In a previous lecture, we discussed the meaning of Literature from different perspectives. We also saw the difficulty in determining the scope of the interesting subject. Today we examine certain ...

Literary devices are specific ways of using language or other literary elements that we can recognise and identify in a text (a piece of writing). These can work either at a word or sentence level or ...

With a new collection of essays out, the author spoke about the pain of losing his father, living through the happy period in gay life before AIDS, and going back to the ‘day job’ after losing out on ...

Social Text covers a broad spectrum of social and cultural phenomena, applying the latest interpretive methods to the world at large. A daring and controversial leader in the field of cultural studies ...