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Mailer’s experiences may also justify the prophetic authority he claims at the book’s end. The dust-jacket has a red, white and blue color scheme, and after a history of literature??s decline and fall in America—culminating in the judgment that with Camp’s advent, “literature had then failed”—he writes, “Nothing less than a fresh vision of the ongoing and conceivably climactic war between God and the Devil can slake our moral thirst now that...
John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures Maria Tatar, who teaches the popular Literature and Arts Core class “Fairy Tales and Children’s Literature??, says she plans to explore the notion of what it means to “grow up” in our culture by focusing on Alice in Wonderland and Peter...
After the five professors discussed the passages—ultimately defending the right of the authors to express their views through literature??students asked questions about the controversial invitation...
...fact, I have a theory about it all. I think Harry Potter has brought us back to the original purpose of popular literature. When we argue about the meaning of “true” in line 23 of Great Work X, we easily forget much of literature??s original purpose: to take readers out of their lives and metaphorically move them somewhere else. Today, movies fill the “art as virtual travel” function in our society. But Harry Potter has reclaimed that role for reading...
...many of the poems she read—as in much of her poetry—Stallings showed a propensity for examining some of the literature??s most pregnant themes through a variety of artistic lenses. She performed, for instance, several dramatic monologues by the Greek gods of the underworld, Hades and Persephone, which, although often reflecting Stallings’ characteristic irony, gave the poet a fertile literary topos in which to make some very thought-provoking, even profound, meditations on death and dying...