Literary criticism has a history of going through fashions, but those “almost always included moral judgments” -- until this century. So writes Wayne C. Booth, a professor emeritus of English at the ...

You know what drives me crazy? When everyone agrees on something in literature that's just plain wrong. We've all heard the ...

Literature is full of larger-than-life characters. From Glinda the Good Witch to Sherlock Holmes, they don't exactly seem like people you'd encounter just walking around town — but many writers over ...

The greatest pieces of literature would be nothing without their characters. This could be regarded as an obvious statement, of course stories cannot be made without the people — and sometimes animals ...