Literature

Magical realist authors from Latin America skillfully weave supernatural elements into their fiction, empowering marginalized and colonized voices.

In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, we see the imagery of nature used both to set a tone and as symbols of its character’s struggles and dispositions.

Beowulf and The Song of Roland both show their main characters dying. However, the philosophies surrounding each poem determine the mood of these warriors’ deaths.

Edward Said’s Orientalism reshaped how we view Western representations of the East, but some scholars have argued that it lacks nuance.

American writer Emily Dickinson explored and expounded upon the themes of nature and spirituality through life, love, and death.

Let’s explore five major literary works by Samuel Johnson. What are his most important publications about?

Linda Nochlin burst onto the feminist scene with this provocative question about women artists. Her answers would make her famous and change art history.

Edgar Allan Poe was a master of Gothic literature. Although his stories are filled with gloom and mystery, they also contain universal truths.