Literary Criticism - Science topic

This article deals with understanding the aesthetics of French classicism, which not only assumes compliance with norms, but also establishes “freedom” as the leading aesthetic component of the text. The first part of the study demonstrates the deformed logic of perceiving classical aesthetics in Russian philological science, which largely followed...

In 1997, Geoff Dyer presented himself as a literary critic with an extreme case of writer’s block, attempting to write a book about D. H. Lawrence that he would never actually finish (Dyer did not intend to write a serious study of D. H. Lawrence). This persona appeared in Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence, a strange, hybrid, cheeky...

This paper presents a novel methodological approach to the structural analysis of Haiga (俳画) works through the application of PlantUML C4 modeling, traditionally used in software architecture documentation. By examining Laura Cristina Nicolae's haiga work "Even without an observer, the redness of the moon" (見る人の無くとも月の赤さ哉), this study demonstrates...

Este trabalho analisa como o romance Coivara da memória, de Francisco J. C. Dantas, dialoga com o regionalismo literário. Inicialmente, apresenta-se uma breve reflexão introdutória sobre o regionalismo na literatura brasileira, seguida de uma discussão dos posicionamentos da crítica literária e do escritor acerca de sua filiação à tradição regional...

Julius Margolin, Jewish philosopher, writer and literary critic (1900-1971) spent five years in the Gulag camps (1941-1945). During his imprisonment, he was able to write, including a text entitled Doctrine of Hatred, in which he analyzed the different types of collective hate. This work was confiscated from him in the camp and destroyed. In his ma...

FOREWORD The Literary Can of Worms – Introduction to Literary Studies is a textbook written for students of (English) literature, and all those curious about where reading for pleasure ends and academic criticism begins. The idea behind the textbook is to facilitate the beginners’ comprehension of concepts necessary for understanding the vast body...

Despite a biography full of episodes of struggle against dictatorship, revolutionary fervor of his early works, membership in the Communist Party, participation in the international peace movement, friendship with the major writers of his generation and “fellow travelers” of the Soviet Union (P. Neruda, R. Alberti, and others), and, finally, a desi...

Winnicott is often endorsed by critical theory, primarily because he offers a less rigid approach than orthodox psychoanalysis. He also displays a dialectical feature that matches the Hegelian bent that critical theory retains from its Marxist origins. However, Winnicott also entails some serious exclusions that subvert efforts to enlist him for cr...

This paper presents a novel methodological approach to the structural analysis of Haiga (俳画) works through the application of PlantUML C4 modeling, traditionally used in software architecture documentation. By examining Laura Cristina Nicolae's Haiga work "Even without an observer, the redness of the moon" (見る人の無くとも月の赤さ哉), this study demonstrates h...

The universal moral values of compassion, justice, equality, and resilience form the ethical framework for various societal and cultural narratives. The current paper attempts to analyse the reflection of these values in indian english literature by studying Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable, Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, and Amitav Ghosh's T...

The analysis of a literary critical essay should be viewed through the prism of its communicative function. It is important to note that in modern times, the text no longer reflects only the product of thought and the event sealed in written form, it draws attention to the interactions between the participants of communication, even if they are far...

La crítica literaria tradicional llama a Claudio Claudiano (370 d.C.?-410 d.C.) "el último poeta de la Roma clásica"; esta denominación, que excluye la Antigüedad tardía, sostiene como paradigma literario la recreación de la forma épica sin comprender que Claudiano reproduce poéticamente una perspectiva disímil con respecto al efímero Clasicismo im...

The interdependence of folklore and literature is an urgent problem of current literary criticism in the aspect of the formation of world culture. An important task of modern science involves identifying difficult ones. unique, historically determined patterns of literature's appeal to folklore in different eras. the concept of the dynamics of thes...

This study examines China’s mengnv community, exploring their self-empowering cultural practice of customising intimate fantasies through creative writing and its cultural implications. Combining feminist literary criticism and reader-response theory, the research employed focus group interviews and textual narrative analysis to reveal how these yo...

How well do modern long-context language models understand literary fiction? We explore this question via the task of literary evidence retrieval, repurposing the RELiC dataset of That et al. (2022) to construct a benchmark where the entire text of a primary source (e.g., The Great Gatsby) is provided to an LLM alongside literary criticism with a m...

This critically discusses the role of literary appreciation and criticism in enhancing the quality of literary works by thoroughly reviewing existing practices and theories. Through a qualitative analysis approach, this study highlights how appreciation and criticism not only function as passive responses to works but also as active instruments tha...

The study of comparative literature has long emphasized the intersection of diverse cultural and linguistic traditions, yet the role of poetics in shaping this field remains underexplored. Poetics, as the study of the principles and forms of literature, offers a foundational framework for analyzing the aesthetic and structural aspects of texts acro...

يقوم هذا البحث على دراسة السرديات المضادة في شعر سعيد الزبيدي، فلا بدّ من التعريف بمصطلح السرديات المضادة، وماذا يقصد به في النقد الأدبي الحديث، وكيف ظهر في شعر سعيد الزبيدي بوساطة التأريخ والتراث والدين، وهل وظفه الشاعر توظيفاً صحيحاً، ويسعى السّردُ إلى خلق مساحة للحوارِ والنقاش، بوساطة تقديمِ وجهاتِ النظر المتعددة، وبذلك يمكن للشاعر أن يُحفّز الق...

Este artículo analiza el papel del multilingüismo, la autotraducción y el heterolingüismo en la literatura contemporánea y su relevancia histórica. En la era globalizada, los individuos transitan constantemente entre lenguas, lo cual ha favorecido el surgimiento de escritores multilingües y autotraductores. Sin embargo, la crítica literaria tradici...

Since its 1847 publication, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre has attracted steadily shifting critical attention. This study maps those changes by analyzing two representative scholarly articles from each of four periods—1950–1960, 1965–1975, 1980–1990, and 1995–2015—to track evolving methods and thematic priorities. Whereas earlier criticism focuses on...

One in three women globally experienced physical or sexual violence in their lifetime (World Health Organization, 2021), but how is this trauma expressed when words fail? Modern women’s literature is more and more tending to the body as a central site of telling, a shift that is crucial to the way trauma is not only lived, but told. Although litera...

Plurilinguismo, multilinguismo, translinguismo, code-switching são noções que emergem de maneira significativa nas últimas décadas, o que pode ser observado em uma breve consulta às chamadas de revistas e publicações relativamente recentes. No número 46, consagrado ao tema “Entre les langues”, da revista Genesis, os organizadores Olga Anokhina e Em...

The scientific article aims to analyze the factors provoking betrayal and the origin of remorse and to present psychological portraits of the characters in Mehmed Rauf's acclaimed novel September. As some literary critics suggest, it is considered to be the first psychological novel in Turkish literature of the Servet-i-Funun period. The novel is w...

This study examined a theme of rural to urban migration as highlighted in selected Tanzanian young adult novels. Significantly, the study sought to generate some knowledge on class struggle revealed in the selected young adult novels in Tanzanian society. The study has used Marxist social critical theory as a literary criticism. We have examined qu...

This research critically investigates the colonial representation of the colonized in E.M. Forster's canonical novel A Passage to India (1924), examining the extent to which Forster, a British author, succeeds-or fails-to justly depict colonized Indian subjects within the framework of postcolonial discourse. Anchored in postcolonial theories by Edw...

Tradução de dois prefácios de Anatoli Lunatchárski, grande nome da Revolução Russa, especialmente no campo da cultura e da literatura. O primeiro prefácio, de 1925, introduz uma série de livros de escritores contemporâneos destinada ao público jovem e escolar. O segundo prefácio, de 1931, introduz uma coletânea de artigos críticos à literatura infa...

El artículo examina la representación de las plantas en Cántico cósmico de Ernesto Cardenal, un poemario que trata temas científicos, históricos y metafísicos, y Poesía campesina actual de Solentiname. Antología, de campesinos integrantes de la comunidad de Solentiname. Se analizan ambos textos a través de contribuciones de teólogos de la eco-liber...

This study aims to highlight Arab women’s autonomy by elaborating the feminist meaning in the literary code that challenges the patriarchal myth of Adam and Eve in three contemporary Arabic literary works. Through a feminist literary criticism approach, this study reveals the form of deconstruction and criticism of the binary opposition. Hence, Eve...

This study uses a feminist literary criticism approach to analyze Ferena Debivena's short story “The Woman Who Bears the Shadow.” To investigate the type of gender inequality experienced by Lara, the main character, this research focuses on three schools of feminism: marxist, social, and liberal. The research used a descriptive qualitative approach...

The present article traces the inevitable turn towards negativity of the idea of hope, following the literary-critical reflections of Georg Lukács, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno. This movement dates back to early modernism, where the transformation of absolute despair into its opposite was still supported by the religious-political climate...

O objetivo deste texto é refletir sobre como a categoria “mundo”, aplicada ao cinema, se traduz no ambiente acadêmico e audiovisual brasileiro no século XXI, a partir de uma visão geral das principais teorias e conceitos relacionados à ideia de “cinema mundial/world cinema” no debate acadêmico em língua inglesa. Em termos gerais, a categoria “cinem...

تتناول هذه المراجعة المنهجية المواضيع النسوية وتمثيلات المرأة في الشعر العربي الحديث من خلال تحليل الأدبيات العلمية المُفهرسة في سكوبس، وويب أوف ساينس، وجوجل سكولار. باتباع إرشادات "العناصر المُفضّلة للتقارير للمراجعات المنهجية والتحليلات التلوية" (PRISMA)، استُرجع في بحث أولي 210 مصادر أكاديمية. وبعد تطبيق معايير التضمين والاستبعاد، اختيرت 65 مقال...

Aims: This study aimed to determine the connection between Edgar Allan Poe's personal life experiences and the themes of his poem "Annabel Lee." Study Design: Textual Analysis. Methodology: This study employed textual analysis using biographical literary criticism and examined how the events of an author's life influence a writing style and the inc...

Resumo: As reflexões propostas neste artigo têm como objetivo pensar a produção literária de mulheres negras e indígenas brasileiras, no encalço da categoria político-cultural Amefricanidade, de Lélia Gonzalez. De acordo com a pensadora brasileira, “o termo amefricanas/amefricanos designa toda uma descendência: não só a dos africanos trazidos pelo...

AI is increasingly present in creative areas, and its effect on literature can be seen as it influences the way people write and analyze literature. This research explores the effects of AI on literature by studying readers’ and experts’ opinions using a survey method, and analyzing the results with statistics and graphs. Although the writing is se...

This research aims to explore the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on literary criticism, focusing on the potentials it offers and the challenges it faces in this field. With the advancement of AI technologies, it has become possible to analyze literary texts in innovative ways, opening unprecedented horizons for understanding literature. How...

Zusammenfassung Hugo von Hofmannsthals Erlebnis des Marschalls von Bassompierre (1900) wird in der Forschung zumeist als experimenteller Hypertext betrachtet, der die Memoiren des historischen Bassompierre und ihre Bearbeitung in Goethes Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten (1795) in ›produktiver Anverwandlung‹ (Katrin Scheffer) zur ›virtuosen S...

En su recorrido por tres novelas emblemáticas de la época victoriana extendida, el siguiente volumen saca a la luz la expresión desnuda de una experiencia histórica que está en el centro del desarrollo de la modernidad: el ascenso del Imperio británico en su dimensión política, social y económica, pero también y sobre todo en su dimensión ética y e...

This article takes as its focus the late Latin poems of Maximianus (sixth-century AD) and investigates how we can compare its representation of ageing as a bodily transformation to the metamorphosis of Seth Brundle in David Cronenberg’s film The Fly (1986). Such a comparative analysis is made possible on the one hand through the use of the framewor...

This study addresses the complex portrayal of sex in Meredith Duran’s Fool Me Twice, focusing on its multifaceted nature and the roles it plays in characters’ pursuit of pleasure. Recognizing a gap in literary criticism regarding the aesthetic analysis of sexuality in historical romance, this research applies an aesthetic experience framework to ex...

What does it mean for a culture to include, or exclude, ancestors as active members? How do Indigenous cultures and traditions cast light on the role of ancestors? Those are the central questions in this article. It begins by offering a general account of the role of ancestors in Indigenous cultures and traditions. These general comments contextual...

The paper investigates the adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire into three Arabic films, analyzing their cultural significance and enduring popularity in the Arab world. Central to the study are two key questions: How do the three Arab adaptations reflect universal themes such as love, revenge, and class struggle within Arab s...

In January 2024, the high-profile Danish literature critic and postfeminist influencer Katherine Diez was scandalised when users on Reddit exposed that she had plagiarised in some of her posts on Instagram and in some of her cultural reviews and columns produced for magazines and news media. In this article, we analyse the unfolding of the scandal...

The research on Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892) is motivated by the social reality of patriarchal oppression in marriage. This research uses a descriptive qualitative method. The study examines the critique of patriarchal oppression—the state in which societies grant men more power and privilege than women. The figure of Jo...

This comprehensive study examines the philosophical, aesthetic, musicological, and spiritual dimensions of Rabindranath Tagore's profound composition "Na Chaile Jare Powa Jay" (That which is not sought, is found), situating it within the broader context of Rabindra Sangeet and exploring its complex metaphysical paradoxes. Through an interdisciplina...

Se embarcó a la edad de 4 años desde Génova con destino al Río de la Plata en 1926, luego realizó viajes a Italia en 1961, 1964 y 1969 y finalmente a partir de 1984 regresó a Cesena, su ciudad natal. En la vida de Alma Novella Marani (1922 - 2002), investigadora, crítica literaria, traductora y profesora universitaria, la experiencia del viaje atra...

This paper aims to analyze the by discussing the role of Goriot, his fatherly love for his daughters and the contradiction between these feelings and the class structure of the French society at that time, and reveals how Balzac used the literary form to criticize the class solidification and the decline of morality in the 19th century French socie...

Coordinated by Emanuela Ilie (Associate Professor, PhD, at the Faculty of Letters, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, literary critic, and member of the Writers’ Union of Romania), Un Dicționar al Exilului Feminin Românesc: Autoare Emblematice, Volume Reprezentative [A dictionary of Romanian women writers’ literary exile: Emblematic authors, r...

Feminism has been a driving force for change in literature since 18 century. This essay offers an insightful look at the evolution of feminist theory through a literary lens. From the postfeminist thought from the Middle Ages onwards, the rise of second-wave feminism and maps its interventions across the twentieth century, to impact of postmodernis...

سنحاول في هذه الورقة البحثية الحديث عن النقد الثقافي وأهدافه ووظيفته وكيف تعامل مع النص الإبداعي، وعن ذلك التحوّل الكبير الذي طرأ على الآلة النقدية؛ من الأدبي إلى الثقافي، ومن النّص إلى الخطاب، ما جعل سمة النقد الثقافي التوسّع والرحابة في ميدان الدراسة، واتساع معنى النّص الذي لم يعد يعني فقط النّص الأدبي، بل تعداه وتجاوزه إلى خطابات أخرى من الإبداع...

During the latter half of the 17th century, both history and the novel fell victim to an identity crisis, finding themselves in a precarious position. On the one hand, historical Pyrrhonism disrupted the way History was perceived, casting doubt on its validity and accuracy. On the other hand, the novel, a disregarded genre lacking literary prestige...

Compte tenu du degré de ressemblance entre la littérature et les sociétés humaines, on est convaincu que la littérature n'est pas seulement une construction sociale qui s'enracine dans de simples idées, imaginations ou situations imaginaires. Il s'agit plutôt d'une institution sociale, d'une forme de tradition qui existe depuis longtemps et qui est...

Literary criticism has substantially investigated Jean Toomer’s pioneering work Cane (1923), focusing in particular on its inaugural contribution to modernist African American literature and its exploration of the racial and socio-cultural dynamics of the time. Nevertheless, an exhaustive apprehension of the intrinsic correlation between his delibe...

Nilo Cruz is a famous contemporary Cuban-American playwright. His Pulitzer Prize-winning play Anna in the Tropics has always been the subject of commentary and analysis by literary critics. This article, from the research perspective of character image, believes that Juan Julian, the central character of the whole play, contains three layers of ima...

Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby1925) stands as a seminal critique of the American Dream, exposing the moral bankruptcy beneath its glittering facade. This study interrogates how Fitzgerald employs narrative technique, symbolic imagery, and historical context to deconstruct the illusion of reinvention and upward mobility in Jazz Age America. Through...

Resumo Este trabalho é fruto de um dos ensaios produzidos da tese Nós: afetos e literatura, defendida no ano de 2021. Nela, produzi uma crítica literária que contribui de maneira sensível e atenta às dimensões diversas e complexas que envolvem as produções literárias negras e das dissidências sexuais e de gênero, no intuito de flagrar como são feit...

Este trabajo de tesis procura profundizar la relación entre las múltiples zonas de la producción literaria de Piglia (que se interconectan y alimentan mutuamente): El ensayo literario y la ficción, las teorías de la literatura, las formas breves y la historización de la literatura argentina, con sus cartografías literarias y sus hipótesis sobre la...

Récemment, nous assistons de plus en plus à l’émergence des œuvres littéraires francophones par les écrivains nigérians dans la critique littéraire africaine. Tout comme le roman, le théâtre nigérian d’expression française fait la critique de la situation sociopolitique de l’Afrique postcoloniale. Les écrivains nigérians francophones ne voulant pas...

I artikeln görs en analys på två nivåer av novellen ”Fröken Strandberg”, som ingår i novellsamlingen Kvinnor och andra berättelser (1897) av den bortglömda författaren Olga Torckell. Nivåerna förenas av ett transtemporalt perspektiv på litteraturen. För det första diskuteras bortglömmandet av verket och författaren i litteraturhistorien med utgångs...

The purpose of the publication is to introduce into the scientific space of Ukraine a translation from the ancient Greek of one of the works of the most eloquent among the early Christian apologists, Athenagoras of Athens – "Embassy for the Christians". The style of his works and the way of expressing his thoughts reveal his prominent knowledge of...

This essay will examine how classical Arabic poets portrayed black women, considering whether their portrayals stemmed from cultural bias, admiration, or a combination of both. Although racial hierarchies existed in Medieval Arabic literature, counter-narratives also recognized the dignity and contributions of black men/women. By placing classical...

Este artigo investiga os sentidos com que a denúncia social do romance O moleque Ricardo, de José Lins do Rego, foi recepcionada pela crítica especializada da época. Parte dela, ao se deparar com uma obra que tinha como pano de fundo a questão social no Recife do início do século XX, relacionou-a à estética proletária. Outros intérpretes perceberam...

Shortly after the First World War, the French literary critic and historian Henri Massis (1886-1970) preached a crusade against the dangers threatening European values and thought – largely identified with those of France, in his mind. He wasn't entirely misguided: across the world, colonised nations were in revolt. He wrote: “The future of western...

The Resistance War of 1937-1945 is the centerpiece of contemporary Chinese nationalism and contention over war memory has long exacerbated China-Japan frictions. The present blogged article by the dissident Christian writer Yu Jie, building on an earlier statement by literary critic Ge Hongbing, is both a rare challenge to the Chinese Communist Par...

The Assessment of Park Chung Hee, the brutal dictator who many credit with launching South Korea's accelerated economic development, is central to debates on Korean democracy, development and independence. Paik Nak-chung, distinguished literary critic and a leading Korean public intellectual, delivered this keynote address to the International Kore...

Maternal care plays a critical role in shaping the emotional and psychological development of human being’s early life. The absence of maternal care, can lead to long-term challenges, including emotional dysregulation, low self-esteem, and difficulty forming secure attachments. Maternal deprivation refers to the lack of adequate maternal care and e...

The dogmatic approach to theology in the modern era, the relationship between philosophy and theology is an important part that supports each other in a constructive direction. This is different when entering the postmodern era with its literary criticism. The foundation of dogmatic theology and philosophy based on language becomes a very radical c...

This research undertakes a critical examination of the representation of disability in literature through a comparative analysis of two thematically aligned yet structurally distinct texts: One Little Finger by Malini Chib and Tara by Mahesh Dattani. One Little Finger, an autobiographical account authored by a woman with cerebral palsy, offers a fi...

The paper engages trauma as an unrepresented phenomenon in the classic model; hence, it tries to illustrate the pervasive impact it exerts on literary criticism and cultural discourse. Grounding on Cathy Caruth's notion of trauma as an unreceived experience that surfaces and haunts the survivor, the paper identifies intricacies surrounding the dyna...

This paper seeks to portray the employment of symbolism as connected with certain manifestations of nature in Thomas Hardy’s novels from an ecocritical perspective. It examines Hardy's symbolic use of natural aspects, including flowers, trees, animals and other elements of the pure Wessex landscape of Hardy’s novels. The significance of this resear...

This paper presents post-doctoral research that delved into the study of literacies, specifically literary, critical, and literacies of re-existence. The main objective is to present the Brazilian educational project of Coletivo da Guilhermina, which organises and holds the São Paulo Inter-school Slam every year, and the French Association Le Panor...

This paper seeks to portray the employment of symbolism as connected with certain manifestations of nature in Thomas Hardy's novels from an ecocritical perspective. It examines Hardy's symbolic use of natural aspects, including flowers, trees, animals and other elements of the pure Wessex landscape of Hardy's novels. The significance of this resear...

The short story ‘Istri Prajurit’ by Nh. Dini is one of the Indonesian literary works that reflects the values of feminism through the characters Ningsih and Aku. This research aims to analyze three indicators of feminism, namely discrimination, emancipation, and women's power, using a descriptive qualitative approach that integrates literature stud...

This paper explores the ethical dilemmas within the capitalist framework depicted in Aravind Adiga’s novels, focusing on The White Tiger, Last Man in Tower, and Selection Day. It critically examines the tension between morality and materialism, analyzing how Adiga’s protagonists navigate corrupt socio-economic structures to achieve success. By draw...

This study aims to analyzed the use of personification and satire in Pulang by Leila S. Chudori using a hermeneutic approach to uncover their deeper meanings and social critiques. This study explores the meaning of personification and satire in Pulang by Leila S. Chudori using a hermeneutic approach to reveal how figurative language reflects Indone...

Francisco González Gaxiola (Mocorito Sinaloa, 1948) es esa clase de profesores de literatura que buscó formar mentes creativas, inquietas y críticas. Formador de escritores por más de 25 años en el género autobiográfico y a través de ese mismo género nos cuenta cómo surgió su encanto por el lenguaje, las letras y su encuentro con la docencia. A tra...

Jin Shengtan was a prominent literary theorist and critic during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties in China, whose influence reached far beyond his homeland. In the mid-18th century, his annotated editions of Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan) and Romance of the Western Chamber (Xixiang ji) were introduced to Korea, where they quickly gained widespre...

Several critical theories have emerged throughout the history of literary criticism, evolving with the different stages and eras in which they developed. One such theory, reception theory, originated in response to the critiques of Russian constructivists and formalists. Established in the early 1970s by Hans-Robert Jauss and Wolfgang Iser, this th...

This study aimed to explore the concept of time as presented by writers of the Modernist movement, focusing on an analysis of two modernist literary works-James Joyce's Ulysses and William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. These two authors introduced innovative literary techniques in their works, stressing the experience of time in a chaotic worl...

Machado de Assis é um dos autores brasileiros a quem a crítica literária mais tem se dedicado. Isso se deve não apenas à vasta produção do pai de Capitu, mas também à qualidade de sua narrativa, especialmente no que tange às obras publicadas a partir de 1880. Com uma produção literária que se destaca pela sua qualidade narrativa, ressalta-se uma pr...

This article aims to examine the trajectory of concrete poetry within the intellectual debates in São Paulo from the mid-1950s to the 1970s. First, it explores how the three poets of Noigandres transitioned from their origins in law school to literary supplements, influenced by the renewal of literary criticism and the shifting criteria of interpre...

This study critically examines the presentations of white supremacy and racial discrimination in Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing, focusing on the psychological, social, and economic impacts of colonialism in Southern Rhodesia. Through a detailed analysis of the characters, particularly Mary Turner and Moses, the study explores how Lessing crit...

How is food portrayed in Arabic novels? In literature, food is more than mere sustenance—it carries layered meanings. This multilingual collection brings together experts in Arabic literature to examine the complex representations of food and eating. Through themes such as dining rituals, foodstuffs, animal consumption, memory, food habits, and hun...

This paper examines the complex journey of Astha, the main character in Manju Kapur’s “A Married Woman”, as she balances societal expectations and personal interests. The novel depicts the life of an Indian woman, encapsulated in the life of Astha, who transforms from an obedient daughter and dutiful wife into a woman striving for autonomy, emotion...

This article examines the relationship between secularism and literary criticism. When viewed from the perspective of academic and literary traditions in the West, it is easy to see that secularism, which has left almost no area untouched by its dominance, continues to maintain the same dominant attitude when it comes to literary criticism. This si...

This research paper explores the transformation of literary expression from traditional manuscript writing to digital and AIassisted authorship. The study investigates historical shifts in literary technology, the role of artificial intelligence in creative writing, and the implications of AI-generated literaature. By analyzing key works, theoretic...

p>Jin Shengtan was a prominent literary critic in China during the Ming–Qing period. He laid the foundation for a personalized system of literary criticism that emphasized emotional response, aesthetic intuition, and humanistic values in engaging with literary works. This paper explores the influence of Jin Shengtan on Vietnamese literary critical...

This article challenges gendered master narratives by incorporating interactive read-alouds in three bilingual classrooms in the Southwest U.S. Using a Latina/Latino Critical Race Theory (LatCrit) framework, data in the form of recorded bilingual read-alouds, classroom discussions, and writing extension activities were collected and analyzed. The o...

Two questions guide the historiographical analysis: How can linguistic ideologies be analyzed in the history of linguistic knowledge? What is the role of denying this knowledge in the critical review of the history of Brazilian linguistics? The analytical perspective is framed by the concept of linguistic ideologies-prescriptive positions (scientif...

This article offers a critical examination of Eka Kurniawan’s novel Seperti Dendam, Rindu Harus Dibayar Tuntas (Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash) through the lens of feminist literary criticism, with a particular emphasis on the theme of female resistance against systemic gender inequality. The film adaptation brings to the forefront the mult...

Literature has long served as a powerful medium for shaping human perspectives on nature and the environment. This paper explores the role of literature in fostering environmental consciousness through ecocritical perspectives in modern English literature. Ecocriticism, as a literary and cultural approach, examines the relationship between literatu...

This paper aims to draw a route map for a distinctly Indian ecofeminist literary pedagogy that would encourage and equip literature students to address the growing ecological challenges. Ecofeminist literary criticism which remained an extremely marginal presence in Indian academia for over a decade has recently seen a surge in interest with the pu...

This study discusses the analysis of meaning contained in the poem titled “Bersamamu” (“With You”). The main purpose of this research is to reveal and describe the meanings behind each word in the poem. As a literary work, poetry has the power to convey the writer's inner feelings and experiences deeply, thus requiring an appropriate approach to fu...

Students undertaking a close reading and scholars studying the practice ask the same question: What exactly is “close reading”? While we now associate the phrase with literary critics of the 1930s–1950s, they themselves infrequently invoked it as a term of art. Since then, scholars have struggled to define close reading beyond the vague notion of r...

Today, there are new approaches in the field of literary criticism, one of which is psychoanalytical criticism. Psychoanalytic criticism is a form of literary criticism that applies some themes and methods of psychoanalysis to literary texts and gives interpretations of these texts. One of the theories put forth in this field is Ervin Yalom's psych...

This book presents a transcultural, metaphysical, and philosophical re-reading of Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet through the lens of Ferenc Lengyel's Cycles of the Soul, Echoes of Civilizations. Framing British colonialism as the final karmic incarnation of a Western soul-form, the study maps how imperial ideologies undergo metaphysical dissolution a...

The African proverb that 'a set of white teeth does not indicate a pure heart' aptly illustrates the relationship that exists between Africa and the West. Colonization, which is the image of friendship with the White man, turns out to be a curse rather than a blessing. The Africans in their brotherhood temperament happily offer a handshake with the...

The Expressive Theory is the anchor and leverage point of autobiography, a non-fictional presentation of the author by himself. This paper examines the autobiographies of Camara Laye's The African Child and Francis Selormey's The Narrow Path. Each of them represents the experiences of the author as a growing child. It is the picture of the author a...