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In 1917–1921, being the first Professor of World Literature at the recently (1914) opened Saratov University, young Victor M. Zhirmunsky taught general courses in World literature – and seminar “Byron’s Contemporaries in Literature”, which concentrated on literary sources for Byron’s poems and their influence on Russian poetry. Zhirmunsky’s letter...

Prameha, a significant disorder in Ayurveda, is mentioned in ancient texts with details on its causes, symptoms, and treatment. Classified as one of the eight major diseases (Ashtamahagada), it is linked to conditions like Diabetes Mellitus, which is projected to rise globally. Ayurveda describes 20 types of Prameha, with Shuklameha caused by Kapha...

This collection re-imagines language and communication through an ethnographic sociolinguistic lens, foregrounding perspectives on collective projects that grapple with the relationship between past, present, and future towards confronting structural inequalities. Bringing together work from critical sociolinguistics as well as related scholarship...

RESUMO O presente artigo propõe que a hesitação é a chave para a compreensão do gênero literário do Fantástico, proposto em Introdução à Literatura Fantástica (1970), de Tzvetan Todorov. A partir da contextualização do momento em que o teórico da literatura búlgaro produziu esta obra, e da análise das definições que propõe para o Fantástico e seus...

Âşık Ömer is one of the most important poets known for his folk poetry who lived in the 17th century. In his works, it is evident that Ömer wrote poetry in the aruz meter in the style of the divan poets of the period in addition to his folk poetry. There are several copies of the works written by Aşık Ömer. After compiling "Âşık Ömer Divanı" by Orh...

Discourse on mental health has increasingly become central in contemporary literary studies, particularly in analysing the psychological consequences of societal dysfunction. This paper employs trauma theory to examine how Biyi Bandele-Thomas's The Sympathetic Undertaker and Other Dreams explores psychosis as metaphor for disillusionment and psycho...

The folklore of Jaka Tarub comes from Central Java which tells the story of a village youth named Jaka Tarub, who is known to be brave and an expert hunter who married an angel. This study aims to analyze the moral values contained in the folklore of Jaka Tarub. This story was chosen because it is one of Indonesia's traditional legends that is full...

This article argues that a public education in method—specifically, close reading—is the only viable role for literary studies within the public humanities. Drawing on recent discussions about the uses of the public humanities—and setting itself against recent interventions that have proclaimed a different public role for public literary studies—th...

The present paper embarks on a journey through the interface of literature and digital humanities, exploring the transformational impact of technology on the study, analysis, and interpretation of literary works. As the digital landscape unfurls with time, the scholars and researchers are beckoned forth into the realms of literary exploration hithe...

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...

Call for Papers até 15 de outubro Na sequência das edições anteriores, a VI Conferência Internacional sobre Literaturas e Culturas Africanas, Ibero-Americanas e Caribenhas, que este ano homengeará António Januário Leite (1867-1930)-, poeta cabo-verdiano e Yuyé Hernández Nicolás (1980-), artista plástica afromexicana, e Aleida Violeta Vázquez Cisner...

Este texto es un homenaje conmemorativo al centenario del nacimiento de Emilio Alarcos Llorach. El artículo combina el análisis académico con una memoria personal, subrayando la influencia humana y científica de Alarcos en varias generaciones de lingüistas. Se enfatiza su capacidad innovadora, su claridad expositiva, y su sensibilidad poética, que...

En el presente trabajo se ofrece una semblanza académica de la trayectoria intelectual de Emilio Alarcos Llorach (1922-1998). Para ello, se tienen en cuenta sus principales publicaciones —desde Investigaciones sobre el “Libro de Alexandre” (1948) hasta La poesía de Blas de Otero (1997)— atendiendo a sus aportaciones fundamentales en los ámbitos de...

This research examines the structure of the oral poetic “text” in a Serbian heroic epic poem, with particular emphasis on the episode as a core unit of narrativity and its role in shaping the perception of reality. Specifically, the study explores how episodes contribute to constructing a distinct worldview. It will be demonstrated that, as a fragm...

Este artigo propõe a análise contrastiva da linguagem poética de Emily Dickinson e de Florbela Espanca, com foco no uso simbólico da cor branca em alguns de seus poemas. O trabalho explora a maneira como ambas as poetas utilizam a cor branca para expressar emoções complexas e abordar temas como a morte e a dor. A análise identifica e discute as nua...

This article explores Virginia Woolf’s 1927 essay “Street Haunting: A London Adventure” and its depiction of female flânerie in the city. It begins by observing the importance of place in literary studies and the shift towards a “spatial turn” in contemporary scholarship. The text then examines the role of the city in modernist literature, particul...

This study¹ examines the processes of resistance and emancipation present in the works of Brazilian writer Conceição Evaristo, specifically in her concept of escrevivência [writing lived experience], and how readings of her work can be important for confronting structural racism. The research starts from the premise that literature can be a powerfu...

This study examines the poem Sajak Sebatang Lisong by W.S. Rendra through a postcolonial lens, focusing on the underlying social criticism embedded within the text. The poem reflects the persistent social inequalities that continue to affect Indonesian society in the post-independence era, particularly in the realms of education and the marginaliza...

This study¹ examines the processes of resistance and emancipation present in the works of Brazilian writer Conceição Evaristo, specifically in her concept of escrevivência [writing lived experience], and how readings of her work can be important for confronting structural racism. The research starts from the premise that literature can be a powerfu...

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...

This paper discusses the manuscript collection of J.L. Moens, which contains many narratives of wayang plays. Most of the manuscripts come from the Yogyakarta puppetry tradition within the popular tradition originating from Yogyakarta and its surrounding areas. In addition to the narratives, these Javanese script texts are adorned with illustration...

This study aims to elucidate the five dimensions of religiosity as theorized by Glock and Stark. These dimensions are identified within the novel Kembara Rindu by Habiburrahman El Shirazy. The characters in the novel represent individuals who narrate their daily lives within an Islamic milieu. The narrative presents various manifestations of religi...

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...

En el presente trabajo se ofrece una revisión diacrónica del texto Literatura y saber del profesor Antonio Chicharro Chamorro, con el propósito de demostrar que, paradójicamente, dicho texto se subleva contra su intención inicial de operar como una simple nota introductoria y se instituye como referente teórico plenamente consolidado. Según se obse...

The lexical decision task was used in this study to evaluate the cognitive processes of word processing in English Literature students. This study focuses into the distinctive characteristics of word processing in people who are proficient in English literature, specifically how their literary analytical abilities impact lexical judgment problems....

This article examines the role of fictional dialogue in character development in Tshikhusese Nelson Makuya’s anthology of short stories, particularly in his 1972 collection A zwi faneli. Fictional dialogue is a vital literary device that reveals the complexities of characters’ identities, motivations and cultural backgrounds, yet it remains underex...

This article analyzes the role of representatives of Jadid literature at the beginning of the 20th century in the formation and development of the Uzbek school of translation. The impact of the translations made by Jadids on the development of not only cultural and educational, but also linguistics, literary studies and national thought is shown

By reading other people's stories and poems, one makes mental or spiritual contact with them. Cognitive literary studies understands the functioning of the brain as a mechanism by which and in which reading occurs as a program, a cognitive process whose goal is to decipher the meaning of a written text. In this sense, reading stories or poems impli...

The two complementary aims of this article are a terminological and genological analysis of weird fiction, as well as the identification of similarities and differences between this genre and horror in cognitive-aesthetic, semantic and pragmatic terms. The main thesis is that weird fiction is a separate literary genre and cannot be equated with hor...

This article focuses on studying the imprint of three religions in the royal poetry of the Nguyen dynasty from the perspective of content. The research is conducted by surveying the characteristics of three ideological streams reflected through the thematic system and main content of 90 poems belonging to the royal poetry group of the Nguyen dynast...

The increased digitization of world's textual heritage poses significant challenges for both computer science and literary studies. Overall, there is an urgent need of computational techniques able to adapt to the challenges of historical texts, such as orthographic and spelling variations, fragmentary structure and digitization errors. The rise of...

This paper explores including Global South fiction in English literature classes and its part in promoting higher education decolonization. To investigate these matters, the study conducted curriculum analysis, interviewed both teachers and students and observed classes at three universities (one in the North and two in the South). It has been show...

Similar to other countries from Central and South-Eastern Europe, Romania’s cultural field developed as a literature-centric system. Throughout the process of nation-making and state-building that unfolded starting with the early nineteenth century, literary figures (writers, poets, and other men of letters) have played a critical role in shaping R...

Reading literary texts in their original version presents notable challenges in the Swiss lower secondary English language classroom. Not only are students' English language skills still developing, but teachers often lack methodological support. This article outlines a design-based research study aimed at addressing these issues. Two teaching sequ...

Resumo No campo dos estudos literários, o método quantiqualitativo, conhecido como estilometria literária e estatística textual, vem ganhando destaque. Esse tipo de pesquisa se caracteriza pelo uso de ferramentas computacionais no contexto da cultura digital, que realizam análises rápidas e precisas de elementos estilísticos para identificar autore...

Die Interaktion zwischen Text und Lesenden beschreibbar machen. Diese Arbeit leistet einen wesentlichen Beitrag zu den Grundlagen der Leseforschung und eröffnet ein Diskussionsfeld, auf dem sich die Frage nach der Bedeutung des Lesens für die Literaturwissenschaft einerseits und die ästhetische Rezeption von Lesetexten andererseits neu stellt. Dabe...

Background: Ayurveda has accepted the importance of Prameha Vyadhi using detailed knowledge in all classical Ayurveda Texts, which is responsible for all the physiological and functional disabilities. The significance of this vyadhi (Disease) is that it seeks to correlate with the modern aspect of Prameha Vyadhi. Hence, out of all types of Prameha...

As one of the trauma responses, nausea is a protective mechanism that warns the body to avoid potential toxic ingestion. The representation of nausea in trauma fiction symbolizes the body’s impulsive reaction to the repressed emotions through agonizing events in order to safeguard the body from the potential “toxicity” of the incident. In Junot Dia...

Les défis de la décolonisation et les transformations postcoloniales ont inspiré de nombreux intellectuels et écrivains pour questionner les relations entre le Nord et le Sud ainsi que la hiérarchisation des médias, formats et genres d’expressions culturels qui en découlent, notamment par la mise en question des canons littéraires européens. Cette...

Introduction Understanding how humans perceive and engage with fictional characters—particularly antagonists—offers valuable insights into narrative comprehension and moral cognition. Antagonists, as morally complex figures, challenge readers’ ethical frameworks and stimulate affective and cognitive responses. This review aims to synthesize current...

This study formalizes a computational model to simulate classical Persian poets' dynamics of influence through constructing a multi-dimensional similarity network. Using a rigorously curated dataset based on Ganjoor's corpus, we draw upon semantic, lexical, stylistic, thematic, and metrical features to demarcate each poet's corpus. Each is containe...

სტატიაში ვსაუბრობთ იმ ძირეული კონცეპტუალური საკითხების შესახებ, რომელთა გადმოცემაც სურდა ავტორს პოემით. “Hermit” by Ilya Chavchavadze: Concept Summary Key words: “Hermit”, allegory underlying, knowledge, wisdom. The publication is an attempted interpretation of “Hermit”, a long poem by Ilya Chavchavadze. “Why did Ilya Chavchavadze write “Hermit” i...

This paper examines the portrayal of subaltern women and their resistance against patriarchal and socio-cultural constraints in Indira Goswami’s ‘The Moth-Eaten Howdah of the Tusker’ and Anita Desai’s ‘Fire on the Mountain’ Through a postcolonial and feminist lens, it analyzes how Goswami and Desai depict marginalized female characters—widows and i...

Este libro es el resultado de años de trabajo y dedicación de la Carrera de Letras de la Universidad de Oriente en el estudio, rescate y conservación del patrimonio literario y cultural de la región oriental de Cuba. A lo largo del tiempo, la labor académica de la Cátedra Hermanos Henríquez Ureña ha generado un valioso acervo de investigaciones que...

EUrope : cultures, mémoires, identités/ EUrope: cultures, memories, identities (ISSN 3091 – 0315) est une revue semestrielle multidisciplinaire consacrée notamment à l’étude de la dynamique des mémoires et des représentations culturelles-identitaires repérables dans l’espace européen des XXe – XXIe siècles. En se proposant d’offrir un forum pour le...

Zusammenfassung In diesem Beitrag untersuchen wir die Nützlichkeit von Künstlicher Intelligenz für die literaturwissenschaftliche Forschung anhand von zwei dafür typischen Tätigkeiten. In zwei Experimentreihen mit großen Sprachmodellen wurden einerseits Annotationen für einen literarischen Text erstellt und andererseits der Text von drei Unterabsch...

Many worldwide initiatives demonstrate how education has reoriented to address sustainability, encourage university professors to leave their ivory towers, and connect the traditional classroom to civic development by providing society with services. Significant strides have been made to support and optimize service-learning for several academic di...

Reseña de: Antonio Sánchez Jiménez, Lope de Vega: poesías escogidas, Jaén, Universidad de Jaén, (Colección Biblioteca de Estudios Literarios Hispánicos), 2023, 480 pp., ISBN: 978-84-9159-550-2

The article is devoted to the identification of promising scientific subject areas of the region on the basis of structural analysis of statistical information at the regional, national and worldwide levels. Such an approach will help to determine the trends formed in the national science and in the world scientific community. The study is based on...

This article argues for a formalist approach to biological individuality, bridging formalist ways of reading in cultural and literary studies with contemporary debates in the philosophy of biology. Central to this discussion is the idea that the question of what constitutes an individual, spanning across domains such as biology, politics, law, and...

This paper investigates exile in the poems 'Another Planet,' 'I Was in a Hurry'and 'America' by the Iraqi-American poet Dunya Mikhail. It clarifies the intricacies Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies (JoALLS)

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...

Detective fiction, a genre defined by its complex narrative structures and character-driven storytelling, presents unique challenges for computational narratology, a research field focused on integrating literary theory into automated narrative generation. While traditional literary studies have offered deep insights into the methods and archetypes...

Escrituras y figuras de la errancia en la narrativa de Onetti Y yo, me gusta que se entienda, no andaba ni iba derrengándome a lo largo de la costa buscando inventar María alejandra Alí Biblioteca Nacional de Uruguay 1 Résumé : Bastante antes de exiliarse en España durante los años setenta por cuestiones políticas (en una década marcada por los gob...

El biográfico familiar es un subgénero novelesco nacido en el siglo XIX, que ha demostrado su enorme productividad al extenderse de forma espectacular desde las páginas a las pantallas. Directores como Pedro Almodóvar han construido su carrera con numerosas películas biográfico familiares, representando así un conflicto típicamente moderno como es...

Este artigo se propõe a analisar como o contexto histórico de Ilhéus, no interior da Bahia, durante a década de 1920, aparece na obra Gabriela, cravo e canela (1958), de Jorge Amado. O objetivo é compreender como a história pode servir para o escritor na criação da sua obra literária, assim como a literatura pode servir para o historiador na criaçã...

This study presents a bibliometric and textual analysis of 268 scholarly works on Nepali literature, examining patterns of authorship, institutional collaboration, and thematic evolution. Using VOSviewer for network visualization and WordSift for textual mining, the research reveals a fragmented yet internationalized academic field, with notable im...

Colonialism, far from being a mere economic enterprise, functioned as a mechanism of moral corruption and ideological domination. The study interrogates Heart of Darkness as a textual space where the moral corruption and economic rapacity of colonialism are unmasked, with a particular emphasis on the novel’s depiction of the ivory trade and the sys...

This study analyzes the relationship between physical structure and inner structure in the poem Kangen by W.S. Rendra which is included in the book Empat Kumpulan Sajak in the Malam Stanza section, so that the study can contribute to literary studies by providing additional insight into the poet's interpretation in conveying the contents of the poe...

O livro Dom Casmurro, escrito por Machado de Assis em 1899, é uma das mais reconhecidas obras da literatura brasileira, por suscitar debates em campos adjacentes aos estudos literários e áreas transdisciplinares, a exemplo da perspectiva que atrela literatura à psicologia. A narrativa apresenta o protagonista, Bentinho, que desconfiado de uma possí...

The research contains a lifelike description of climate change representation in the literature or literary genres. The world is changing geographically, politically, and economically. Realistically, all the events and crises of climate change that occur in the world through an unexpected or unprecedented period on the regional or global level. The...

The recorded history of Turkish is based on the Orhun Inscriptions, which are believed to date back to the 8th century. This indicates that Turkish has been used as a written and spoken language for at least 13 centuries. Today, Turkish is a major world language spoken and written by more than 220 million people in a geographical area of 12 million...

У статті розглядається потенціал філологічної освіти щодо формування базових цінностей Європейського Союзу у майбутніх педагогів-словесників. Зазначається, що система освіти відіграє ключову роль у трансформаційних процесах суспільства, сприяючи розвитку демократичних принципів, толерантності, поваги до прав людини та багатоманітності культур. Анал...

This study aims to describe and analyze the use of ontological metaphors in the novel Cala Ibi by Nukila Amal. Ontological metaphor is a type of conceptual metaphor that describes abstract concepts such as emotions, time, or ideas as concrete entities that can act like human beings. The research method used is descriptive qualitative with data coll...

Nizami Ganjavi is one of the artists who created a school after him and maintained his sphere of influence for centuries. We can see the effects of his creativity not only in the literature of the Turkic peoples, but also in the literature of other peoples. The poet's artistic heritage has always been the focus of literary studies, and has been inv...

Broadly speaking, the relationship between human society and the environment has become a subject of pressing concern in recent years, particularly in the context of accelerating climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation. Within English literary studies, the emergence of ecocriticism as a critical framework has offered new in...

This study explores H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds(1897) through the lens of digital humanism as defined by Martin Paul Eve and Jonathan Gray in Digital Humanities and Literary Studies (2022), analyzing how the novel critiques technological dominance, imperialism, and human fragility. Using a qualitative approach, this research examines how Well...

Recognising the unique needs of Deaf friends, who often struggle with sensory, communication, behavioural, and activity constraints, is crucial. In interaction, conflicts arising from misunderstandings may occur, which lead to various negative emotions such as anger, hatred, silence, avoidance, gossip, and dissatisfaction. This study addresses the...

This open access book contributes to the mobility humanities from the perspective of postcolonial literary mobilities and aims at enhancing dialogue between mobilities research and postcolonial literary studies. The study produces new perspectives on Afroeuropean mobilities in Francophone African and Afrodiasporic literatures from the mid-twentieth...

Derrida’s theory of deconstruction has drawn the attention of several scholars in the fields of academia including language. While deconstructionism has provided a new lens to viewing reality, the philosophical ideas associated with deconstructionism have tended to be complex to understand particularly to the beginners of language and literary stud...

Imagology is one of the modern and important topics in comparative literary studies, the importance of this topic is in the fact that it is a connecting bridge that introduces two nations to one another via researching each other’s literature. The thoughts, images and obstacles in the mind towards the other are rectified, learning about the other’s...

This study explores the symbolic significance of spatial thresholds particularly windows and doors in Mohsin Hamid's short story Of Windows and Doors (2016). Utilizing trauma theory as the primary analytical framework, the research investigates how these architectural elements reflect the protagonist's internal states, including emotional rupture,...

Loneliness, characterized by feelings of emptiness, isolation, and longing, is a complex emotional experience with significant psychological and social implications. This research discusses the sense of loneliness in Sara Teasdale’s poems: “Alone”, “Ebb Tide”, “Sleepless”, “The Treasure”, “Compensation”, and “Deep in the Night”. The aims of this re...

This paper challenges the typical function of narrative in the medical humanities to advocate for a medical post humanities: an approach that destabilizes the centrality of "the human" and instead embraces patient narratives that are embodied, fragmented, and provisional. To make this claim, we first challenge the stability of the “humanity” descri...

The study deals with the issue of acquisition of digital literary data, specifically prose texts of Czech literature, which the data would serve for independent scientific research in the context of digital humanities, or computational literary studies. In the first part, we focus on selected available foreign textual databases, which we characteri...

This study explores the manifestation of eco-anxiety in the poetic works of Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, two eminent figures of the Romantic movement, whose literary expressions encapsulate profound ecological concerns. Romanticism, as a literary and philosophical movement, emphasized the sublime beauty of nature while simultaneously expres...

Manshūrāt Fidā'iyyah 'alā Judrān Isrāīl is one of the iconic Palestinian resistance literature pieces composed by Nizar Qabbani. Although several scholars have analysed the poem, none have focused on the meaning and value of resistance. For this reason, this study aims to identify metaphors to emphasise the spirit of resistance in the poem. The des...

La relevancia del canon literario radica en su función como mecanismo de construcción y reflejo de una identidad colectiva mediante la selección y preservación de obras de valor cultural. La inclusión de un autor dentro del canon pedagógico facilita su permanencia y legitimidad, destacando la interacción entre académicos, críticos e instituciones e...

As translated Japanese literature crosses over to become world literature, there still are Orientalist assumptions about modern Japanese literature across the global academy at large, as of limited scope, rejecting fictionalization, and exploring states of mind. The objective of this essay is to counter essentialist and dated assumptions about mode...

Although there has been an increasing focus on religious and spiritual experience in literary studies within the context of post-critical and post-secular movements, much of the research is framed around the idea of “upward transcendence” in redemption narratives. This focus tends to overlook the negative aspects of life, such as absurdity, meaning...

This article addresses a topic unexplored in national literary studies: the literary process within the Karachay-Balkar diaspora in countries formed after the collapse of the USSR, specifically Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The aim of this scholarly work is to assess the state of the literary process within the diaspora, to identify authors living far...

The multi-cultural structure of the erstwhile colonial powers, of late has been a significant factor of discussion and analysis in literature and other branches of knowledge. The new multicultural structure of Britain gave rise to literature not only by the native English white wo/men but also by some others belonging to different cultural and ethn...

Male gaze, female thingification, and other forms of marginalities related to gender homogeny have been controversial topics for discussion in film and literary studies. Consequently, extensive scholarly researches have been done to examine the foibles across these scopes of study. This study contributes to the existing discourse by examining the m...

Abstract of Paper presented at the I Hawaiʻi International Conference on Film, Literature & Culture, hosted by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and held April 15-17, 2025. The Hawaiʻi International Conference on Film, Literature & Culture is a collaborative effort between the Department of Languages and Literatures of Europe and the Americas (LLE...

Este artículo exhuma clases de la cátedra liderada por Noé Jitrik en la Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina) durante la llamada «universidad montonera» (1973-1974). Más precisamente, describe las intervenciones realizadas por quienes no formaron parte del elenco estable del equipo. Estxs agentes consolidaron un uso poco ortodoxo de las teorías (...

Virtual schooling can be seen as a phenomenon that is going to contribute significantly to the development of all areas of human society. The professional interest of the authors of the paper is focused on the use of virtual reality in education in general, and specifically on the issue of replacing field excursions with their virtual alternatives...

ملخص البحث: يهدف هذا البحث إلى التعرف على أبعاد توظيف الموروث الشعبي في الشعر الإماراتي، كما يهدف إلى الغوص في طبيعة المصادر التراثية التي أفاد منها الشاعر الإماراتي. وتكمن أهميته في رصد مظاهر توظيف الشعر للموروث الشعبي باعتباره رافداً مهماً من الروافد الثقافية التي أمدت الشعراء بالكثير من الرموز والدلالات والوقوف على مدى تأثير هذا الموروث في البن...

“Ensayos de literatura santandereana” es una compilación de estudios sociales y culturales sobre obras y autores asociados con la literatura de Santander y la literatura creada por santandereanos y santandereanas. El autor apela para ello a la representación histórica que ha contribuido a la construcción del imaginario cultural del territorio de Sa...

It has long been a common place in literary studies the idea that literature, through its fictional representations, offers not only distinct experiences through contact with art, but also a significant form of cognitive value. Because of this, it is not uncommon to find recommendations to read classics due to their potential formative value for th...

This study meticulously examines the influence of Arab literary traditions on the troubadour poetry of medieval Europe, particularly within the regions of Occitania and Southern France. Employing a Comparative Cultural Analysis, the research highlights the thematic and stylistic intersections between these two distinct yet interconnected literary t...

Since 2013, Poetry in America has evolved as an educational initiative from large, open-enrollment online courses, to a TV series, and a suite of educational programs supporting learners from middle school to adulthood, dual enrollment high school students pursuing college credit, current classroom teachers, and teachers in training. Contextualizin...

Quando aplicado a realidades africanas, o termo cosmopolitismo tem, em anos recentes, dado lugar à formulação do afropolitismo. Não obstante os problemas que tal rótulo levanta e a sua natu-reza um pouco escorregadia (ver a introdução de James Hodapp à sua obra Afropolitan Literature as World Literature, 2020), o supra-mencionado conceito tem vindo...

The purpose of this paper is to show that the power dynamics between the Global North and the Global South that can be observed in the artistic world can also be seen in the academic world in general, and in Latin American literary studies in particular. Multiple paradoxes are analysed: A first aspect is the importance of the human capital flight f...

This literary study investigates the methods of teaching English employed in Islamic boarding schools, known as pesantren , in Indonesia. It examines traditional and modern approaches to English language instruction, drawing on data from previous studies in the field. This study used descriptive qualitative method with literature review approach. D...

Large language models (LLMs) have shown potential as tools for scientific discovery. This has engendered growing interest in their use in humanistic disciplines, such as historical linguistics and literary studies. These fields often construct arguments on the basis of delineations like genre, or more inflexibly, time period. Although efforts have...

This book explores the visceral and transformative power of violence in four of Sarah Kane’s most influential plays, offering a fresh phenomenological lens through which to understand her theatrical innovations. Drawing on the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, it examines how Kane’s works immerse audiences in the raw, embodied experiences of tra...

His three centers of interest mentioned in the preface of the book : a prevailing philosophical, a literary-theoretical (of the modern novel) and a socio-historical of the reality of the Dual Monarchy from 1867 to 1918, are combining here with a "cultural history constructed on the history of ideas" (p.20) of Austria-Hungary which, thanks to its ph...