Literary Criticism

Literary Criticism

Illustration of a human brain, drawn with black ink lines on a solid orange background, symbolizing intellectual life.
5mins
According to Zena Hitz, the idea of the intellectual has become distorted. She believes “the real thing is something more extraordinary but also more available to us.”
John Templeton Foundation
Famished, not famous: retrace Orwell’s hunger days, when he was one of the city’s legion of poor foreigners.
James Bond in Casino Royale
What value does wit hold in genres defined by brute strength?
Satan
By taking Satan out of the religious context, storytellers explored the nature of sin in new ways.
Dostoevsky
According to literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, Dostoevsky's talents were on par with those of William Shakespeare.