Modern writers like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and John Steinbeck are well known in American literary circles. These writers are often included in high school English and ...

The 2016 Edward S. and Melinda Melton Sadar Lecture in Writing in the Disciplines will be held Friday, April 15, at 3 p.m. in Bellflower Hall, Room 102. Greg Barnhisel, professor and chair of the ...

Elias Canetti, the German-language writer, born to a Bulgarian Sephardic family, who won the Nobel Prize in 1981, tells in his memoirs of his daily meetings in a Viennese café during the 1920s with a ...

Around, let’s say, 1885 the young French poet Jules Laforgue was living in Berlin and scribbling observations in his notebooks. He was reading Charles Baudelaire’s notorious book of poetry, Les Fleurs ...

A. Walton Litz, Princeton ‘high modernist’ scholar of literature, dies By Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications on June 12, 2014, 1:26 p.m. A. Walton Litz Photo by Ron Carter View or share comments on ...

Ever since I first picked up your classic study Weimar Culture (1968) in college, I’ve been a big admirer of your work. From the first, bracingly concise sentence of that book— “The Weimar Republic ...

WHEN you walk down the Avenida Presidente Wilson in Rio de Janeiro, you pass by a small, graceful building which we call the Petit Trianon. Brazilians are proud of the edifice because it is the home ...