Bengali theatre began incorporating varieties to add realism to its characters ... and rich traditions of folk literature”. Roy draws on the work of American linguist William Labov, who in 1966 ...

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On this day in 2016, a Simon & Garfunkel song from the 1960s reentered the charts, and it was all because of a meme featuring actor Ben Affleck. Specifically, the hit Simon & Garfunkel “The ...

This course provides a general introduction to American literature, where the main focus is on the nineteenth and the twentieth century. Primary attention will be given to how literary texts are ...

Harold Bloom’s latest book is a rhapsody to twelve giants of classic American literature who have touched the sublime. He has, Bloom says, been a ‘Longinian critic since earliest youth’. Aged ...