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 ...

Am I the only Chronicle reader who has long been irked by the appropriation of the absurdly aggrandizing term “theory” when speaking of the rather narrow realm of literary theory (“Prodigal Critics,” ...

Anyone who has taught a college literature course has likely heard a student say, “Can’t I just enjoy the book?” This frustration with literary theory is common. Many undergraduates feel that theory ...

Finally, the New York Times has caught up with the next dubious trend in English literature departments: neuroscience. As Patricia Cohen writes, "Zealous enthusiasm for the politically charged and ...

Hugh Blair was the very first English professor. His official title was the regius professor of rhetoric and belles lettres at the University of Edinburgh, and when he was appointed in 1762, almost no ...

In his latest book, Microsoft software developer turned literature professor Dennis Yi Tenen takes us all the way back to 17th-century apps for a deep dive into computer science and literature’s ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Moshe ibn Ezra, the well-known medieval philosopher, scholar, exegete, and Hebrew author, was also a prosodist and critic; as such, he wrote a ...

I opened Dennis Yi Tenen’s slim new volume, “Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write,” expecting to be irritated. It was the subtitle, “How Computers Learned to Write,” that worried ...

Edris Ranji has translated the book and Qoqnoos Publishing House has brought it out in 520 pages, IRNA reported. Do the various forms of literary theory - deconstruction, Marxism, new historicism, ...

Nazia Manzoor: When I was in my first year of college, I was pursuing science because that is what is expected if you take your academics seriously. However, I had soon reached a stage where I was ...