WHETHER YOU’RE a political junkie or not, we still have months to go until the GOP convention and the presidential election. Thankfully, IJ readers know that nothing cuts through the rhetoric than ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- It was former New York Governor Mario Cuomo who, in 1985, summed up political campaigning in literary terms: "You campaign in poetry," he said. "You govern in prose." A new book from ...

What do you think of abortion? Do you want a student center? Do you support gun control? Welfare? Post-modernism? Do you support a minimum wage? What do you think of athletes? Do you like Joyce? Does ...

In his 1589 how-to for aspiring poets and courtiers, George Puttenham describes poetry as “a manner of utterance more eloquent and rhetorical than the ordinary prose.” The most rhetorical of genres, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information MFS publishes theoretically engaged and historically informed articles on modernist and contemporary fiction. The journal's ...

"Origins of the Dream" examines the personal and political intersection of two leading African-American public intellectuals of the mid-20th century, Langston Hughes and Martin Luther King Jr. They ...