The Conversation: Guilty Pleasures: an English literature professor’s secret stash of graphic novels
University of Surrey provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. As a professor of English literature, reading books on holiday can seem like a busman’s holiday. Teaching and ...
The Department of English Language and Literature aims to teach all students to write and speak well and to read skillfully, thoughtfully and with pleasure. We offer many courses that stress literary ...
Our guides use color and the interactivity of the web to make it easier to learn and teach literature.
Literary devices and terms are the techniques and elements—from figures of speech to narrative devices to poetic meters—that writers use to create narrative literature, poetry, speeches, or any other form of writing.
Theme Definition What is theme? Here’s a quick and simple definition: A theme is a universal idea, lesson, or message explored throughout a work of literature. One key characteristic of literary themes is their universality, which is to say that themes are ideas that not only apply to the specific characters and events of a book or play, but also express broader truths about human experience ...
The Conversation on MSN: The many literary lives of Mary Wollstonecraft – author of novels, travel writing and children’s books
The many literary lives of Mary Wollstonecraft – author of novels, travel writing and children’s books
The English novel was not invented by men. Neither was the Indian one. A look at how literary history keeps quietly erasing the women who got there first.