikimedia Commons Robin Jarvis...
Reading fiction can make you happier, nicer towards others and better focused in your activities. Pixabay/Pexels To counter the...
Vuk Kostic/www.shutterstock.com Historic heroes like King Arthur have helped audiences through the ages to cope with troubling times. By Dr. Raluca Radulescu /...
Hera, Athena and Iris in the Trojan War (Iris, at the Behest of Zeus, Warns Athena and...
Tang and Shakespeare’s dramas are being blended together in a series of adaptions. Performance Infinity, Author provided Shakespeare was not the only famous...
The painting depicts the end of the 1381 peasant’s revolt, mentioned in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The image...
Helen McCrory as Medea. Richard Hubert Smith/National Theatre By Dr. Laura Swift / 07.23.2014 Lecturer in Classical Studies The Open...
Gilgamesh explores what it means to be human, and questions the meaning of life and love. Wikimedia Commons...