High school teachers can use texts from the canon to promote the skills their schools or states have identified as essential for graduates.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the country’s literature was widely considered provincial. Then Malcolm Cowley set ...

About 3,000 searchable pages including covers, titles and tables of contents suggest how editorial decisions have shaped ...

NMAI copy 39088019860378 from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. "In its consideration of American Indian literature as a rich and exciting body of work, The Voice in the Margin invites us ...

What makes great literature? Are the most "important" books those taught perennially in high schools and universities nationwide — those canonical texts constantly revisited and analyzed by scholars?

The idea that literature contains multitudes is not new. For the greater part of its history, lit(t)eratura referred to any writing formed with letters. Up until the eighteenth century, the only true ...

The colonial belief that the teaching of ‘English’ canonical literature is the teaching of humanism has led to certain authors and texts being entrenched in syllabi in Pakistan One of the underlying ...

In 1992, as a first-year PhD student at Berkeley, I told the English department chairman, a famous Americanist, that I wanted to write a dissertation on Vietnamese and Vietnamese American literature. ...

Canadian literature cannot be defined solely by the language in which it is written. Instead, it must be understood as a multilingual body of work shaped the diverse people who live here.