Gloria Glikin Fromm, 61, professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, specialized in teaching and writing about modernist literature. She was the author of a biography of novelist ...

The Companion combines a broad grounding in the essential texts and contexts of the modernist movement with the unique insights of scholars whose careers have been devoted to the study of modernism.

This interdisciplinary conference seeks to explore the role played by “Big Magazines” in the production, publication, circulation, and reception of American literature between 1880 and 1960. The study ...

Elias Canetti, the German-language writer, born to a Bulgarian Sephardic family, who won the Nobel Prize in 1981, tells in his memoirs of his daily meetings in a Viennese café during the 1920s with a ...

English literature is one of the richest literatures in the world. It has vitality, rich variety and continuity. As literature is the reflection of society, the various changes which have come about ...

In July of 1922, British artist and author Wyndham Lewis dropped in on Ezra Pound at his studio in Paris and found him boxing with a “splendidly built young man, stripped to the waist, and with a ...

The 2016 Edward S. and Melinda Melton Sadar Lecture in Writing in the Disciplines will be held Friday, April 15, at 3 p.m. in Bellflower Hall, Room 102. Greg Barnhisel, professor and chair of the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In order to paint my pictures,” Matisse announced when he moved to Nice in 1917, “I need to remain for several days ...

“This challenges the dominant narrative of Brazilian Modernism’s origin myth—the 1922 Semana de Arte Moderna—by highlighting earlier, diverse expressions of modernity. The book’s rich critical ...

To name just a few, there's the Words In The Park Festival in London and the Hay Festival in Hay-on-Wye alongside the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Then there's Latitude in Suffolk, the Port ...