Category: Humanities – Literature/Literary Studies*
From Reader to Participant: The Evolving Embodiment of Erotica in Story of O and Beyond
Erotic fiction has the power to mark its reader permanently, yet the journey of how such texts are received, adapted, …
Guilt Without Grace: The Translation of Hamartia as Tsumi and the Literary Imagination of Sin in Meiji and Modern Japan
This study examines how the 1880 Meiji New Testament translated the Greek terms hamartia (sin) and charis (grace) within the …
Lost in Algorithmic Translation: Evaluating AI Tools in Translating Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
This study critically evaluates the efficacy of AI translation tools—Google Translate, DeepL, and ChatGPT-4—in rendering Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart …
In Pursuit of Affirmative Biopolitics: The Paradigm of Immunization in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam
In the MaddAddam trilogy, Atwood deftly depicts catastrophic scenarios resulting from the unconstrained advancement of biotechnology. Undoubtedly, the adoption of …
Relational Humanity: Mind-Modelling and Distributed Agency in Klara and the Sun
Adopting the approach of cognitive narratology, this study examines Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Klara and the Sun (2021) as a text …
Seeking Alternatives Through Languages in Dollie Radford’s Diary and Poetry
This short article reexamines the fin-de-siècle poet Dollie Radford (1858–1920) by foregrounding her engagement with literary resources as intellectual and …
Disposable Futures: Posthuman Bodies, Biopolitical Value, and the Ethics of Recognition in Contemporary British Fiction
This paper examines how contemporary British fiction deploys posthuman and transhuman figures to interrogate the political mechanisms through which human …
Chanting Revolution: Environmental Performance in Syrian Protests Chants and Youssef-Agha’s The Chronicles of the Syrian Revolution
This article analyses the performative dynamics of language in the chants of the Syrian demonstrations (2011–2024) in relation to Tarif …
“Everything Was Quiet and Lovely in the Sunlight”: Everyday Terrors in Shirley Jackson’s Short Fiction
Is the horror genre characterized by the existence of the monster, the "horrific creature", an "extraordinary character in our ordinary …
Fantasy’s Role in Approaching War: A Comparison of Lewis’ “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” and Barrie’s “Peter Pan”
This study examines the versatility of fantasy. Fantasy can be stated to be serving as an escape from the ugliness …
Trading Lives: A Dystopian Tale of Bartered Bodies in Manjula Padmanabhan’s Play ‘Harvest’
The ethical dilemma surrounding organ donation lies at the core of modern medical ethics, as the juxtaposition between the noble …
From Victim to Voice: A Study of Rania Al-Baz’s “Disfigured”
This paper examines Rania Al-Baz’s memoir, Disfigured: A Saudi Woman’s Story of Triumph Over Violence (2007). Al-Baz, a pioneering Saudi …
A Gothic Bridge Between the Past and the Future
This paper is a postcolonial reading of Nick Joaquin’s The Mass of St. Sylvestre. It explores the elements and functions …
The King and His Queen: Henry VIII’s Verse and Katherine of Aragon as Center of the Chivalric Court
This essay examines the ways in which Henry used poetics and performances to establish the iconography of his court and …
The Web of Signification in Journey to the West
Journey to the West, one of the ancient Chinese classics, is an imaginative narration of the historical event of the …
Diminished Power: The Fall of Wonder Woman
One of the most recognized characters that has become a part of the pantheon of pop-culture is Wonder Woman. Ever …
Shakespearean Intertextuality in “The Rivals”
This paper explores Shakespearean intertextuality in The Rivals (1775), a comedy by the British playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. In this …
Thought and Image in Goncalo M. Tavares: A Contemporary Writing
The paper takes part of a project on Representation and Image, within the line of current research Literature, Theory and …
The Power of Fiction: The Nameless Book and the Birth of Literary Criticism in Japan
Mumyōzōshi (The Nameless Book, ca. 1200) is frequently cited as the first work of prose criticism in the Japanese literary …
The Power of Popular Culture in Salman Rushdie’s “The Ground Beneath Her Feet”
This paper discusses elements of popular culture found in Salman Rushdie’s "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" and bases its arguments …
The Literary Figuration and the Constellation of Power in the Play “The Life of Edward II of England”
Believing in the necessary and close connection between aesthetics and politics runs like a golden thread through the whole work …
Optimistic Dogmatism and Pessimistic Empiricism
Edward Bellamy, a 19th-century American utopian socialist, held that a utopian vision can be achieved through both faith and science, …
A Journey to the Contemporary Past: Edward Bond’s the Fool, Artist Responsibility in Light of Power of Capitalist Marketing and Neoliberalism
The concern of this study is how the text is interpreted within a theoretical and critical framework such as Cultural …
European Narratives of the Insular Space : Poetics of the Social System after 1945
In European postmodern literature, the topos of the island becomes even more central than previously because of its way of …
The Wonder of the Power of Language in Alice in Wonderland
Power is a game played by everyone. Learning to confront the power game is important if we do not want …
Malcolm Lowry the Russian Connection
In Under the Volcano (1947) Malcolm Lowry (1909-57) presents us with a Faustian image of a British ex-Consul tormented by …
Interpreting Poems, Interpreting Worlds – on Poetry Translation
Li Bai’s poems are appreciated and enjoyed by people all over the world, which shows the universal aspect of language …
George Lathrop’s Short Story “Left Out” and Its Unknown Translations
The journalism boom in the nineteenth century facilitated not only development of a new literary genre, the short story, but …