The tale begins after Ra had created the world and was king of the gods and humanity....
Literature
Enter the worlds created by poets, playwrights, novelists, and storytellers across time. Explore influential works and the lives behind them while tracing how literature preserves memory and challenges societies to imagine themselves differently.
From public notes and broadsides to catchpennies and printed songs, examining the variety of street literature which...
The titles featured here (by American authors) have had a profound effect on American life. Introduction Ask...
How a 17th-century nun wrote poetry, dramas, and comedies that took on the inequities and double standards...
Exploring the importance of his first dramatic work and how in it can be seen the themes...
The pervading strength and influence of Christianity becomes apparent in the abundance of religious poetry created during...
Rasse des Noeux was a considerable bibliophile and man of letters. Why do we often sign and...
In the year 1984, there was self-congratulatory coverage that the dystopia of the novel had not been...
She was a great observer of everyday life. Virginia Woolf, that great lover of language, would surely...
Walt Whitman’s influence on the creative output of 20th-century Russia — particularly in the years surrounding the...
All kinds of fantasies could be found in this land at the edge of earth. Introduction Herodotus (484...
Throughout his life, Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) collected books across a vast spectrum of topics and languages. Introduction...
Persian gained prominence as a literary language and a lingua franca—a common cultural language—about a thousand years...
A literary alternative to the murderous, supersessionist versions of the story that animates the site. Given the...
Although a saint, a bishop, and an important figure in a turbulent age, Sidonius is remembered particularly...
Examining the cultural heritage of Early Modern Europe and its influence in contemporary thought. By Angel Solis,...
What place does the paper book have in our increasingly all-digital present? What place does the paper...
In short, the new fragment reveals a vision of humanity as a process of maturation that unfolds...
From ‘Six studies of a cat’ by Thomas Gainsborough, 1763–70 The poet Christopher Smart — also known...
In 1980, 60 percent of 12th graders said they read a book, newspaper or magazine every day...
Hal Lindsey and C. C. Carlson’s The Late Great Planet Earth introduced millions of readers worldwide to end-times prophecy....
Books had the practical aim of helping children to learn to read, count, and understand the world...
A discussion of Avicenna’s 11th-century points of view on rabies and compare them with modern medical knowledge....
Through its representation of physical and psychological effects, Séjour’s story inaugurated the literary delineation of slavery’s submission-rebellion...
Fictional characters, unlike laudanum-addicted impostors, never really die. A handsome youth with shoulder-length golden hair sits in...
In the 1880s and 90s, the age-old literary figure of the spy underwent a number of transformations...
How did a religious celebration turn into a holiday that is all about home, family, and Christmas...
“Anthony: What Is the Point of All This? The Devil: There Is No Point!”, by Odilon Redon...
Criticism of the monarchy in the press was suppressed during this period. By Jennifer Hight Introduction The...
For centuries, readers have written in the margins of their books to indicate admiration, disagreement or inspiration. Plath was...