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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 ...

Do you tend to masseuse (er, misuse) words in humorous ways? If yes, you've made a malapropism—and everyone from politicians to famous literature characters is guilty of it. Have you ever uttered a ...

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 ...

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 ...