Literature Lab

J. Hillis Miller talks about the significance of reading literature in an age overwhelmed by other media.  And works through Yeats.

J. Hillis Miller talks about the significance of reading literature in an age overwhelmed by other media.  And works through Yeats.

An interview with novelist Ben Marcus about the strange, fantastic, and supernatural in fiction.  The pleasures of fiction gone weird.

An interview with novelist Ben Marcus about the strange, fantastic, and supernatural in fiction.  The pleasures of fiction gone weird.

An interview with novelist Ben Marcus about the strange, fantastic, and supernatural in fiction.  The pleasures of fiction gone weird.

Mary Poovey, from New York University, discusses the historical entanglement of imaginative writing with writing about markets and money.  She focuses on the way genres that now seem distinct once overlapped in 18th c. England, and what this modern separation of literature from other discourses means for their different kinds of social authority.

Mary Poovey, from New York University, discusses the historical entanglement of imaginative writing with writing about markets and money.  She focuses on the way genres that now seem distinct once overlapped in 18th c. England, and what this modern separation of literature from other discourses means for their different kinds of social authority.

Mary Poovey, from New York University, discusses the historical entanglement of imaginative writing with writing about markets and money.  She focuses on the way genres that now seem distinct once overlapped in 18th c. England, and what this modern separation of literature from other discourses means for their different kinds of social authority.

Lara Langer Cohen from Wayne State University discusses fraudulence in 19th-century U.S. literary culture.  A new way to think about Melville, Poe, and others who wrote in a time of rampant suspicion about antebellum literary institutions.

Lara Langer Cohen from Wayne State University discusses fraudulence in 19th-century U.S. literary culture.  A new way to think about Melville, Poe, and others who wrote in a time of rampant suspicion about antebellum literary institutions.

Lara Langer Cohen from Wayne State University discusses fraudulence in 19th-century U.S. literary culture.  A new way to think about Melville, Poe, and others who wrote in a time of rampant suspicion about antebellum literary institutions.

William Flesch from Brandeis University talks about the theory and practice of literary close reading, and works through these ideas with a poem by Elizabeth Bishop and story by Ernest Hemingway.

William Flesch from Brandeis University talks about the theory and practice of literary close reading, and works through these ideas with a poem by Elizabeth Bishop and story by Ernest Hemingway.

William Flesch from Brandeis University talks about the theory and practice of literary close reading, and works through these ideas with a poem by Elizabeth Bishop and story by Ernest Hemingway.

Gregory Castle from Arizona State University discusses W. B. Yeats's poetry and drama in the context of Irish revivalism.  He focuses on the temporal complexity of writing about this nationalist project.