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Category: Literature

November 29, 2019 Intellectual history / Literature / pedagogy / US history

Balcony and Scaffold: Literary Theory and High School English, in the 1960s

This is the second installment in our forum on the Academy and Democracy, hosted with Tocqueville 21. Each author approaches

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November 18, 2019 Ancient / Classics / Early modern Europe / Literature

Translating the Canon

By Contributing Writer Julian Koch Unless we are unashamed linguistic chauvinists, some, maybe most, of the works of literature we

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September 9, 2019 East Asia / Japan / Literature

Lu Xun (1881–1936) and Uchiyama Kanzō (1885–1959)

By guest contributor Joshua Fogel Several years ago, I was invited to give a paper at a workshop organized by

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August 7, 2019 Intellectual history / Literature / music / Think pieces / US history

Toni Morrison, Historian

By Editor Spencer Weinreich I read the news today, oh boy. As Shakespeare’s Richard II almost said, For God’s sake,

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