Breaking Down Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, Misogyny and All
One of Shakespeare’s earliest plays, The Taming of the Shrew (1594), follows Katherine, an outspoken “shrew,” who is to be “tamed” by her...
One of Shakespeare’s earliest plays, The Taming of the Shrew (1594), follows Katherine, an outspoken “shrew,” who is to be “tamed” by her...
In To the Lighthouse , Mrs. Ramsay's self-perception is clear, albeit staggering: “she did not like, even for a second, to feel finer than...
Out of the 12 months in a year, why do we commemorate Black History in February? The historian Carter G. Woodson, who first established...
In honor of our Literature Week, we at Her Campus Helsinki asked our writers for book recommendations as a way of bringing the week to its...
Edited By- Malavika Suresh The woman Adrienne Rich writes of in Twenty-One Love Poems is as much a dream as the cautiously flitting sonnet...
Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy will always trump young adult literature supernatural heartthrobs and most other male leads of the romance genre.
Cognitive narratology covers the study of the novel in collaboration with cognitive studies, from fields such as Psychology and...
African-American history is American history.
Ah yes, 7th grade, the beginning of my decline into toxic relationships and misguided beliefs, at least in literature. Ladies and gentlemen...
You’ve probably read – or heard of – Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall. It’s a lovely blend of sweet, fluffy romance, truly bizarre...
Five Famous Literary Women Who Would Reject Valentine's Day Ah Valentine’s Day…An ambivalent day spent either celebrating your significant...
Books are awesome. They can help you escape from reality and at the same time, are entertaining. Growing up, I was a big book kid. I would...
Let me start with a bold blanket statement: Writing can’t be bad. The act of writing, just like the act of speaking, is solely meant to...
Kate Chopin’s (1850–1904) “The Story of an Hour” (1894) is a captivating short story that presents a woman’s growing sense of freedom. The...
How literature and art portray the two themes.
Dearest reader, I now have come to the conclusion that after years of wishing I had my own Mr. Darcy and countless reruns of the 2005 Pride...
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I’ve always thought romance novels were a bit… well, meh, to be honest. Once, in our teens, my best friend and I read a Harlequin romance...
I: “Sky to Sea, Sea to Sky” Deep indigo, Alit with yesterday's stars. Slowly, the pale azure brushes upward, A breath is held with care…...