Sarah Rivett, an associate professor of English and American studies at Princeton University, specializes in early American and transatlantic literature, religion and indigenous history.
June 24, 2018
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Category Archives: Literature
June 10, 2018
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New book ‘City Unsilenced’ explores protest and public space
Jeff Hou is a professor of landscape architecture and adjunct professor of urban design and planning in the University of Washington’s College of Built Environments. His research, teaching and practice focus on community design, design activism, cross-cultural learning and engaging … Continue reading
May 26, 2018
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Frymer discusses ‘Building an American Empire’
Paul Frymer, a professor of politics at Princeton University and the director of the Program in Law and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, studies democratic representation in the United States. His particular interests … Continue reading
May 13, 2018
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The photographer and the serpent handlers
How Ohio State’s Lauren Pond found redemption in the woods of West Virginia COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ask Lauren Pond to describe Pastor Mack Wolford, and “serpent handler” won’t be the first thing she mentions.
May 10, 2018
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Arthur Koestlers „Sonnenfinsternis“ (1940) erstmals im Originaltext erschienen – Spektakulärer Fund eines Kasseler Germanisten
Das bekannteste Buch des Schriftstellers Arthur Koestler erscheint fast 80 Jahre nach der Erstauflage erstmals im deutschen Originaltext. Ein verschollenes Manuskript des Romans „Sonnenfinsternis“, das 2015 von einem Doktoranden der Universität Kassel entdeckt worden war, dient als Grundlage der Neuausgabe. … Continue reading
April 17, 2018
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The Female Romantic poets who used opium for its “tranquilising power”
Opium use by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is said to have inspired the fantastical Asiatic landscape in his epic poem Kubla Khan. Thomas De Quincy described his drug-induced visions in Confessions of an English Opium Eater.
March 28, 2018
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Indiskrete Fiktionen
Der Freiburger Germanist Johannes Franzen veröffentlicht seine Dissertation zum „Schlüsselroman“ Der Schlüsselroman bezeichnet eine als eher fragwürdig angesehene literarische Gattung: Er provoziert die Wiedererkennbarkeit realer Personen hinter scheinbar fiktiven Figuren. Daher kann er als Instrument des Ausplauderns intimer Details und … Continue reading
December 12, 2017
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Music strikes a chord with great writers
Music is identified as a key influence on great poets and novelists of the past century in a landmark book by Professor Dominic Wyse (UCL Institute of Education). The book, “How Writing Works” is being discussed at the British Educational … Continue reading