I think the thing that must seem most curious about this adventure to slay a dragon and reclaim a homeland and its treasure, is how the hell could adding a burglar be adding the decisive factor? What’s the trick? For there must be one, since the dragon has only gotten larger and more deadly as the years have gone by. Peter Jackson changes…[Read more]

Purportedly in response to a request by his unnamed beloved one, the late 18th-century Ottoman poet Ḥasan-i Yāver wrote Poetry’s Artistry, a 441-verse mathnawī that offers some hands-on advice for trying one’s hand at poetry. As tashbīh, jinās, kināya, taḍādd, taḍmīn, ilmām, iltifāt, tardīd, ishtibāh, tawriya, īhām, takhmīs, tarkīb-band,…[Read more]

On the project pirate.care

Scholars who have studied the contested meaning of “creole” in Louisiana have
typically maintained that the “Creole myth,” that is the strategic redefinition of
the term “creole” to refer to the white descendants of Louisiana’s original French
and Spanish settlers, emerged during or shortly after the Civil War. Drawing on
a newspaper art…[Read more]

Scholars who have studied the contested meaning of “creole” in Louisiana have
typically maintained that the “Creole myth,” that is the strategic redefinition of
the term “creole” to refer to the white descendants of Louisiana’s original French
and Spanish settlers, emerged during or shortly after the Civil War. Drawing on
a newspaper art…[Read more]

Published in New Orleans in 1845 by a group of free men of color, Les Cenelles: Choix de poésies indigènes is now commonly recognized as the first collection of African American poetry. As a testament to and expression of the intellectual prowess of New Orleans’s francophone free Black community, Les Cenelles deserves to be read as a formally int…[Read more]

Published in New Orleans in 1845 by a group of free men of color, Les Cenelles: Choix de poésies indigènes is now commonly recognized as the first collection of African American poetry. As a testament to and expression of the intellectual prowess of New Orleans’s francophone free Black community, Les Cenelles deserves to be read as a formally int…[Read more]

The tunefulness of Proust and Senancour. From the silence of mountains to the silence of music

For Proust, great books are the “children of silence” (CSB, p. 309), and his novel endeavors to express what could not, in principle, be formulated: nature, sensations, in brief the physical and psychic existence as a whole. In his vision, lan…[Read more]

The tunefulness of Proust and Senancour. From the silence of mountains to the silence of music

For Proust, great books are the “children of silence” (CSB, p. 309), and his novel endeavors to express what could not, in principle, be formulated: nature, sensations, in brief the physical and psychic existence as a whole. In his vision, lan…[Read more]

This essay traces the development of the right-hand inscription (zuoyouming 座右銘) from its birth in the second century CE through its culmination as a complex literary subgenre in the tenth. Over the course of these eight centuries, right-hand inscriptions were used by some of the most prominent poets of their respective eras, including Cui Yuan…[Read more]

This essay suggests that with the increasing prominence of “historical poetics” as a set of social collectives, methodologies, and debates (especially about literary analysis), now seems to be an ideal time to assess its history and consider its future. The first part of the essay offers a genealogy of historical poetics, accounting for some of…[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]

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]

2015 edition of the Language and Literary Studies of Warsaw. List of Contents: 1. Kazuo Ishiguro’s “A Family Supper” – the Hermeneutics of Familiarityand Strangeness – Małgorzata Hołda, 2. Magna Poeta, Magnum Opus: Paul Muldoon’s “Cuthbert and the Otters”and Unending Heaney – Wit Pietrzak. 3. Tłumaczenie audiowizualne w oparciu o klasyczne tłumac…[Read more]

2015 issue of Language and Literary Studies of Warsaw. List of Contents: 1. Edward Morgan Forster i Polska: Przypis do biografii i próba studium recepcji – Krzysztof Fordoński, 2. Enjoy!: Transgression (aga)in(st) Consumer Culture – Paweł Wojtas, 3. Evasion and/or expiation? – Telling/reading stories in A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the…[Read more]

2014 edition of the journal Contents Studia Literaturoznawcze. List of contents: 1. Problemy refeksji nad spektaklem w klasycystycznej teorii teatru we Francji – Michał Bajer, 2. John Dryden’s Conversion and Its Political Basis in The Hind and the Panther – Paweł Kaptur, 3. Źródła romantycznej fascynacji Ukrainą i zagadnienie szkoły ukraińsk…[Read more]

The third issue of Language and Literary Studies of Warsaw published in 2013. List of contents: 1. Spatial and temporal deixis in Cantar de Mio Cid – Łukasz Berger, 2. Fag-End of Romanticism: The Nationalist Impulse in English Surrealism – Matthew Chambers, 3. Feelings and Form in King Alfred’s Psalter – Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik, 4. “Now I have…[Read more]

The second issue of The Linguistic Academy Journal of Interdisciplinary Language Studies