This paper presents an algorithm for comparing the structure of content within texts based on mathematical notions derived from graph theory and semantic notions of the conceptual parse. This ...

Literary criticism once had an outsize reach, influencing the terms and concepts of disciplines like art and legal studies. With it came an outsize ego. During the 1970s and 80s, the heyday of ...

Unlike film and stage, the act of literary production is an exercise in isolation. No matter how closely and devotedly a writer is concerned about his or her surroundings, he or she requires a certain ...

J onathan Kramnick’s book Criticism and Truth is more modest than its title suggests. Essentially an apologia for the nuts-and-bolts work of literary studies, it is best described not as “ambitious” — ...

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In a speech that was both a playful departure from the conventions of literary gatherings as well as a gentle interrogation of the conventional definition of literary canons, Samir Jain, Vice Chairman ...

School Literature menu should be balanced and all inclusive. This is the thesis of Abenea Ndago’s article ‘Study books relevant but lack Kenyan face’ in The Standard On Saturday December 8. Yet ...