Le romantisme constitue un moment où, dans le cas de la littérature polonaise, la nation est créée en tant qu’imagined community, pour reprendre la formule classique de Benedict Anderson. L’exploration du passé, conformément aux règles de l’historicisme romantique inspiré principalement des penseurs allemands tels que Friedrich Schiller et F…[Read more]

Sedentary pathways to organise teaching and learning in fixed-abode classrooms remain a dominant formal schooling practice. This is in contrast to nomadic pathways, which see teachers and/or learners engaged in a form of mobility whilst teaching/learning outside permanent sedentary settings. In northern Nigeria, not all children participating in…[Read more]

Sedentary pathways to organise teaching and learning in fixed-abode classrooms remain a dominant formal schooling practice. This is in contrast to nomadic pathways, which see teachers and/or learners engaged in a form of mobility whilst teaching/learning outside permanent sedentary settings. In northern Nigeria, not all children participating in…[Read more]

For centuries, continental Europeans have come to Wales for numerous reasons. During the Romantic period some came seeking a rural idyll, whilst others in the Victorian era travelled as industrial spies, and during times of war many refugees escaped to Wales to find shelter from persecution. Not only have continental Europeans left their traces…[Read more]

This essay examines how translation theory can globalize contemporary literary comparison. Whereas Persian studies has historically been isolated from the latest developments within literary theory, world literature has similarly been isolated from the latest developments within the study of non-European literatures. I propose the methodology of…[Read more]

Drawing on archival research, this article introduces several Russian poems by the Arabic mahjar poet and writer Mikhail Naimy (Mīkhāʿīl Nu’aymah) (1889-1988) for the first time to scholarship. By examining the influence of Russian literature on Naimy’s literary output, we shed light on the role of multilingualism in generating literary identit…[Read more]

This article compares three key texts in Daghestani Islamicate literature by Persian Azeri writer Bākīkhānūf (d. 1847), Lezgi polymath al-Alqadārī (d. 1910), and Qumyq (Turkic) biographer al-Durgilī (d. 1935), with a view to understanding how their authors conceptualized their role as chroniclers of times past. I draw in particular on Italia…[Read more]

Spanish Abstract: En una cultura mediática en la que la literatura es espectáculo, los best-sellers son espectáculo de primera, y sus autores se vuelven parte del espectáculo. En este contexto era de esperar que surjan usos experimentales de la figura del autor, o curiosidades si se quiere, como el caso de Houellebecq, que, ficcionalizado en par…[Read more]

The study focuses on the position of female deputies of non-Russian descent in parliamentary debates of the Perestroika period in the Soviet Union. The key issues the author examines concern the grievances which these female deputies were pointing out, and the potential solutions they were proposing to mitigate or eliminate them. The most…[Read more]

In this article, we propose a model that combines digital storytelling with narrative practice to create a facilitated peer-to-peer experiential learning space for collective empowerment. This model was inspired by an educational intervention that utilized participatory digital comic strip making to raise students’ awareness of bullying and its c…[Read more]

In this article, we propose a model that combines digital storytelling with narrative practice to create a facilitated peer-to-peer experiential learning space for collective empowerment. This model was inspired by an educational intervention that utilized participatory digital comic strip making to raise students’ awareness of bullying and its c…[Read more]

Procrastination is a plague that affects an individual’s working attitude and behavior. In relation, the organization will also suffer and its constituents along the way. This study assessed the demographic profile and the degree of procrastination among selected employees from a higher education institution in Central Luzon, Philippines. The s…[Read more]

This presentation brings together and builds on previous studies of queer representation using the LGBTQ Video Game Archive and the Represent Me games database (Cole et al. 2017) in order to investigate unexplored trends and invisible queer intersections in video games. Specifically, we draw on Queer Intersections in Video Games (Mejeur 2018), a…[Read more]

The 9th issue of the LLSW Literary and Cultural Studies. List of Contents: 1. Estranged Flowers: Plant Symbolism in Antonia Pozzi’s and Krystyna Krahelska’s poems – Alessandro Amenta, 2. Motywy antyczne w Czarodziejskiej górze Thomasa Manna – Jakub Handszu, 3. Terminologia teatralna u Petroniusza – Michał Heintze, 4. Przekład literacki z perspe…[Read more]

8/2018 issue of Language and Literary Studies of Warsaw including:
“Scratching Claw Marks on the Lid”: The (Dis)abled Female Character in Marina Carr’s Portia Coughlan – Justyna Dąbrowska
Artistic Forms of Consciousness Representation in the Dramatic Works by Oleksandr Oles Zemlya Obitovana and Nich na Polonyni – Viktoriya Ataman…[Read more]

The 7th issue of our journal. List of contents: 1. XVI-wieczny poeta-metafizyk jako twórca świata przedstawionego. Nowe pola badawcze Dorota Gładkowska 2. “The Vane Sisters” by V. Nabokov and the Hermeneutics of Memory and Death Małgorzata Hołda 3. Lose Yourself, Find Empathy – Narrative Perspective and Mirror Neurons in J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iro…[Read more]