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Facts and Fictions; or Hope’s Narrative Force
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Ali Madani

Ali Madani discusses the power of narrative to shape and reshape experience, to offer consolation, and to supply some hope at scale.

Early 19th-c. French textile depicting scenes from "El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha" by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Humanities West: Shakespeare and Cervantes
By
Roland Greene

Roland Greene delivers the keynote lecture on "The Renaissance World of Cervantes and Shakespeare" at the Humanities West presentation on Shakespeare and Cervantes (February 26, 2016).

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Auerbach's Simplicity
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Christopher Warley
The task of literary criticism must be to make the pure epiphanies of a text as obvious as possible—to learn Auerbach’s art of simplicity.
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Walter Pater's Renaissance
By
Christopher Warley
Dated scholarship can obscure more than it describes a period like the Renaissance. Can such studies be productively read today? 
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