By Olaf Hansen (NHC Fellow, 1983–84) Addressing vital issues in the current revision of American literary studies, Olaf Hansen carries out an exposition of American writing as a philosophical tradition. His broad and comparative view of American culture reveals the importance of the American allegory as a genuine artistic and intellectual style and as a … Continued
By Gordon Teskey (NHC Fellow, 1990–91; 2014–15) The only form of monumental artistic expression practiced from antiquity to the Enlightenment, allegory evolved to its fullest complexity in Dante's Commedia and Spenser's Faerie Queene. Drawing on a wide range of literary, visual, and critical works in the European tradition, Gordon Teskey provides both a literary history … Continued
By Peter T. Struck (NHC Fellow, 2002–03) Nearly all of us have studied poetry and been taught to look for the symbolic as well as literal meaning of the text. Is this the way the ancients saw poetry? In Birth of the Symbol, Peter Struck explores the ancient Greek literary critics and theorists who invented the … Continued
By Judith H. Anderson (NHC Fellow, 1995–96) Judith H. Anderson conceives the intertext as a relation between or among texts that encompasses both Kristevan intertextuality and traditional relationships of influence, imitation, allusion, and citation. Like the Internet, the intertext is a state, or place, of potential expressed in ways ranging from deliberate emulation to linguistic … Continued
By William LanglandEdited by George Kane (NHC Fellow, 1987–88) and George Russell (NHC Fellow, 1982–83) An edition in the form of Huntington Library MS HM 143, corrected and restored from the known evidence, with variant readings