The College of Letters (COL) is a three-year interdisciplinary major for the study of European literature, history, and philosophy, from antiquity to the present. During these three years, students participate as a cohort in a series of five colloquia in which they read and discuss (in English) major literary, philosophical, and historical texts and concepts drawn from the three disciplinary fi...

The College of Letters (COL) is a three-year interdisciplinary major for the study of European literature, history, and philosophy, from antiquity to the present. During these three years, students participate as a cohort in a series of five colloquia in which they read and discuss (in English) major literary, philosophical, and historical texts and concepts drawn from the three disciplinary fi...

The College of Letters (COL) is a three-year interdisciplinary major for the study of European literature, history, and philosophy, from antiquity to the present. During these three years, students participate as a cohort in a series of five colloquia in which they read and discuss (in English) major literary, philosophical, and historical texts and concepts drawn from the three disciplinary fi...

Early modern maps were surrounded by and interspersed with texts of many kinds. The intimate relationship between cartographic image and geographical text in the map was due to the map’s mixed media structure and its early appearance in the context of history books, travel reports, or chorographic descriptions. Literature was based on other types of text. Epic, drama, and poetry were essentiall...

Spirituality and journeying have long informed one another, both in people’s life experiences and literary endeavours. Spiritualities within the Christian tradition and their relationship to travel have been most commonly explored with reference to the pilgrims of the middle ages and the missionary men and women of more recent centuries. The people by whom Christianity was introduced to Austral...

Ifa ́ is believed to be the foundation of Yorùbá culture. This means every aspect of Yorùbá life, including religion, philosophy, science, ideology, recreation, literature and so on has one link or another with Ifa ́. Previous works on Yorùbá philosophy have neither related Ifa ́ semiotic symbols nor elements with Ayo ̀ Ọlọ́pọ ́n nor established any connection between the two. This study examines the...

The field of masculinity studies is a recent branch research, which seeks answers to questions concerning the construction masculinities and examines how process differs in different societal, cultural, historical contexts. Primarily aiming at investigating male individuals respond hegemonic norms either through their rejection or internalisation, emphasizes that close analysis concept great im...

The present quasi-experimental study mainly investigates the role of literature as input for reading comprehension in Iranian EFL classrooms. To be more exact, it investigates the effects of authentic and simplified literary texts on the reading comprehension of Iranian advanced EFL learners. The participants were 35 male and female Iranian EFL learners who were at advanced level, studying in a...