Picture the following scenario, said Visiting Assistant Professor of German Andrew Hamilton at a recent faculty seminar: It’s the early 1800s and two European cavalry officers—let’s say Russians—are ...

Literary translators have long used computers for basic assistance, for example in the form of online dictionaries and corpora, but they have also long been resistant to the idea that machine ...

Princeton University professor Rachel Bowlby is intent on illuminating stories about parental identity — a focus she says has been neglected in the study of literature. In her book "A Child of One's ...

STEALING an idea, words or literary work of others and presenting it as one’s own is called plagiarism, say dictionaries. Some may argue that a same idea may occur to the minds of two different ...

According to an Ohio State University professor, literary devices invented over the centuries are just as vital for improving the lives of humans as advances in science. Angus Fletcher, an English ...