Literature

10 Things You Might Not Know About Franz Kafka

1. Young Franz Kafka didn’t have many friends and assuaged his loneliness by reading the works of J. W. von…

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“Revealing Intimacy”: Michael Patrick Gillespie on James Joyce’s “Profound Sense of the Human Condition”

  The author of such literary classics as Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, James Joyce (1882 – 1941) was one of Ireland's most celebrated novelists…

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Gertrude Stein and the Making of an American Celebrity

Karen Leick's Gertrude Stein and the Making of an American Celebrity refutes the notion that Stein, as a high-modernist aesthete,…

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Not So Silent: Heather Clark Attempts to Restore Sylvia Plath’s Rightful Place in American Literature

Best known for her semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar and her two collections of poems “The Colossus” and “Ariel,” American…

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Imagining Virginia Woolf: An Experiment in Critical Biography

As a professor of English at Princeton University, Maria DiBattista specializes in British literature and Modernism, but she also has…

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Camus

Without question, Albert Camus ranks as one of the world’s great literary figures. He was also a philosopher and existentialist,…

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Charles Dickens: A Life

At first glance, an author known for family dramas set in rural Iowa might seem an odd fit for discussing…

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Jane Austen’s Names: Riddles Persons Places

Notre Dame Professor of Literature Margaret Doody explores the importance of names and locations in some of Jane Austen's major…

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Jane Austen: A Biography

When the remains of that long-necked lizard, the Brontosaurus, were initially discovered in 1879, it was believed to be of…

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Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt

Saul Friedlander is a historian and Distinguished Emeritus Professor of History at UCLA, noted for his scholarly work on the…

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