This article explores the relationship between literature, childhoods, and youth in the educational sphere during the Popular Unity administration (UP... [more]
This essay reflects on the paradox of how the twenty-first-century opening up of comparative literature to non-Western literatures under the aegis of ... [more]
Using archive materials, this article investigates the decades-long translation process behind the year 2000 Carcanet collection 'Cyprian Norwid: Poems, Letters, Drawings'. In doing so, it explores the role that translation played in the initial blossom
In this article, I defend moral aesthetic cognitivism, the view that literature is a valuable source of insights related to morally relevant aspects of our world and that it can significantly contribute to our moral education. I am in particular concerned
The article highlights the exceptionally rich and important Polish tradition of memoir writing competitions and related publications; in the twentieth century exceeding 1500 such events! From the very beginning, the competitions sparked lively discussions
The 1990s and the first decade of the 2000s were a period that witnessed dramatic changes in the literary scene in South Korea. Literary productions' ' engagement with digital media was one of the major changes in this period, when the divide, collision
This essay underscores the importance of seeking refuge in literary aesthetics by arguing that Goethe's concept of world literature was formulated in compensation for the shock of military defeat, political collapse, and foreign occupation. The refugee b
This paper defends the idea that literary works can be vehicles of what has been called experiential knowledge; that is, literary works can offer knowledge of what it is like to have a particular kind of experience. After reviewing some of the critiques t
This introductory essay traces a genealogy of the notion of the minor in critical theories of the past four decades to then articulate the notion's aesthetic dimension. Foregrounding that dimension, we argue, offers a powerful analytical tool for fosteri
Selahattin Demirtas's fiction has led to some fierce discussions in the literary world in Turkey. The polemics were a reminder that prison literature, broadly defined, always was a hotly debated genre in the literary sphere of the late Ottoman Empire and
In the first half of the twentieth century there is a marked uptick in Western interest in Chinese literature. This manifests especially in poetry, with many translations, adaptations, and imitations. Well-known examples include Ezra Pound, Victor Segalen
While several collections have been published recently from the perspective of common law focused specifically on jurisprudence and from the perspective of both literary theory and the philosophy of language, a more integrative approach that sharpens the
This article explores the relationship between literature, childhoods, and youth in the educational sphere during the Popular Unity administration (UP) in Chile (1970-1973). The Chilean revolutionary process had curricular and pedagogical repercussions, e
This essay reflects on the paradox of how the twenty-first-century opening up of comparative literature to non-Western literatures under the aegis of world literature has coincided with the age of global Anglophone and the virtual minoritization of all no
Internet literature emerged in China in the 1990s and became commercialized in the early 2000s, with readers paying an access fee, which is split between literary platforms and their contracted writers, to access popular novels. While the most popular gen
The article studies the one-sided, simplified description of migration and parents migrating from Poland after 2004 in Polish children's and young adult literature. The author analyzes narrative strategies common for several key novels. She connects the