Contemporary American Literature

If you re hankering for the Greek isles but can t manage an Aegean vacation this summer, why not go there through fiction instead? Greece may…

This tumultuous tale of life in a bleak farmhouse on the Yorkshire moors is a popular set text for GCSE and A-level English study, but away from…

OK, so you don t have to be a lit major to figure out that American Authors hit song Best Day Of My Life is about, well, having a really awesome…

Mary Higgins Clark , właśc. Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney (ur. 24 grudnia 1927 w Nowym Jorku) – amerykańska pisarka, mieszkająca…

Until he was invited to a symposium at New York’s Yeshiva University in 1962, Philip Roth felt fairly comfortable as a Jewish writer. But that…

Like a wisdom You take me to the exile of my mind! You re my saviour, the unknown, somewhere before my eyes! This is me following your footsteps…

Tom Jones Henry Fielding (1749) Joyous and irrepressible, bawdy and fast, Fielding’s picaresque adventure is short on moralising over sexual…

Landslide by Fleetwood Mac Well, I ve been afraid of changing Cause I ve built my life around you But time makes you bolder Even children…

If someone asked you to describe the 10 best days of your life, how would you answer? Most people start off listing the days their children were…

Two hundred and forty years ago today, Jane Austen was born. She would go on to become one of our most beloved English writers, her unfailing…

Building on a record of excellence in the student s M.A. preparation in the broad range of English and American literature, the Ph.D. student…

John Ruskin, Aiguilles de Chamonix (c. 1850), ©Fitzwilliam Museum The M.Phil. in Modern and Contemporary Literature is a nine-month course…

Lecture about contemporary American fiction with Dr. Zuzka