I studied literature in college before pursing a graduate career in comparative literature. We learned to adopt formalist theory while evaluating various texts: poetry, novels, and short stories. It ...

Some literary magazines also have published special issues on him. Two new books on N. M. Rashid stoke up the feeling that Rashid’s poetic genius is appreciated and celebrated in a better way now.

The popularization of the digital humanities and the return to formalism are overdetermined by the perceived crises in the humanities. On the one hand, the new formalism harks back to a ...