A key area of study in cognitive literary theory is how literature stimulates imagination, encouraging readers to visualize scenes, events and characters. By engaging readers’ mental imagery, ...

The Irish city, once home to the likes of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde, is known for its bookstores, libraries and pubs, where writers found inspiration over pints of Guinness.

Fredric Jameson, a cultural theorist and literary critic who influenced generations of scholars and helped raise the ...

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In Armenia, Yerevan BookFest took place this month for the seventh year, bringing together readers, writers, publishers, ...

The Children’s Festival returns by popular demand as part of this year’s Raworths Harrogate Literature Festival with an array ...

The intellectual titan bestowed on us so many things, chief among them a reminder to Always Be Historicizing.

The initiative was kicked off on the September 20 at Alliance Française de Delhi, with a discussion on the state of reading ...

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When I began to read the author Tony Tulathimutte’s story “Ahegao” late last year, I did not expect to finish it in ...