Literary Criticism
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Статья посвящена практике отбора и обработки произведений литературы, публиковавшихся в школьных хрестоматиях и книгах для чтения в XIX в. Нередко художественные тексты настолько трансформируются составителями хрестоматий, что перестают... more
A comparison of Shakespeare's The Tempest with Marina Warner's rewriting, Indigo to explore the concept of proto-colonialism. The re-writings of characters as colonisers-colonised will be explored with regards to postcolonial theories to... more
This short essay provides contextual background on Robert Burns's lyric, "Ae Fond Kiss," as well as critical analysis of the song.
Postmodern dünya içinde bulunduğu kaotik yapının doğası gereği birçok unsurun birleşiminden oluşur. Bu çoklu yapı içerisinde görülen parçalılığın yol açtığı uyumsuzluk durumu insan yaşantısına doğrudan etki eder. Teknolojiden mimariye,... more
This work aims to analyze the masculine domination devices reflected in Buenos Aires literature between 1928 and 1942 as a way to visualize the reality of women in the city of Buenos Aires. For this purpose, we will work with the... more
Esztétikai gondolkodás a felvilágosodás korában (1650-1800): Az ízlésesztétika paradigmája, Budapest: Gondolat, 2013. 210-258. A 18. század elején történik meg az áttörés a francia kultúrában is. Ekkor lép fel néhány olyan gondolkodó,... more
Richard Wright's Native Son has often been read as a socially-oriented text, seemingly neglecting its existence as a literary construct. Such readings gear towards identifying the text with such societal ills as racism and... more
This inaugural lecture outlines the contours of a history of critical thinking. Drawing on case studies from the 19th, 20th, and 21st-century humanities, it draws attention to demands that critical thinking makes on the self – that is, to... more
As colonial powers imported written material commodities to their colonies, they also imported colonial ideals and values. One of these textual imports was the white savior trope, where forms of communication, including literature, from... more
This presentation is a brief introduction to Edwin Thumboo's postcolonialist poetry and the sociohistorical background of Singapore which gives provides it with context. A short deconstructive analysis is undertaken of Thumboo's poem,... more
A partir del apelativo «ideología neoromántica», atribuido por el crítico Roberto González Echevarría al conjunto de rasgos con los que Alejo Carpentier reconfiguró la personalidad enunciativa de Cristóbal Colón en su última novela «El... more
In this paper the aim is to detect the places which refute allegations of some theorists (like Biljana Oklopčić, Dubravka Oraić Tolić) about Miroslav Krleža as a misogynistic author, based on his forming of female characters, in this... more
The book ‘Ignoble Displacement: Dispossessed Capital in Neo-Dickensian London,’ addresses the relationship between the motifs of capital and empire in Dickens's novels and the confluence of global economy and liberal politics in the... more
O pós-humanismo da chamada “virada animal”, que atualmente estimula discussões acerca da animalidade em diversas áreas das Humanidades, oferece questões cruciais para a teoria da literatura. A atenção à figura do animal no discurso... more
“The Animal in Translation.” Postmodern Culture Volume 24, Number 2, January 2014 at
https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/v024/24.2.lezra.html
https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/v024/24.2.lezra.html
Although studies on Stephen King (1947-) traditionally belong to the field of popular culture, some of his work, such as The Dark Half and «Secret Window, Secret Garden,» give an insightful perspective on contemporary fiction. Drawing... more
In this paper, I analyse how human nature is explored in Atwood's Oryx and Crake and Wells' All System Red.
«Atheism and writing in Maurice Blanchot». In: Miriam Díez Bosch, Jordi Sánchez Torrents (eds), Atheism and literature in Europe. Blanquerna Observatory on Media, Religion and Culture – School of Communication and International Relations... more
Link: Athenaeum Boekhandel | De oude Schröder en zijn nieuwe boek, een inleiding Allard Schröder is romancier, dichter, essayist, vertaler, recensent, schrijver van hoorspelen, verhalen, novellen, en scenario's. Zijn schrijversleven is te... more
This article attempts to reinstate the inherent rigor of “image” as a literary term by addressing the theoretical issues related to the image that W. J. T. Mitchell discusses in his encyclopedia entry and his articles on the concept. The... more
Curated colloquy with an initial cluster of contributions by Jason Crawford, Walter Melion and Bart M. Ramakers, Michael Silk, and Nicolette Zeeman. // "What has allegory to do with personification, and personification with allegory? Are... more
This article discusses the poetics of the screen story by O. Honchar «Partisan Spark» as a system of expressive means that embody the idea of the story and unify its form and contents. The particular attention is paid to the analysis of... more
The concept of “rewilding” has made its way into popular culture in recent years, describing a network of supporting the health of the environment and humanity itself through the cultivation of un-cultivated spaces within existing... more
Réplica à resenha de "Machado de Assis: por uma poética da emulação", escrita por Lidiane Soares Rodrigues. Propõe-se a noção de "resenha passaporte" para caracterizar a estratégia empregada pela resenhista: trata-se de comentar... more
In "Against Literary Darwinism," Jonathan Kramnick attacks a straw man version of literary Darwinism. His conceptual framework implies that biology is restricted to a few modular cognitive processes, like those for the autonomic nervous... more
The present article investigates the poetics and politics of the new canon feminist critical dystopia and addresses its potential for creating a space for activism and rebellion in The Water Cure and Before She Sleeps. Accordingly, the... more
Dieser Aufsatz befasst sich mit der Altersdarstellung in zwei beispielhaften Generationenromanen der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur, Clemens Setz’ Die Frequenzen (2009) und Tilman Rammstedts Der Kaiser von China (2008). Drei... more
This is an introduction to the forthcoming special issue, "Artificial Intelligence and its Discontents."
This article explores theoretical alternatives to contemporary western hegemonic feminist discourses, advancing methodologies that mark an epistemological break with western feminist scholarship; namely Orientalist criticism, third world... more
This essay reexamines the Panther Captivity narrative with regard to its complex textual past and the untapped potential of the archive. A few novel discoveries are presented: one full text of an edition previously recorded but unseen,... more
This paper analyzes an unfinished article by Ivan Goncharov known under the title Materials Prepared for a Critical Article about Ostrovskii. I argue that the content of the article has practically nothing to do with the works of... more
The following paper is based on the concept of literature and mediality of memory (Astrid Erll) which deals with the function of literary texts in creating and maintaining collective memory. Using these methodological incentives, it... more