Students of twentieth-century literature are familiar with narratives that associate devastating wars with conceptual, societal, and aesthetic upheavals. What these accounts overlook, however, is a ...

The first half of the 20th century was a turbulent and transformative period for American and British culture. Women and men began to define themselves in very different ways, and one of the tools ...

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We have grown used to a way of telling the history. The 1950s, that decade of rationing, austerity, of dank deference and drab conformity, was replaced by the explosive energies of the 1960s, ...

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Visually appealing and deeply committed to doing justice to the source material, One Hundred Years of Solitude achieves all ...

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The “Challengers” and “Queer” director discusses some books about his longtime preoccupation: the codes and customs of the ...

Writing and reading assignments in this creative nonfiction course draw from the linked themes of place and travel ... Offered as ENG 135wp and WRT 135wp. In the 20th century, as literacy rates rose, ...

Arabic literature is struggling to reach English-speaking readers, with few works being translated despite a rich cultural ...