Literary Themes

The relativism that relishes diversity for diversity's sake is one that eschews æsthetic judgment or choice....

R.K. Narayan Narayan’s fiction rarely addresses political issues or high philosophy. He writes with grace and...

The notion of Art's secular epiphany takes us to Vladimir Nabokov, a reader of Joyce. As...

To sum up in a phrase the true and deepest character of Lawrence's genius, it was...

By the time we come to T.S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway in the...

Blest be anyone who, in this age of meretricious materialism, nascent narcissism, and hapless hedonism, returns...

We lived heretofore in the multitude of villages scattered world-wide amongst the ruins of the Tower...