Once upon a time, so says the sagacious and always jovial poet Sheykh Mosleh al-Din Sa’di (ca. 1209–1291) in hisGolestan(composed in 1258), there was a king who one day in a rage ordered the execution ...

Throughout Animate Literacies, I have practiced methods of literary analysis that are the default mode of attention in humanist literary studies, but I have also tried to pull back the frame of my ...

Humanism was born in Renaissance Italy as an approach to reading Roman literature. It later turned into an Enlightenment philosophy for reorganizing society along rational lines, especially in France.

L: The World of Persian Literary Humanism' by Hamid Dabashi (Harvard University Press, 2012). R: The author (Golbarg Bashi). Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and ...

I skipped the Literary Arts departmental meeting of Monday, March 9th, and I shouldn’t have. Item seven on our agenda, “COVID-19,” suddenly became item No. 1, and the upshot, as I soon ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to Han Kang, a South Korean author, for her “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life ...

Told through multiple perspectives, “Human Acts” draws inspiration from ... placed the book at the center of a fierce debate about literary translations. Critics said the award-winning English ...