Given Jack Kerouac's enduring reputation for heaving words onto paper, it might surprise some readers to see his name coupled with the word "poetics." Recognition of the elaborate poetics he
Given Jack Kerouac's enduring reputation for heaving words onto paper, it might surprise some readers to see his name coupled with the word “poetics.” But as a native speaker of French, he embarked on
Poetry. Hassan Melehy's debut collection is a blistering retort to the Eisenhower America that drove his literary heroes half-mad, expressed in a taut, sometimes furious, savage lyricism of a man born
In order to explore the formation of the literary canons in early modern France and England, Melehy (Romance languages, U. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) looks at four authors whose work displays a co
Combines literary theory and history with detailed textual analysis in order to consider a question that involves both literature and philosophy, namely, the foundation of the human subject.
The study of literature still tends to be nation-based, even when direct evidence contradicts longstanding notions of an autonomous literary canon. In a time when current events make inevitable the ac
Can humanity escape segregating behavior or master the tendency to exclusion? Where does the force?of?prejudice?come from? How might one conceive the philosophical foundations?of?an effective antiraci
