A brilliant, endearing presence on the Homewood campus for more than 60 years, Richard Macksey, A&S '53, '53 (MA), '57 (PhD), approaches knowledge the way a foodie looks at nature: There's potentially ...

The Cambridge Quarterly is a journal of literary criticism. It seeks to publish articles which offer new readings of familiar works or authors, or which draw critical attention to new or neglected ...

To understand some of the puzzling trends in recent American literature, it helps to have a basic knowledge of the so-called “post-structuralist” theory that took hold in U.S. English departments in ...

The novelist, who died last week aged 87, clung fast to realism during a time of faddish post-structuralists. By Charlotte Stroud AS Byatt, who died last week at the age of 87, had a penchant for ...