The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of litera

The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of litera

What is the “tragic imagination”? And what role does it play in the works of William Shakespeare and Ralph Waldo Emerson? Explaining the tragic imagination as

The world of Macbeth, with its absolutes of good and evil, seems very remote from the shifting perspectives of Antony and Cleopatra, or the psychological and po

How do we evaluate the power and utility of language when it has been made to articulate falsehoods in certain totalitarian regimes or has been charged with vul