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These are not the days when most educators would be inclined to turn to a writer with the profile of Wallace Stevens (1879-1955). A Eurocentric white male upper-middle-class poet, academically installed during those years when canons were unthinkingly composed of such figures. A reserved lawyer who rose to the position of vice president of a […]
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My study of the history of Shakespeare publishing and editing, Shakespeare in Print, first appeared in 2003. In recent years, it has come to feel that the book was in need of significant updating and revision, for two main reasons. Firstly, a broad range of exciting new work – often authored by younger scholars – […]
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So said former CIA Director R. James Woolsey to the House Armed Services Committee in 1999, channeling what had become a consensus about Iraq in the U.S. foreign policy establishment by the end of the 1990s: that Saddam Hussein could no longer be contained because he was fixated on shedding sanctions and inspections, rebuilding his […]
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What did it mean to be a prince in the Middle Ages? During the Hundred Years’ War (c. 1337–1453), the kingdom of France contained a number of powerful duchies and counties, such as Brittany in the west, Burgundy to the east, and Armagnac down south. These principalities were technically subservient to the French king, but […]
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“Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends,” Philip Roth once famously said of his own work. The enduring appeal of this assertion derives in part from the fact that it so accurately captures the tone of Roth’s work: wry humor mingled with an unflinching appraisal of American life, satirical but compassionate treatment of […]
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How did Canadian fiction, essentially a late-nineteenth-century/early-twentieth-century creation, come to be a major avenue of world fiction in little more than one hundred years? More than a century ago, a few fiction writers published highly regarded and incredibly popular books. Writers such as Ernest Thompson Seton and Marshall Saunders, Ralph Connor and Stephen […]
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After years of struggling to complete a book on scientific revolutions and the development of scientific knowledge, in 1962, Thomas Kuhn published The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Three years later, in 1965, there was a lively and now-famous colloquium at Bedford College, London, dedicated to Structure. It was organized by Imre Lakatos, a former student […]
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The following is a Press Release prepared by Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings for Nobel Life: Conversations with 24 Nobel Laureates on their life stories, advice for future generations and what remains to be discovered by Stefano Sandrone
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