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, ...

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

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

the great historical monument modern tourists visit, which is so magnificently depicted by Canaletto. David Carrier is a philosopher who writes art criticism. His Aesthetic Theory, Abstract Art ...

Among the world’s leading academic critics, he brought his analytical rigor to topics as diverse as German opera and sci-fi ...

As a cultural Marxist, Jameson asserts that all cultural texts are inherently political and shaped by the socio-economic conditions of their time. His famous dictum “Always historicize” reflects his ...

Explore a collection of essential Greek mythology books and retellings, offering timeless legends alongside modern ...

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Raymond Williams showed us what Marxist cultural analysis should really involve in a series of brilliant works. ...

Ph.D., English. University of Illinois at Chicago. 2001, Program: Literature, Preliminary Exams: Early Modern British Literature, 1500-1700; American Literature ...

One prevailing stereotype of a political assassin is someone with strong convictions: John Wilkes Booth, for example, who is ...

It was in 2002, when Pai was invited to give a lecture on Kunqu Opera in Hong Kong, that he was inspired to produce the youth ...