The greatest pieces of literature would be nothing without their characters. This could be regarded as an obvious statement, of course stories cannot be made without the people — and sometimes animals ...

Samwise Gamgee epitomizes the virtue of hope. In one of the darkest moments in The Lord of the Rings, when Sam believes Frodo ...

Literary criticism has a history of going through fashions, but those “almost always included moral judgments” -- until this century. So writes Wayne C. Booth, a professor emeritus of English at the ...