Posts Tagged ‘literature’
Would you ‘friend’ Shakespeare?
UC SANTA BARBARA (US) — A new social network tracks major figures in literature, like William Shakespeare and Robert Frost—and the scholars who study them. Continue…
Thursday, January 12, 2012 17:10 - 4 Comments
Society & Culture - Oct 27, 2011 11:06 - 3 Comments
Manuscript details Ben Jonson’s ‘lost’ trek
U. NOTTINGHAM (UK) — The chance discovery of a manuscript hidden among papers in an ancient family archive is shedding light on the life and career of Ben Jonson, William Shakespeare’s biggest rival. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jan 7, 2011 16:10 - 4 Comments
Shakespeare tweaked. Why not Twain?
WASHINGTON U.-ST. LOUIS (US) — The publisher of an “n-word”-free version of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is accused of censorship, but a cultural critic argues that tweaking the classics is nothing new. (more…)
Society & Culture - Apr 28, 2009 15:04 - 0 Comments
Digital archive puts the ‘e’ in Homer
UC Irvine’s Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, directed by Maria Pantelia, draws its name and inspiration from a 16th-century dictionary by French scholar and printer Henri Estienne. This stack of three books—by 5th-century B.C. Greek poet Pindar—represents a small fraction of the archive’s digitized works. (Credit: Daniel A. Anderson)
