“Criticism,” according to Northrop Frye, “is badly in need of an organizing principle, a central hypothesis which, like the theory of evolution in biology, will see the phenomena it deals with as ...

For years I’ve tried to figure out how to get my “Introduction to Literature” students--99 percent of them not English majors--to appreciate literature. And by “appreciate,” I don’t mean “like.” ...

The Fast and the Furious franchise is the pinnacle of modern cinema. We know this. Off the top of my head I can't think of another franchise that's been successful on so many fronts. It's profitable, ...

A very interesting piece by Prof. Thomas Balazs in Quillette. An excerpt: When ChatGPT can analyse Hamlet as well as any grad student, we might reasonably ask, "What is the point of writing papers on ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

IN “Dead Poets Society” (1989), John Keating, a teacher at a 1950s American boarding school, played by Robin Williams, draws a chart, its shape dictated by a fictional essay called “Understanding ...

The rise of blogging clearly represents a significant social phenomenon, but studying it poses a challenge in part because defining a blog is not a simple thing. There have been a number of attempts ...

I have been told quite a few times that my creative writing style is somewhat reminiscent of Virginia Woolf. Although I have only read her first published story, “The Mark on the Wall,” during ...