As festivals bring books into public life, their true power lies in inclusiveness, oral storytelling, and regional diversity, if they overcome elitism and commercialisation.

Background: Modern literary appreciation seems to be reading literary works phenomenally. In fact, appreciation is not a general reading, which has an important difference from general reading. It is ...

Novel metaphors in literary texts (hereinafter referred to as literary metaphors) seem to be more creative and open-ended in meaning than metaphors in non-literary texts (non-literary metaphors).

The strangely short history of a publishing niche. Ad Policy The smallest book in the world is on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair, 1961. (Photo by Keystone / Getty Images) As an English professor, ...

Of the character sketches that the English satirist Samuel Butler wrote in the mid-seventeenth century—among them “A Degenerate Noble,” “A Huffing Courtier,” “A Small Poet,” and “A Romance Writer”—the ...

The Lahore Arts Council (Alhamra) organised a refined and intellectually engaging literary evening to honour distinguished women prose writers, celebrating the strength, sensitivity, and narrative ...

Translating literary classics like War and Peace into other languages often results in losing the author’s unique style and cultural nuances. Addressing this longstanding challenge in literary ...

The M.Phil. in Literary Translation at Trinity College Dublin offers a dynamic blend of practice and theory. Based at the Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation — Ireland’s leading hub ...