Drawing on more than 50 years of combined teaching experience, the authors set out to create an accessible resource that ...

Provides a basic skills course designed to equip students to handle the English major. Emphasizes critical writing and the acquisition of basic techniques and vocabulary of literary criticism through ...

The Literature and Critical Analysis minor is offered through Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts. This page outlines requirements for the minor. Students who major in Literary Studies at Lang (BA ...

Computational analysis in literary studies brings quantitative methods and digital tools to bear on texts, enabling scholars to explore large corpora with a level of scale and precision not possible ...

New studies using an MRI machine to track the flow of blood in the brain show how close reading of literacy texts increases multiple complex cognitive functions. In this experiment, participants were ...

Stylistics and textual analysis explore how linguistic choices in written or spoken texts generate meaning, effect and style. Rooted in traditions of rhetoric and poetics, the field has expanded ...