Humanities West: Shakespeare & Cervantes, February 2016 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).
Auerbach's Simplicity By 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.
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?