Putting up with the hectic world of social media is not the sole challenge contemporary authors are facing. We are expected to master performance art and entertain an audience not only through our written work, but also by means of public talks and appearances.
Twenty Nobel Lectures in Literature (2)
Let us return once again to the groves of Swedish Academe, and continue contemplating the last twenty Nobel literature lectures...
Twenty Nobel Lectures in Literature
What is world literature--as seen from Stockholm?
Thoughts on Literary History II
The narrative structure of literary history compels us into particular assumptions, in particular, with the assumption of an originary moment. Such concerns are to be found throughout traditional Chinese discourses on literature, as well as in their modern, literary historical heirs. For example, I've just finished teaching the section on Han, Wei, and Western Jin poetry in my literary hist