World Literature Today magazineAugust 5, 2017 – 01:26 am

World Literature Today magazine

World Literature Today 630 Parrington Oval, Suite 110 Norman, OK Phone: 405 325 4531 Fax: 405 325 7495 Robert Con Davis-Undiano Executive Director & Neustadt Professor [email protected] Dr. Robert Con Davis-Undiano is Executive Director for World Literature Today. RC (as he is called) joined OU’s faculty in 1980, and in 1 he was named Executive Director of OU’s international magazine World Literature Today and holder of the Neustadt Professorship…

World Literature ForumJuly 26, 2017 – 01:25 am

World Literature Forum

Forum: Chauvinism, Indian Literature, World Literature Our first forum appeared in August 2012 in The Journal of Contemporary Thought. It was conceived and edited by Mukoma Wa Ngugi and Prafulla Kar. This forum consists of a series of essays inspired by an interview with Satya P. Mohanty that was commissioned by South Asian Review, where it appeared in the summer of 2012. The interview was also published in condensed form in the Indian magazine Frontline…

World Literature research projectJuly 6, 2017 – 01:22 am

World Literature research project

About the Project From the project website: “The World Oral Literature Project is an urgent global initiative to document and disseminate endangered oral literatures before they disappear without record. The Project supports local communities and committed fieldworkers engaged in the collection and preservation of all forms of oral literature by providing funding for original research, alongside training in fieldwork and digital archiving methods…

World Literature TitlesJune 26, 2017 – 01:21 am

World Literature Titles

Magill s Survey of World Literature A unique combination of biography and critical analysis, covering major writers from outside the United States and their significant works in fiction, drama, poetry, and nonfiction. A companion to the award-winning Magill s Survey of American Literature , this comprehensive, six-volume set offers profiles of major authors of fiction, drama, poetry, and essays, each with sections on biography, general analysis, and…

World Literature DiscussionMay 17, 2017 – 01:15 am

World Literature Discussion

The starting point for Scanmo is the phenomenon of Henrik Ibsen’s authorship and career, and the main ambition is to construct and scrutinise the premises from which an author from the periphery could rise to world literary status in the course of such a relatively short time. Such an ambition requires an interdisciplinary effort, most crucially between history and literary studies, and that we pay attention to areas which have traditionally fallen…

Young Adult Literature trivia questionsApril 27, 2017 – 01:13 am

Young Adult Literature trivia questions

Editors: Wendy Glenn, Senior Editor Ricki Ginsberg, Assistant Editor Volume 22, Number 3 Spring 1995 Young Adult Literature Trivia - The Best of the Best Books (Compiled by Kay Parks Bushman) At the 1994 American Library Association Meeting, young adult librarians selected the top 100 young adult books published during the past 25 years. The following are descriptions of ten of them. Can you name them? 1. Arthur Dent and his friend Ford Prefect travel…

World Literature Reading list for AdultsMarch 28, 2017 – 01:12 am

World Literature Reading list for Adults

For many of us that love reading, the seeds are sown in childhood through the books we read or have read to us. Children’s literature was the inspiration for this month’s Oxford World’s Classics reading list and below is just a selection of many classics of the genre that are out there. What were your favourites? Let us know in the comments. Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is an exploration of eternal youth created by J. M. Barrie. This…