Which brings me to the question of what a literary classic is. Here is one definition: “|A classic is a book accepted as being exemplary or particularly noteworthy.” In 1850 Charles Augustine ...
Aristotle’s Poetics has arguably influenced modern culture more than any other ancient text. The Greek philosopher’s 4th ...
He’s written about this fresh perspective for the first instalment of a new series from The Conversation. Rethinking the ...
Three versions of Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai created by Wu Yaduo in her video. [Photo provided to China Daily] How can the vitality of classic literary works be sustained in the digital age? Wu Yaduo, a ...
Try this short quiz on literature from the first half of the 20th century that drew censorship challenges — and still does.
Actress and avid reader Sonali Bendre has a book recommendation to add to your January reading list. Titled Ten Indian ...
Speaking to the Columbia University Class of 1968, professor Richard Hofstadter called college “a community devoted to inquiry.” GW and its students must recenter the classics of the humanities to ...
still mad By the 1990s feminist literary studies had become a huge discipline with university students, in the words of Rachel Cooke in The Observer, studying classics beside a “teetering stack ...
Wu chooses to present classic texts through visuals because ... "Nowadays, many people don't have the time to slowly savor literary works, so they might need a more intense way to grasp its ...
[Photo provided to China Daily] How can the vitality of classic literary works be sustained in the digital age? Wu Yaduo, a 17-year-old high school student from Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan ...