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Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is the first major literary work, in any language, to be developed into a web and mobile phone app with original scholarship, due to a new project by academics at UCL, the University of Saskatchewan (USask), and The National Library of Wales.

The Argentinian Tomás Bartoletti wants to tell history from a global perspective. Since the summer of 2019 he has been doing so at ETH Zurich, where he has been researching the story of the Swiss naturalist Johann Jakob von Tschudi and his travels around Latin America.

Throughout his life, American writer and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name, Mark Twain, formed friendships with many notable figures in history that shaped his work and the way he saw the world.

A group of masked dancers, frozen in dramatic poses. A plane descending at an airport, with another trailing in the distance.

The place  Rosanna Warren  calls her "writing shack" is a tiny box of a building deep in the Green Mountains of Vermont that sits on a hillside at the edge of a vast, tumbling woods.

The following podcast and transcript are part of a feature on MIT's course 24.917 (ConLangs: How to Construct a Language).

News By: ETH Library / From the editors swissuniversities' negotiations with publishing powerhouses Wiley and Elsevier regarding open access to publicly financed publications has resulted in an agreement for 2020.

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We made a list with a number of study locations. For those who want to study in silence, but still with other students.

Editor's note: This story is part of 'Meet a UChicagoan,' a regular series focusing on the people who make UChicago a distinct intellectual community.

The UCLA Film & Television Archive, the second-largest repository of motion pictures and broadcast programming in the U.S.

A new book of "ripping yarns" from the Australian goldfields of the mid-1800s has put the tumultuous times and tales surrounding the Eureka Stockade rebellion back into the popular imagination.

An interdisciplinary team of CMU researchers use machine learning and statistical tools to determine origins of a 375-year-old document Though John Milton's "Areopagitica" - one of the most significa

Researchers from Freie Universität Berlin, University of Rochester, and Radboud University Nijmegen publish findings.

The Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts (MWK) is funding 15 innovative projects in Baden-Württemberg as part of the "BW-BigDIWA - Wissenschaftliche Bibliotheken gestalten den digitalen Wandel" (BW-BigDIWA - Scientific Libraries Shaping the Digital Revolution) program.

The life of a maverick Welsh collector who built the first major collection of books about Wales is being celebrated 200 years after his birth.

"A dominant but deeply undertheorized feature of serious contemporary writing is its fragmentary nature.

Fancy delving into the pages of a spooky read tonight, but not sure where to start? Experts from the School of English have you covered.