Every spring, during college graduation season, I think about a former professor who uttered two astonishing sentences that changed the course of my life. I was a disaffected student, attending ...

Researchers at New York%27s The New School say findings preliminary Subjects read short excerpts and then were tested on reading emotional cues Reading literary fiction %22may change how%2C not just ...

One of the momentous developments in criticism in the past two decades has been the revival of the historical method as a way of studying literature, the arts, and the world of ideas. Scholars who ...

Literature might unveil more than we might think about emotions that reflect a specific time and place, or even show how emotions have changed, or remained fairly similar, throughout time. Bradley ...

What’s the most effective way to approach literature education in the secondary classroom? Reading assigned for hw? Read alouds? Independent reading? I suspect that I’m not alone in my memories of ...

When hagiographers wrote saints’ lives, God provided the providential outline. “Any life conceived within the framework of a single world view is likely to seem coherent,” says David Ellis, adding ...

In the vast landscape of literature, the bridge between an author’s words and a reader’s heart is a delicate yet powerful connection. Aspiring and established authors alike are well aware that ...

“You be that one,” I remember my daughter saying to a companion. “And I’ll be this one.” My daughter was about five at the time, and, as in the imaginary games played by children of that age, she and ...

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