Literary Articles

Jonathan Culler’s Theory of the Lyric, which investigates the western lyric tradition as a whole- “from From the Greeks to the moderns”(v...

Bongenback’s position, that what makes poets and poetry so powerful as well as entertaining is the way in which they resist themselves fro...

Rita Felski’s Uses of Literature  suggests the ways literature can be fruitfully read and enjoyed both inside and outside the literature cl...

If anyone judges Terry Eagleton’s How to Read a Poem by its cover, they are sure to fall into a trap by thinking the book yet another how...

The subtitle of the book, “The Value of Literary Reading and What It Means for Teaching” clearly defines the pedagogical goals Bruns sets i...

Hirsch’s “How to Read a Poem” and Perrine’s “Sound and Sense”, which are written as “know-how” manuals for reading and enjoying poetry, ha...

Elaine Showalter's Teaching Literature : A Short Summary What should be the primary pedagogical goals of/for the teachers of literature...

To Aristotle, an Epic is a narrative poem written in heroic hexa-metre. It has four constituent parts namely plot , character, thought,...

Aristotle believes in teleology, a metaphysical position according to which everything has a   function or end to fulfill. Every kin...

A term introduced by T.S Eliot in his essay “Hamlet and His Problems” (1919). Eliot observes that there is something in Hamlet which Sh...