Shakespeare’s commentary on science and society was so profound that the famous author Aldous Huxley copied themes wholesale from the Tempest in order to construct the American dystopian classic A Brave World.
“The 1990’s witnessed a major transformation in the discourse of theory, with the rise of new figures, a shift in the works of others, and a new sexuality,” said University of Florida Professor Phillip Wegner.
The victim-oppressor dialectic of Marxist doctrine has long since penetrated the university, leading to both classes on Karl Marx and the inclusion of Marxist literary theory in the curriculum.
In a new twist on criminal sympathy, Professor April Miller argued that murder may serve as a means of female resistance against the “patriarchal machinery” that is the law.
The ongoing concern that climate change initiatives mask a concerted attempt to initiate global economic redistribution was bolstered by the Bali Conference.
Interdisciplinary writing may offer a way to overcome value judgments and examine literature from “multiple perspectives” incorporating social, political, and economic factors, argues Professor Akua Duku Anokye
Under the language department reforms proposed by the MLA, students would be trained as global citizens freed from the “Manichean” tendencies of American culture.
The popular online professor ratings site, ratemyprofessors.com, has been eliciting some fiery responses from professors objecting to insulting comments by anonymous posters.
Just as some environmentalists have co-opted the polar bear as a symbol for the predicted ecological crisis, Britt Rusert, a doctoral candidate at Duke University, visualizes polar exploration literature as a new outlet for this discourse.
