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...need to collaborate on a play? Simply because, as literature scholars have documented, the London theaters of the day were competing for audiences and had to churn out material as quickly as possible to stay ahead of one another. To do so, they often used groups of authors to write playbooks in a matter of weeks, paying each author by the scene. The theater companies would then often advertise themselves, rather than the authors, on the published playbooks. (Read "Is This What Shakespeare Looked Like...
...analyze the linguistic patterns of literature. Homerian scholar Martin Mueller of Northwestern University, who has lauded Vickers' work, has used the "search and display" function in his computerized database to analyze Homer's works. With the tool, he's been able to highlight distinctive phrasal repetitions in the author's prose - which may come as no surprise to those who found the Iliad and the Odyssey a bit repetitive. Here again, like with Vickers' work, computers are coming in handy to help prove what smart scholars have long sensed, but they're not making any literary discoveries on their...
Richard is currently Lenore Stern Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Tufts University. He received his B.A. from Hamilton College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of three books, including his 2008 work entitled “When Truth Gives...
...China wanted to be given a platform at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the largest annual event of its kind. China was the fair's guest of honor this year, and the country's official representatives wanted to showcase a few young, popular novelists. Dai, 68, is a journalist and author of serious works on the environment in China and social affairs like women's rights. Thanks to her vocal criticism of the Three Gorges Dam, Dai can no longer find a publisher in mainland China. Her ideas on social issues in China have earned her a following abroad, but China...
...Administration of Press and Publication sponsored the translation of more than 100 Chinese books into German and English to be sold at the fair, part of China's $7.5 million investment in the event. The writers who were approved for the official program in Frankfurt included Yu Hua, an author of earthy, sometimes profane novels of human struggle including To Live and Brothers. While Yu's sex- and drug-laden writing could have been banned as late as the 1980s, it now has an official stamp of approval because he avoids overt criticism of Communist Party rule. (See pictures...