In 1971, the Arab-American scholar Ihab Hassan published The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Toward a Postmodern Literature, an early work of literary criticism from a postmodern perspective, in which the author traces the development of what he calls " literature of silence " through Marquis de Sade, Franz Kafka, Ernest Hemingway, Beckett, and many others, including developments such as the Theatre of the Absurd and the nouveau roman.

* Prof. Chung Ling, Associate Vice-President, Dean of Arts, Chair Professor in Comparative Literature, renowned scholar in East-West comparative literature, fiction writer, poet and prose writer.

* Prof. Ge Xiaoyin, Visiting Chair Professor in Department of Chinese Language and Literature, renowned scholar in classical Chinese literature.

Work considered foundational to the discipline of Comparative Literature include Transylvanian Hungarian Hugo Meltzl de Lomnitz's scholarship, also the founding editor of the journal Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum ( 1877 ) and Irish scholar H. M. Posnett's Comparative Literature ( 1886 ).

That fall, British poet and scholar Donald Davie invited him to join the faculty at the Literature Department he was creating at the new University of Essex.

His older sister Inna Obraztsova graduated Leningrad Conservatory and became a composer and lecturer of musical theory, his younger sister Victoria Lotman was a prominent cardiologist, and his third sister Lidia Lotman was a scholar of Russian literature of the second half of 19th century on staff at the Institute for Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Science ( Pushkin House ) ( she lived in Saint-Petersburg ).

* Erwin Kempton Mapes 1909 — renowned scholar of Spanish-American Literature

Hassan Ebrahim Habibi ( in Persian: حسن ابراهیم حبیبی ) ( born 1937 in Tehran ) is an Iranian politician and scholar, presently the Head of Academy of Persian Language and Literature ( from October 11, 2004, for four years ), and a member of the High Council of Cultural Revolution.

He was a sound classical scholar, and published A Critical History of the Language and Literature of Ancient Greece in five volumes between 1850 and 1857 ).

Marcus Jastrow ( June 5, 1829, Rogoźno – October 13, 1903 ) was a renowned Talmudic scholar, most famously known for his authorship of the popular and comprehensive A Dictionary of the Targumim, Talmud Babli, Talmud Yerushalmi and Midrashic Literature.

Koc School's notable alumni include Cengiz Pehlevan, who got the first place in 2000 University Entrance Exam ( OSS ); Mehmet Özge Özen, writer ; Tansa Mermerci, socialite and fashion designer ; Berrak Tüzünataç, actress ; Berkun Oya, artist and playwright ; Ozgur Gungor, the notable New York based sculptor, Pelin Kivrak, literary scholar, who graduated in 2007 was accepted to Harvard with full scholarship and later went to Yale for a PHD in Comparative Literature and Enes Ayaz, who graduated in 2008 was accepted to Harvard, MIT, Yale with full scholarship and touted as one of the " Future 25 " by the Time Magazine.

Ernst Robert Curtius ( April 14, 1886 – April 19, 1956 ) was a German literary scholar, philologist, and Romance language literary critic, best known for his 1948 study Europäische Literatur und Lateinisches Mittelalter, translated in English as European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages.

Kane Gold Medal is given once every three years to a scholar for outstanding contribution to the study of Vedic, Dharmashastra or Alankara Literature.

), Norman Lindsay on Art, Life and Literature, University of Queensland Press, ( St. Lucia ), 1990.

Academics who were elected to Membership of the Royal Irish Academy ( Ireland's highest ranking academic body ) while based at Ulster include: Bertie Ussher ( Classics ), Norman Gibson ( Economics ), Amyan Macfadyen ( Biology ), Bill Watts ( Chemistry ), P G ( Gerry ) McKenna ( Biomedical Sciences, Genetics ), Sean Strain ( Biomedical Sciences, Nutrition ), Marshall McCabe ( Geology ), Peter Flatt ( Biomedical Sciences, Diabetes ), Séamus MacMathúna ( Celtic Studies ), Bob Welch ( Literature ), Vani Borooah ( Economics ), Máréaid Nic Craith ( Celtic Studies ), Graham Gargett ( French ), Helene McNulty ( Biomedical Sciences, Nutrition ), Pól Ó Dochartaigh ( German ), Robert McBride ( French ), Ullrich Kockel ( ethnography ) and John McCloskey ( Geosciences ).

The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship -- the title essay of which won the 1993 Norman Foerster Award for best essay of the year in American Literature — introduced the idea of the “ intimate public sphere ,” which looks at the production of politics and publicness since the Reagan era by way of the circulation of the personal, the sexual, and the intimate.

Literature in Norman ranges from early Anglo-Norman literature through the 19th century Norman literary renaissance to modern writers ( see List of Norman language writers ).

* Gottwald, Norman, review of Stephen L. Cook, The Social Roots of Biblical Yahwism, Society of Biblical Literature, 2004

He published in 1865 his Life and Letters of FW Robertson ( of Brighton ), and in 1876 wrote an admirable primer of English Literature ( new and revised ed., 1900 -- but see below ), followed in 1892 by The History of Early English Literature ( 2 vols, 1892 ) down to the accession of Alfred the Great, and English Literature from the Beginnings to the Norman Conquest ( 1898 ).

At the urging of family friend, Saturday Review of Literature Editor Norman Cousins, Hall abandoned his graduate studies to write an annotated discography of recorded sound.

* Philemon Holland from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.

In fact, it is argued that these new contributions to traditional myths add value and meaning to the stories for new generations ( Matira, " Children's Oral Literature and Modern Mass Media ", 55-57 ).

This argued for a return to licensing, not with reference to the printers, but because without something to protect authors and guarantee them an income, " Learned men will be wholly discouraged from Propagating the most useful Parts of Knowledge and Literature ".

Other members however argued that this was in violation of the Church Manual bylaw " No Incorrect Literature ".

A. Richards, who in 1929 analyzed a group of Cambridge undergraduates ' misreadings ; Louise Rosenblatt, who, in Literature as Exploration ( 1938 ), argued that it is important for the teacher to avoid imposing any " preconceived notions about the proper way to react to any work "; and C. S. Lewis in An Experiment in Criticism ( 1961 ).

Michael Sells, John Henry Barrows Professor of Islamic History and Literature at the University of Chicago, argued that " by obscuring the existence of pre-Christian and other old, non-Christian communities in Europe as well as the reason for their disappearance in other areas of Europe, Bat Ye ’ or constructs an invidious comparison between the allegedly humane Europe of Christian and Enlightenment values and the ever present persecution within Islam.

Some scholars, however, have argued that the content of the poem also places it in the category of Sapiential, or Wisdom, Literature.

His early work was on Platonic metaphysics and aesthetics as well as the philosophy of Socrates, but he gained a wider audience with his 1985 book Nietzsche: Life as Literature, which argued that Nietzsche thought of life and the world on the model of a literary text.

Michael Sells, John Henry Barrows Professor of Islamic History and Literature at the University of Chicago, argued that " by obscuring the existence of pre-Christian and other old, non-Christian communities in Europe as well as the reason for their disappearance in other areas of Europe, Bat Ye ’ or constructs an invidious comparison between the allegedly humane Europe of Christian and Enlightenment values and the ever present persecution within Islam.

Whereas Damrosch ’ s approach remains tied to the close reading of individual works, a very different view was taken by the Stanford critic Franco Moretti in a pair of articles offering “ Conjectures on World Literature .” Moretti argued that the scale of world literature far exceeds what can be grasped by traditional methods of close reading, and he advocated instead a mode of “ distant reading ” that would look at large-scale patterns as discerned from publication records and national literary histories, enabling one to trace the global sweep of forms such as the novel or film.

Posthumously, he was named " Asian of the Century " in the " Arts, Literature, and Culture " category by AsianWeek magazine and CNN, cited as " one of the people who contributed most to the betterment of Asia in the past 100 years ".

Camus was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature " for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times ".< ref >

The result was the Concord School of Philosophy and Literature, which held its first session in 1879 in Alcott's study in the Orchard House.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia on David descendant Jehoash of Judah: In Rabbinical Literature: As the extermination of the male descendants of David was a divine retribution for the extermination of the priests because of David ( comp.

M. H. Abrams and Stephen Greenblatt assert in their introduction to Beowulf in the Norton Anthology of English Literature that, " The poet was reviving the heroic language, style, and pagan world of ancient Germanic oral poetry it is now widely believed that Beowulf is the work of a single poet who was a Christian and that his poem reflects well-established Christian tradition.

The destruction of cities by foreign invaders, and its resulting catastrophic suffering, unfortunately, was very common in the ancient Near East and, therefore, we can observe examples of the lament form / genre concerning destroyed cities and temples from extra-biblical sources, particularly from early Sumerian Literature dating to the late third and early second millennia BC.

Meanwhile, the British MI6 and the American CIA commenced an operation to ensure that Doctor Zhivago was correctly submitted to the Nobel Committee, which requires that nominations for the Nobel Prize for Literature must be submitted in their original language.

In 1954, Compañía ‘ Ron Bacardi ’ S. A. paid him homage when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature of his novel The Old Man and the Sea ( 1952 ), in which he honored the Company by mentioning its Hatuey beer.

In July 2010, Dublin was named as a UNESCO City of Literature, joining Edinburgh, Melbourne and Iowa City with the permanent title.

He was one of the 32 founding members of the Society of Biblical Literature in 1880.

However, since the mid-1980s, the Russian gothic fiction was discussed in a books like „ The Gothic-Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature “, „ European Gothic: A Spirited Exchange 1760-1960 “ and „ The Russian Gothic novel and its British antecedents “.

The most significant of these was H. P. Lovecraft who also wrote an excellent conspectus of the Gothic and supernatural horror tradition in his Supernatural Horror in Literature ( 1936 ) as well as developing a Mythos that would influence Gothic and contemporary horror well into the 21st century.

He founded a Circle of Friends of the Greek Literature in Berlin and was member of the prize commission for the royal Schiller-Prize.

The writer Dean Swinford, ( whose concept of irrealism was described at length in the section " Irrealism in Literature "), wrote that the artist Remedios Varos, in her painting The Juggler, " creates a personal allegorical system which relies on the predetermined symbols of Christian and classical iconography.

He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature and refused it, saying that he always declined official honors and that " a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution.

In October 1964, Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature but he declined it.

In October 2011 McPherson was honored as the inaugural recipient of the Paul Engle Award from the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature.

She was also awarded the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize for Literature for her book Pranic Nourishment — Living on Light, " which explains that although some people do eat food, they don't ever really need to.

In the fantasy genre, The Curse of Chalion won the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the 2002 World Fantasy Award for best novel, and both her fourth Hugo Award and second Nebula Award were for Paladin of Souls.

He was a member of the " Children's Literature research club ," the " closest thing to a comics club in those days.

Naguib Mahfouz (, ; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006 ) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Prior to his death, Mahfouz was the oldest living Nobel Literature laureate and the third oldest of all time, trailing only Bertrand Russell and Halldor Laxness.

Angelo Casanova, Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Florence, finds in Prometheus a reflection of an ancient, pre-Hesiodic trickster-figure, who served to account for the mixture of good and bad in human life, and whose fashioning of men from clay was an Eastern motif familiar in Enuma Elish ; as an opponent of Zeus he was an analogue of the Titans, and like them was punished.