Books whose ideas ran afoul of official church doctrine were sometimes cast into the flames -- and literature with queer themes was no stranger to scrutiny. Pedro Berruguete/Museo del Prado/Wikimedia ...

Have you ever wondered what it means when we talk about the ‘theme’ in a fiction text? In literature, theme is a word used to talk about the ‘big ideas’. This is different to the plot, which is what ...

Where post-colonial theory holds a special place in the world of literature, post-colonial criticism – akin to analogous cultural studies – holds an exclusive viewpoint on literature and politics.

Oxford Bookstore and The Long Night of LiteratureS organized a literary forum titled "Pages That Connect: Literary Influences and Contemporary Dialogues between Europe and India" at the Embassy of the ...

A rather spiritually deep recurring theme in 19th Century American literature has puzzled me for years, and you may have noticed it as well. During the 1900’s a number of sea-going, adventurous novels ...

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Immigrant literature – whether classified as such or simply as good literature – has opened Canadian readers to other cultures and helped in forming the vibrant, multifaceted, cosmopolitan society ...