I teach comparative literature at Columbia University. At the start of every semester, if I plan to discuss one of my own novels in class, I always tell my new students an old story about writing and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this essay, I will sketch the research in the (mostly college) teaching of imaginative literature in two somewhat different domains: in the ...

Jonathan Todres, a law professor at Georgia State University, is the co-author of the forthcoming “Human Rights in Children’s Literature: The Narrative of Law." Updated May 4, 2015, 12:35 PM Politics, ...

When 1st Lt. Max Adams was deployed to Iraq in 2002, he took with him a 20-pound hardback edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare. Sometimes he would read from it to his soldiers—speeches ...