American English

We really have everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. Oscar Wilde The King’s English is not the King’s. It’s a joint stock company, and Americans own most of …

Literary theory

Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory, Structuralism and Semiotics, Post-Structuralism, Psychoanalysis, New Criticism, Pragmatism, Deconstruction Theory, Political criticism, Pluralism, and so on… The problem with literary theory is that it can neither beat nor …

H.L. Mencken reflections

Henry Louis Mencken great reflections and thoughts about different topics, such as religion, democracy, life, love, government, philosophy, education and so on. The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the …