A TWENTIETH-CENTURY intellectual of the first rank presents the case for the nineteenth-century a...

Metaphor supposes that an ordinary word could have been used, but instead something unexpected ap...

Denis Donoghue has been a key figure in Irish studies and an important public intellectual in Ire...

On Eloquence questions the common assumption that eloquence is merely a subset of rhetoric, a mea...

A novelistic 'family romance' from a key figure in contemporary literature, focusing with ly...

How is a classic book to be defined? How much time must elapse before a work may be judged a ...

The wealthy American widower Adam Verver and his shy daughter, Maggie, live in Europe, closely ti...

Denis Donoghue turns his attention to the practice of metaphor and to its lesser cousins, simile,...

Following on the heels of The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables was ...

W. B. Yeats''s poem 'Adam''s Curse' provides Donoghue with motif and incentive. In Genesis God sa...

Experts examine the dynamics of poverty and inequality in Latin America and policies to address t...