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Alavi, Samad. "Literary Subterfuge and Contemporary Persian Fiction." American Journal of Islam and Society 32, no. 4 (2015): 109–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v32i4.1008.
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For at least the past several decades, Persian literary scholarship has drawnits conceptual framework largely from the social sciences. Despite severalnoteworthy exceptions, a tendency to read Persian literature for its sociopoliticalcontent still guides the way scholars write about and teach the fieldtoday. Indeed, a brief survey of course syllabi with “Persian literature” in theirtitles would no doubt reveal that instructors (the present writer included) byand large introduce writers and their works based on non-literary socio-historicaldevelopments, either arranging texts chronologically by their years ofproduction or presenting them (still usually chronologically) as reflections ofthe historical events, social movements, and ideological currents that shapedthe societies from which those texts arose.Mehdi Khorrami’s Literary Subterfuge and Contemporary Persian Fiction:Who Writes Iran? challenges this trend, arguing that we do a great disserviceto both individual texts and literary studies as a discipline when weconsider non-literary factors as the primary criteria by which to analyze andschematize literary works. Instead, while acknowledging the importance ofsocial, historical, and ideological contexts, in other words the world outsidethe text, Khorrami’s study of contemporary Persian fiction contends that wemust scrutinize the world inside the texts – their aesthetic, linguistic, and formaldevices and concepts – to develop a comprehensive view of literature’shistorical evolution.The work under review argues that modernist Persian fiction evolves froma counter-discursive to a non-discursive position vis-à-vis official discoursesin Iran, primarily under the Islamic Republic. The author’s conception of discursivityrelates directly to his understanding of the term modernist. The single ...
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Young, Howard T., and Estelle Irizarry. "Writer-Painters of Contemporary Spain." Hispania 68, no. 2 (1985): 310. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/342182.
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Abdualim Qizi, Abdualimova Shalola. "Writer In Memory Of His Contemporaries And In The Eternal Honor." American Journal of Social Science and Education Innovations 03, no. 01 (2021): 344–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.37547/tajssei/volume03issue01-67.
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This article covers the difficult life and career of the great writer, the founder of Uzbek novels Abdullah Qadiri, his experiences, the warm words of contemporary poets and writers about the writer, the author's multifaceted work and other information.
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Zueva, Galina. "Media Image of a Contemporary Writer via Interpretation of Their Texts (by the Example of Inwerviews with Dina Rubina's)." Theoretical and Practical Issues of Journalism 9, no. 1 (2020): 192–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.17150/2308-6203.2020.9(1).192-203.
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This paper studies the media image of a modern Russian writer Dina Rubina basing on her portrait (face-to-face) interviews and subject-related portrait interviews in various contemporary Russian and pro-Russian media: newspapers, magazines, radio, TV, and the internet-media. Growing interest to modern writers in the media environment and to interaction between the writer and the reader via mass media determines the topicality of the research. The study object is a public figure from the literary community. In this relation, the author finds it necessary to distinguish between the notions "media image", "imagery", and "image". The interviews with Dina Rubina are analyzed in the context of the form and contents of her works, which helps to identify and fix some personal intentions of the writer. The author studies the writer's media image basing on the theory of archetypes, as well as their influence on Dina Rubina's and her interviewers' professional behavior. The specific character of the questions asked to the writer prove the importance of the archetype of the creator and its dominance among the contributory archetypes, namely, those of the Harlequin and the mother. Special attention is paid to the gender aspect of a modern writer's media image, which is quite significant for Dina Rubina and her readers.
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Ben-Ami, Naama. "Rituals of Memory in Contemporary Arab Women’s Writing." American Journal of Islam and Society 25, no. 4 (2008): 125–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v25i4.1438.
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Gender, an issue that has been in the headlines for decades now, has naturallyalso attracted the scholarly attention of both men and women. In thebook under review, Brinda Mehta, professor of French and FrancophoneStudies at Mills College, inquires into the subject of gender from the perspectiveof a select group of leading contemporary women writers in theArab world whose compositions express the complexities of life for Arabwomen in the Middle East (Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq), NorthAfrica (Egypt,Algeria, andMorocco), and the United States (LosAngeles). The authors areallArabs on both sides, except forDianaAbu-Jaber, daughter of a JordanianbornArab Muslim father and an American Christian mother. The novelschosen for analysis have widely varying plots, but all reflect the place ofwomen inArab society and how they cope with difficult circumstances.The book is divided into six chapters, each devoted to one ormore compositions(novels) by a writer or two, whose stimulation to write was derivedat least in part from their own personal experiences ...
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Shneer, David. "The Writer Uprooted: Contemporary Jewish Exile Literature." East European Jewish Affairs 39, no. 2 (2009): 289–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13501670903016365.
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Timofeev, A. N. "Etoev, A. and Krusanov, P., eds. (2018). How we write. Writers on literature, time, and themselves. Moscow: Azbuka-Attikus. (In Russ.)." Voprosy literatury, no. 6 (December 28, 2020): 274–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2020-6-274-279.
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A review of the collection How We Write. Writers on Literature, Time, and Themselves [Kak my pishem. Pisateli o literature, vremeni i o sebe] published by Azbuka-Attikus in 2018. The reviewer analyzes the difference in approach to compiling the material for the reviewed collection and its ‘original’ of the same name initiated by Eugene Zamyatin and published in 1930. The author provides a general description of essays in the collection, produced by contemporary writers. He singles out authors whose self-reflection transcends into an aesthetic dimension. Several internal plots of the collection are identified: ‘I and literature,’ ‘I and time,’ and the writer and a multicultural situation. Noted is the disparity on the artistic level among the essays by different contributors. The reviewer concludes that, rather than representing a consistent statement defined by an internal logic and purpose, the collection attempts to cover the entirety of the contemporary literary process and showcase its diversity.
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Cioni, Paola. "“Cursed Days” by I. A. Bunin in Their Historical Context: Between Realism and Hyperrealism." Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka 80, no. 5 (2021): 46. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s241377150017127-2.
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The article proposes to re-read “Cursed Days” by I. Bunin as an important junction between nineteenth-century realism and contemporary hyperrealism. The author focuses attention primarily on how the writer uses documents not only to capture a photographic image of reality, by inserting those documents into the narrative, but also to make his point of view abundantly clear. After all, it is the writer himself who declares his intention to wield public opinion by offering the truth proven by hard facts. Thereby Bunin paves ground for contemporary hyper-realistic literature. Theoretically, the article draws on the critical works by Raffaele Donnarumma, particularly his book “Ipermodernità. Dove va la narrativa contemporanea” (2014), where the concept of hyperrealism, previously applied to painting and sculpture, is used for the analysis of contemporary literature. Buninʼs political commitment, which back then was representative of opponents of the revolution, is also a typical feature of contemporary hypermodern writers. From this perspective, the work of Ivan Bunin is reconsidered in all its modernity, as a form of realism that precedes contemporary hypermodern fiction by more than a century.
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Yilancioglu, S. Seza. "Simonian Writing According to Mireille Calle-Gruber." Human and Social Studies 3, no. 3 (2014): 59–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/hssr-2013-0038.
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Abstract Mireille Calle-Gruber is not only a university professor and a writer, but also a leading scholar and critic of French literature and contemporary Francophone literature. Her works on Michel Butor, Claude Simon, Assia Djebar, Derrida and other contemporary writers (as well as those dealing with the history of the twentieth century literature) fill gaps in the contemporary literary history of the twentieth century. Her books not only scrutinize and analyze the writing of Claude Simon; they also shed new light on the analysis of the novel and autobiography in contemporary literature, through the memory of experience and perception
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Yoon, Joon. "The Writer as Outsider: Portraits of Contemporary Writers in Robert Lowell’s Life Studies." Modern Studies in English Language & Literature 61, no. 4 (2017): 207–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.17754/mesk.61.4.207.
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Nguyen Thi Mai, Chanh. "The journey to “go global” of the contemporary Chinese woman writer Can Xue." Journal of Science Social Science 66, no. 3 (2021): 3–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.18173/2354-1067.2021-0041.
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Can Xue is a contemporary Chinese writer of international stature, while in Vietnam, it is assumed that no more than three translations of her works are noticed. This woman writer possesses the most literary works appearing in foreign high school and university textbooks compared with other contemporary Chinese writers. To date, no less than thirty volumes of hers have been translated into more than ten languages and published in a number of countries including the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Japan, etc. A myriad of professional researchers, critics and scholars, Sinologists in the West and Japan have written papers on the author's creations. This writing places a priority on introducing the situation of translation and publication of Can Xue's works in two major countries, Japan and the United States, over the past two decades.
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Fisk, Catherine, and Michael Szalay. "Story Work: Non-Proprietary Autonomy and Contemporary Television Writing." Television & New Media 18, no. 7 (2016): 605–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1527476416652693.
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Based on interviews with three dozen working writers in American television, this paper argues that TV writers assert their status as labor to guarantee their shared craft identity with novelists, dramatists, and authors of other conventional literary material. The tension between writers’ desire for literary prestige on one hand, and their recognition that they create at the behest of company executives, on the other, emerges, alternately, in the imagined difference between writers and producers and, most basically, between autonomous creators and corporate hacks. Our novel observation is that writers’ identification with labor, including their commitment to their union, the Writers Guild of America, plays a central role in resolving these tensions. Union membership solves a problem at the heart of contemporary TV writing insofar as it transforms a necessity into a virtue; opposing management as labor, the writer registers her opposition to creative input that might otherwise compromise her sense of artistic integrity. That opposition allows writers to imagine themselves at odds with the studios and networks that employ them, and at the same time to commit to artistic over and against corporate values.
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Elmofti, Mohammed. "The renewable roles of the teacher in twenty-first century." International Journal of research in Educational Sciences 4, no. 2 (2021): 51–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.29009/ijres.4.2.1.
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This paper expresses the writer's vision and point of view of some contemporary developments and the challenges that emerge from them, and in light of which he proposes some of the most important roles of the teacher that the writer thinks should be available in his work. Accordingly, this paper is not a traditional research paper in the conventional sense, but rather a vision of the writer who welcomes other opposing views.
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S, Selvakumaran. "Idealogy – in the Contemporary Sri Lankan Tamil Novels." International Research Journal of Tamil 3, no. 1 (2020): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt2111.
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Contemporary Tamil novels depict human life in different dimensions with aesthetic fineness, depending on some theories, in the background of countries such as Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, etc., and also the places of refuge and diaspora. Here, we mark Sri Lankan Tamil novels, that the writer should belong to Sri Lanka. He may live in some other diasporic country. Even when they write from any of the diasporic countries like France, Canada, Denmark, Australia, etc., one could observe the smell of flesh and blood of their motherland. We can point out Shobha Shakthi’s – Gorilla, m, box; Tamil Nadhi’s- Parthenium; Tamil Kavi’s –Uuzhi kaalam; Jeevakumar’s –kudhitrai vaahanam.
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Afejuku, Tony E., and E. B. Adeleke. "Myths, Legends, and Contemporary Nigerian Theatre." Matatu 49, no. 1 (2017): 54–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-04901004.
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Femi Osofisan belongs to the new breed of writers, inadequately referred to as the ‘second generation of writers’. An accomplished writer whose works include plays, poems, essays, and novels, Osofisan is widely regarded as the most significant playwright in Africa after Soyinka. As a committed playwright, Osofisan focuses on the reappraisal of his immediate society and the challenges of living in this society. He calls attention to all that is undesirable in the politics, economy, and religion of contemporary Nigeria and asks for a change of attitude which, hopefully, will bring sanity to the country. One of the means by which Osofisan achieves his artistic objective is the use of lore from Yorùbá mythology. Specifically, we shall show in this essay that Osofisan makes use of the myths of Ṣango and Èṣù and the legends of Môrèmi and Solarin as a means of thematic exploitation. By so doing, he creates a unique contemporary Nigerian theatre which other playwrights emulate and develop. We shall use Many Colours Make the Thunder King, Esu and the Vagabond Minstrels, Morountodun, and Who’s Afraid of Solarin? as our illustrative texts.
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Raducanu, Adriana. "Interrogating Urban Spaces: Kali and the Intellectual in two Contemporary Novels." Gender Studies 14, no. 1 (2015): 95–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/genst-2016-0007.
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Abstract This article focuses on the complexity of the encounter between two Western male writers and the East as represented by the metropolis of Calcutta and Kali, its patron goddess. The novels under discussion are Dan Simmons’ Song of Kali and Paul Theroux’s A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta. The theoretical framework of the comparative analysis argues for the conceptual blurring of boundaries between ‘flâneur’ and ‘badaud’, elusive hypostases of the male writer protagonists in the Eastern urban context.
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Huber, Sandra. "Spirit, Writer." Feminist Media Histories 6, no. 3 (2020): 137–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2020.6.3.137.
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Automatic writing, or spirit writing, introduces a hidden feminist media history that puts into question the role of the author, divisions between automaticity and creativity, and the porosity of the (writing) body. In the nineteenth century, a predominantly female labor force began channeling spirits and producing scripts that were either entirely authorless or profoundly collaborative, a practice not so much about inscribing as de-inscribing. This article focuses on medium Geraldine Cummins, who brought her ghosts and guides into a court of law, revealing how the most ordinary tools of writing can be encountered as uncanny and talismanic presences. Her techniques of radical listening invite explorations of live-ness, presence, able-ness, and receptivity—themes that the article extends to the work of contemporary feminist artists and the illegible scripts of AI. How does automatic writing complicate the role of bodies who write as well as bodies of writing?
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Locic, Simona. "Reinventing the fairy tale’s heroine in the novel 'Barbe bleue' of Amélie Nothomb." Thélème. Revista Complutense de Estudios Franceses 34, no. 2 (2019): 377–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/thel.63252.
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In the 20th and the 21st centuries, many writers have shown an interest in rewriting traditional fairy tales. In contemporary literature, fairy tales are thus reinvented, adapted to the historical reality, the vices, the weaknesses and the imperfections of contemporary human beings. This study analyses the reinvention of the fairy tale’s heroine in Barbe bleue, by French writer Amélie Nothomb, and published in 2012. This study will show how the rewriting of this millenary text questions the schematic and stereotyped relations between characters in traditional fairy tales.
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Shariq, Hafiz Muhammad, and Maryam Noreen. "The Research Methodology & Trends in Female Seerah Writer." Fahm-i-Islam 3, no. 1 (2020): 121–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.37605/fahm-i-islam.3.1.8.
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Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him, is a role model for all mankind. In every domain of life, one may find the best shining example to follow. For this reason, it has always been an extremely important practice of Muslim Scholars to write prophetic biography. Many Muslim scholars have contributed by means of books of Seerah (Biography) and provided guidance in connection with modern challenges and conditions. Most of the known writers are male, however there are many female writers in the contemporary world who have been engaged in contributing to Biographical Studies. The article is an effort to analyze the contemporary work on Seerah done by the women scholars. We aim to examine the features, research methodology and the trends in the work done on the Prophetic Biography
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Nakoneczny, Tomasz. "Rosja jako tekst w prozie Wiktora Pielewina." Studia Rossica Posnaniensia, no. 41 (June 20, 2018): 159–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/strp.2016.41.13.
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The article presents the work of Victor Pelevin, one of the most famous contemporary Russian writers, in the context of changes in literary communication. The writer uses postmodern techniques and strategies (intertextuality, decanonization, heterogeneity) and traditional cultural motifs and themes (Russian and foreign) to compensate literature for the loss of its metaphysical attributes and authority of high art.
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Nicolau, Felix. "Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Cultural Developments." Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies 1, no. 1 (2018): 184–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.35824/sjrs.v1i1.17355.
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Romulus Bucur is a renowned writer and literary critic. He is also faculty member at Transylvania University of Braşov, institution well-known for its courses of creative writing and translation studies. “Glosses” is a nimbly written theoretical book wherein many topics are analyzed. One of the most important is the work of Alexandru Muşina, editor, writer, professor, and mentor of the Group of Braşov (a fertile contingent of writers still holding sway in Romanian literature).
 The second part of the volume is dedicated to the Romanian translations from the classical and contemporary Chinese culture. Mention must be made about the semiotic approach to all literary works glossed about.
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Ayodeji, Adewuyi Aremu. "Writing Africa, Righting America: An Experience of Otherness in J. P. Clark’s America, Their America." Afrika Focus 34, no. 2 (2021): 308–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2031356x-34020006.
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Abstract In this article, I examine one of the finest first-generation Nigerian writers, John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo, who passed away on 13 October 2020, and who has been categorised as a Eurocentric writer. By critiquing his America, Their America, this work investigates the authenticity of this perception of J. P. Clark as a Eurocentric Nigerian writer. By analysing his autobiography vis-à-vis the notion of the Self and the Other, a theoretical concern in contemporary travel writing, the researcher establishes that every culture has its positive and negative aspects. It must not feel too proud to change as time and situation demand. It is clear that Clark vehemently rejects the US claim of the sophistication and superiority of their culture over African culture. The paper concludes that contemporary travel writing should be a rightful site for negotiating cultural compromises between the Self and the Other, since the gap may be difficult to close altogether.
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Karasik-Updike, Olga B. "Contemporary Jewish Prose in the USA." Literature of the Americas, no. 10 (2021): 100–134. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2541-7894-2021-10-100-134.
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The essay presents an overview of Jewish American prose of the second half of the 20th — first two decades of the 21st century within the context of multicultural literature of the USA. The definition of Jewish literature remains a matter of debate. The author of the essay based on the opinions of critics concludes on the criterion for assigning a writer to Jewish literature. It is the artistic embodiment of the personal Jewish experience and identity in the works of literature, the view “from inside,” the perspective of collective memory and the connection to history and culture. Jewish literature today is one of the most developed ethnic segments of multicultural American literature. Writers under study are recognized throughout the world, their works have been translated into many languages, including Russian, they are known to readers and have already become the subject of study by literary scholars. Today, Jewish American literature is represented by two generations of writers. “Senior” generation includes the authors born in the 1920s–30s who began their literary careers in the 60s when there was a generational change in national literature. “Young” generation is represented by the writers who began their literary careers in the 2000s. On the example of the works of the most famous authors of both generations, the author of the essay talks about the factors determining the specific features of Jewish American prose and its characteristic themes, problems, and motives: the search for identity and roots, the representation and rethinking of the Holocaust, ethnic stereotypes, the image of the Jewish family, and the traditions of Jewish humor. The study of the works of modern Jewish writers in the United States allows us to draw conclusions about the display of border consciousness, national and ethnic identity, and collective memory in fiction.
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AFEJUKU, TONY E., and E. B. ADELEKE. "Myths, Legends, and Contemporary Nigerian Theatre." Matatu 47, no. 1 (2016): 97–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-90000397.
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Femi Osofisan belongs to the new breed of writers, inadequately referred to as ‘second generation’. An accomplished writer whose works include plays, poems, essays and novels, Osofisan is widely regarded as the most significant playwright in Africa after Soyinka. As a committed playwright, Osofisan focuses on the reappraisal of his immediate society and the challenges of living in this society. He calls attention to all that is undesirable in the politics, economy, and religion of contemporary Nigeria and asks for a change of attitude which, hopefully, will bring sanity to the country. One of the means by which Osofisan achieves his artistic objective is the use of myths and legends from Yorùbá mythology. Specifically, we shall show in this essay that Osofisan makes use of the myths of OEango and Èṣú and the legends of Môrèmi and Solarin as a means of thematic exploitation. By so doing, he creates a unique contemporary Nigerian theatre which other playwrights emulate and develop. Many Colours Make the Thunder King, Esu and the Vagabond Minstrels, Morountodun, and Who Is Afraid of Solarin? are used as illustrative texts.
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Henderson, John. "Going to the dogs / Grattius <&> the Augustan subject." Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 47 (2001): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068673500000675.
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1. It's no use. There is no hope, not a dog's chance. Whatever I write in this essay, who will go root out Grattius' poem The World of Hunting to Hounds? No course-teacher will track him down, whether as Augustan writer or as didactic poet. Big books about Latin Literature have to be perfectly inclusive works of reference if they are to spare him a sop, and even then he'll barely get a sniff (of précis) in the paragraph he is allotted. Ancient writers leave him without a trace: only the exceptional circumstances of exile had whining Ovid lump him – in 28th place – into his exhaustively comprehensive catalogue of contemporary writers, meant to figure collectively that non-event ‘The Action at Rome minus Naso’, in the last of his Letters from Pontus (4.16.34: our sole testimonium). So he has never been needed for writing about any other author.
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Barry, Kevin. "Lullabies for Insomniacs: The Writer and Contemporary Irish Society." Irish Review (1986-), no. 2 (1987): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/29735274.
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Alsztyniuk, Anna. "Вобраз героя ў аповесцях Андрэя Федарэнкі (на аснове кніг Ланцуг і Ціша)". Acta Polono-Ruthenica 4, № XXIII (2018): 7–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.31648/apr.3561.
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Andrey Fiedarenka (born in 1959) – author of the books: History of the disease (1989), Misery (1994), Afghan casket (2002), No one’s (2009), The Chain (2012), Silence (2014) and others, winner of many awards, including Jerzy Giedroyc Literary Award. The writer is considered a classic of Belarusian literature. In his artistic work, three basic types of heroes can be distinguished: inhabitants of villages, city dwellers and writers. The presentation of often difficult family relations, differences in characters and life priorities of the heroes become for A. Fiedarenka a pretext for deliberations on the subject of contemporary man’s life, his attitude towards people and nature. In his stories, the writer presents primarily people disappointed with life, lonely, seeking the sense of existence in contact with nature. Only hero-writers can be distinguished from the gallery of poor wretches.
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Nhan, Tran Thi Mai. "Vietnam contemporary novels and “the Calls of Art”." Science & Technology Development Journal - Social Sciences & Humanities 1, no. 4 (2018): 58–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.32508/stdjssh.v1i4.464.
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Since the 1960s, people in the world have talked about “the death” of novels and tried to find solutions to “revive” them. However, according to M. Kundera – a writer and the author of “The Art of the Novel”, if the novel goes to “the end”, it’s not necessarily that it has fully developed its abilities, knowledge, forms, but because it has missed the opportunities to hear “sensitive calls” – the calls of game, the calls of dream, the callS of thoughts and the call of time, which reminds us of interesting thinkings about the contemporary Vietnamese novels. After 1986, Vietnamese novels have made breakthroughs and had a rich harvest of novels, but the development path of the Vietnamese novels still experiences ups and downs. In this paper, we aim to learn which “calls of the art” Vietnamese novels have heard, and which calls are vague echoes. Thereby, we also hope writers will listen and come closer to those sensitive calls of novels so that Vietnamese literature would have pinnacle novels, shortening the distance from the world’s literature.
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Chaudhary, Ankita. "DIASPORA AND IDENTITY IN NAIPAUL’S WORKS : A SELECT STUDY." SCHOLARLY RESEARCH JOURNAL FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES 9, no. 66 (2021): 15461–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.21922/srjis.v9i66.6841.
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“Write what you know” - this is the age-old advice said by someone to all the novelists. Surajprasad Naipaul, generally known as V. S. Naipaul, took it more seriously than others. Naipaul’s grandparents migrated from Uttar Pradesh India to Trinidad. His grandfather started working as an indentured laborer in the sugarcane estates there. They faced many problems regarding settlement and adjustment in this new cultural environment. That’s why Naipaul’s works are replete with the themes of diaspora. He applied his uniquely careful prose style to the point where the observer has called him the greatest living writer of English prose. Often known as the world’s writer, Naipaul is both one of the most highly regarded and one of the most controversial of contemporary writers. Much of his work deals with individuals who feel estranged from the societies. The present paper is an effort to analyze his select works based on diaspora and identity. Different characters in his fiction and non-fiction works seem to be in search of their identity in this world. Cultural-clash and hybridity, these twin themes, are also dominant in his works and I have tried to highlight all these diaspora-related issues in this paper.
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Ranen Omer-Sherman. "The Writer Uprooted: Contemporary Jewish Exile Literature (review)." Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 28, no. 1 (2009): 196–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sho.0.0427.
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Diethe, Carol. "Nietzsche and the contemporary writer: What does it all mean?" History of European Ideas 20, no. 1-3 (1995): 135–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0191-6599(95)92933-l.
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Pham, Quang Van. "CONTEMPORARY FRENCH LITERATURE: SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE CREATION AND CRITIQUE." Science and Technology Development Journal 15, no. 4 (2012): 30–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.32508/stdj.v15i4.1830.
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What is the value of literature in society today? This question seems fundamental and has already become the focus for many writers and critics in contemporary French literature, especially after the appearance of Structuralism. The objective of this paper is not to question the function of literature in society but to insist on the existential aspect of the literature and his relationship with the world of language. Specifically, we focus on the language element as an “another” reality that becomes not only space of creation, but opens a visible way to critique. Thus, the dialectical relationship between creative writing and language itself argues contemporary literature. To justify this hypothesis, we take as example the case of Roland Barthes and Jacques Lacan, who implement the language in literary analysis. Towards the literary creation, Christian Prigent exemplifies contemporary writer who treats language as the essence of his literary works.
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م. حسين علي خضير بهاري الشويلي, م,. "Chekhov’s Protagonists in Contemporary Russian Writers’ Stories Hussein Ali Khudair Bahari." لارك 4, no. 43 (2021): 1126–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.31185/lark.vol4.iss43.2044.
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The continuity of Chekov’s text adheres to the existence of his protagonists everywhere and then. The presence of Chekhov's heroes in every place and time is the key to the text's long-term viability. He described various characters, upon whom feelings were shown in different situations, specifically feeling scared among his protagonists. The character of (Belekov) in “The introversive man” who fears everything is different from the protagonist in “Khemech” by the contemporary writer Yuri Buyda. The protagonist’s wife made an unusual reaction against Chekov after her husband's death. She screamed: “I hate your writer Chekov! I hate him! I hate him!”. This reaction was a protest and a denial of the cover idea which had become a literary mode in literary works and daily life as was presented by Chekov in “The Introversive man”. The modern writer V. Bitsokh was able in “The cabinet” to show fear in people’s behavior in the Soviet Union, and so he did show how permanent fear of the protagonists’ environment was a common factor with Chekov’s. As for the female writer G. Shcherbakova in her “The introversive man”, she presented a character of a school headmistress named (Vania) who was dedicated and ambitious. However, she neglected an important aspect of her life, making a family. This was a struggle for her cover in Chekov. Shcherbakova named her story after Chekov’s “The introversive man”, but her protagonist differed from Chekov’s (Varinka) who did not recognize others’ feelings. Here, Chekov’s text gained its controversy and dialogue in a contemporary and modernist way.
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Karl, Frederick R. "Contemporary Biographers of Nineteenth-Century Novelists." Victorian Literature and Culture 25, no. 1 (1997): 191–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150300004708.
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A sudden scholarly interest in Robert Louis Stevenson has resulted in a good many publications — his collected letters, a brief life by Ian Bell, a more authoritative life by Frank McLynn, and a very full biography of Fanny Stevenson, the American woman who lived with the writer for the last twenty years of his life. Besides informing us about the Stevensons, this outpouring says a good deal about where biography is now, in the mid-1990s.
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Nakoneczny, Tomasz. "Pielewin i pustka. Rzecz o nowych horyzontach literatury." Kultury Wschodniosłowiańskie - Oblicza i Dialog, no. 6 (September 22, 2018): 131–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/kw.2016.6.11.
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The prose of Victor Pelevin, one of the best-known contemporary Russian writers, is usually associated with postmodernism. Some interpreters believe, however, that the proper context for the discussion of Pelevin is not postmodernism, but the traditional Russian cultural categories. For the author of this article the more fruitful way is to search for a variety of traditional and modern sources of cultural inspiration (intertextuality), which helped to establish the new forms of communication between writer and reader in the works of Pelevin.
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Syrotinski, Michael. "Globalization, mondialisation and the immonde in Contemporary Francophone African Literature." Paragraph 37, no. 2 (2014): 254–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/para.2014.0125.
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Taking as its theoretical frame of reference Jean-Luc Nancy's distinction between globalization and mondialisation, this article explores the relationship between contemporary Africa, the ‘world’ and the ‘literary’. The discussion centres on a number of present-day African novelists, and looks in particular at a controversial recent text by the Cameroonian writer and critic, Patrice Nganang, who is inspired by the work of the well-known theorist of postcolonial Africa, Achille Mbembe. For both writers ‘Africa’, as a generic point of reference, is seen in terms of a certain genealogy of Africanist thinking, from colonial times through to the contemporary postcolonial era, and the article reflects on what a radical challenge to this genealogy might entail. Using a more phenomenologically oriented reading of monde (world) and immonde (abject, literally un-world), this rupture could be conceived in terms of the kind of ‘epistemological break’ that thinkers like Althusser and Foucault introduced into common usage and theoretical currency in contemporary French thought back in the 1960s.
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Liu, Xiaojuan. "Annie Proulx—A Writer in Quest." English Language and Literature Studies 8, no. 4 (2018): 104. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ells.v8n4p104.
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This article reviews Annie Proulx&rsquo;s life and her writing career and examines the quest motif throughout her writing, in order to shed light on Annie Proulx studies. It explores Proulx&rsquo;s insight into the existential predicament of contemporary people living in a post-industrial society as traditional culture is getting lost and traditional ways of living are out of date. By setting her characters on the journey of quest in an attempt to discover who they really are, Proulx has invigorated the traditional quest motif.
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Reid, Neil. "Contemporary Polynesian Conceptions of Giftedness." Gifted Education International 6, no. 1 (1989): 30–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026142948900600108.
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The writer describes the rich cultures of the Maoris and South Pacific islanders before the influence of European culture; he suggests, however, that despite the effects of colonialism, the richness of the Polynesian cultures has endured. However, Dr Reid argues that Western oriented psychometric tests are inadequate tools for the identification of gifted Polynesian children; Western oriented teachers often undervalue the Polynesian cultures and Polynesian parents generally lack the confidence and experience to be articulate about their children's educational needs. He pleads for the development of an education system in which all cultures are recognized and appreciated. He also argues that educators embrace a broader conception of giftedness that acknowledges cultural differences.
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Reichmann, Brunilda Tempel. "“Tá dificil competir": Adaptação da trilogia de Michael Dobbs, House of Cards, pela BBC e pela Netflix." Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies 72, no. 1 (2019): 213–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2019v72n1p213.
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This paper presents a reading of the political trilogy House of Cards, To Play the King e The Final Cut, by Michael Dobbs, an English writer; and their adaptation by the BBC and Netflix series. I try to demonstrate how novelists, script writers and directors of series celebrate the unparalleled art of Shakespeare by reworking themes, updating contexts and rebuilding personality traits of his unforgettable characters. In short, this text aims to analyze the series and to recover some of the genetic characteristics of Shakespeare’s plays in contemporary artistic/mediatic production.
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Vērdiņš, Kārlis, and Jānis Ozoliņš. "Latvian Queer Kharms? Sex and Power in Rihards Bargais’ Gossip." Interlitteraria 21, no. 2 (2017): 305. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/il.2016.21.2.11.
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In 2012 the Latvian poet Rihards Bargais published a book called Tenkas (‘Gossip’), a collection of small absurd narratives, inspired by the Russian writer Daniil Kharms, that describes his fellow writers, well-known Latvian personalities and himself. Many of the pieces have an explicitly sexual character; one of them even resulted in legal action for libel, a situation unique in Latvian contemporary literature. Crossing several boundaries of reality and fiction, private and public, as well as the allowed and the forbidden, Bargais confronts society using sexual imagery in his literary work.
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Poliszczuk, Jarosław. "Агония „красного человека”: сложные дилеммы Светланы Алексиевич". Kultury Wschodniosłowiańskie - Oblicza i Dialog, № 8 (20 грудня 2018): 115–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/kw.2018.8.10.
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The article is dedicated to the Svetlana Alexievich literary works in the cultural and social context of our time. As the writer has recognized, she writes about the end of the epoch which was called homo sovieticus. She paid a great attention to the traumatic experience regardless of to whom it belongs: to the Soviet servants or theirs victims – the ones who were repressed and called dissidents. Humanistic pathos is one of the main features of Svetlana Alexievich’s writings. It overestimates the value of individuality and private life in the contemporary society.
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Lakićević, Dragan. "Autoportret pisca u intervjuima Jovana Radulovića." Узданица 18, no. 2 (2021): 189–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/uzdanica18.2.189l.
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In the course of the forty years of his literary work, the writer, novelist and playwright Jovan Radulović gave a large number of interviews – to the most renowned newspapers and magazines of his time, in which he answered questions from journalists and writers ‒ about himself, his biography, literary space and work. These conversations were either poetic or had to do with current affairs, depending on the time and occasion of the interview. At the same time, the occasions were a chronicle of contemporary Serbian literary scene. This paper systematizes the thematic fields of Radulović’s interviews.
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Dibra, Vjollca. "Social and Historic Contextuality of Contemporary Albanian Literature." PRIZREN SOCIAL SCIENCE JOURNAL 2, no. 3 (2018): 79. http://dx.doi.org/10.32936/pssj.v2i3.65.
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To reach the reader of 2018, Contemporary Albanian literature has overcome many obstacles and politics ideology. It felt violated by a certain, imposing and savage ideology. The method of socialist realism by some writers was embraced with delight and conviction, and from some others it was used for compromise to bring to light their works, which, in case of incompatibility with the relevant ideology, was banned from publishing. However, given that literature is the creation of the human spirit, it is unnatural to think that all this literature of this period has not expressed their feelings, sorrows, dreams and their love. Perhaps, we can argue with conviction, which has been a memory for the past and also a dream for the future. This literature overwhelmed the content imposed in 1945 and continued to be the most rebellious. The national liberation war was not the subject of the 1960s literature, which was more stubborn than what was written fifteen years ago, even by the same authors. Here, summed up as a great deal in the history of contemporary literature, find the first and the foremost authors of this literature, their best works, publishers, and their echoes in the language of translation.
 Key words: Literature, History, World War II, Writer, Contemporary, Education, Publisher.
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Selyutina, Elena A. "‘NARRATIVE ABOUT THE AUTHOR’ AND THE PROBLEM OF WRITERS’ SELF-IDENTIFICATION IN MODERN LITERARY PROCESS." Вестник Пермского университета. Российская и зарубежная филология 13, no. 1 (2021): 109–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/2073-6681-2021-1-109-118.
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The research is devoted to the analysis of the ‘narrative about the author’ in interviews with contemporary writers. Modern literary process is characterized by reconfiguration and reevaluation of the writerreader- text system. The author’s persona, their direct speech intended for different types of readership are coming to the fore. In interviews, a special ‘narrative about the author’ (self-identification as a writer) is formed. The author of the article comes to a conclusion that writers are faced with the necessity of public self-reflection, self-commenting, i. e. creation of a metatext – a second-order text about one's own creative work; they become self-interpreters, gaining the ability to influence the reader's perception vectors, while shifting from the sphere of the sacred to the sphere of consumption. Text as a communication act ceases to be alienated from the author (the author-text-reader relationship becomes horizontal), the reader perceives the work through the model of personality that the writer has presented to the public. It is necessary to study the author's narrative of self-representation as a system of voluntary or repressive conventions adopted by the author (narrative framework), restrictions imposed by the author on themselves, and ways of their representation, taking into account the problem of verification of this self-representation. The way the ‘narrative about the author’ is arranged is determined by many factors; the description of those can serve as an illustration of the dynamics of modern writers’ views on the essence of literary creativity and the mission of the writer in the time of literary centrality coming to collapse. The study of the ‘narrative about the author’ is relevant in the context of understanding the complexity of determining the main artistic trends of the present time. The research is based on the material of interviews with the writer E. Vodolazkin devoted to his novel Lavr.
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Jasim, Dr Mohammed N. "A Look at Realism and its Reflection In the poetry of Contemporary Poets in Iran and Iraq." ALUSTATH JOURNAL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 58, no. 3 (2019): 25–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.36473/ujhss.v58i3.910.
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Realism attempts to discovering and expressing reality and replacing reality by imagination, dreaming, and legends, the realist writer uses his genius and modernity instead of a fictitious one in observing and expressing details. The school of realism is one of the most fundamental art schools that emerged in France in the mid-nineteenth century and expanded rapidly. Avoiding the imagination and inner inspirations of the romantics and addressing the realities of the universe outsidewere the most basic principles of this school that poets, writers and artists adopted and followed. In Iran and Iraq, poets and writers focused on social issues and the decline and backwardness of their own countries.The literature of each nation reflects the political and social conditions of the nation. Given that the socioeconomic conditions of Iran and Iraq have been affected by the same events in contemporary times, the thoughts and the literary themes of these two literatures are largely similar. Among the prominent contemporary poets of Iran and Iraq are: Nima Youshij and Siavash Kasraei in Iran, Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and Abdul Wahhab al-Bayati in Iraq, pointed out that intense tendencies towards freedom and support of workers and farmers have brought the situation to the attention of the country. This studyis limited to studying four poets (Nima Youshij, Siavash Kasraei, Badr shaker al-Sayyab and Abdul Wahhab al-Bayati). By analyzing realism in the poetry of those four poets, each writer believes in particular realism, describing and expressing the social, political, and the describing the nature from the language of each poet in his own way. In his realistic description, each poet expresses a socio-political dimension more prominently
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Bukowiec, Paweł. "From Baranowski to Baranauskas, from James to Ngũgĩ: Post-Colonial Aspects of Linguistic Switch." Studia Interkulturowe Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, no. 13 (November 25, 2020): 219–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.31338/2544-3135.si.2020-13.11.
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The article attempts to perform a comparative study of the phenomenon of the so-called linguistic switch, i.e., a change of languages in which the writer creates his/her works. One side of the analysis focuses on nineteenth-century Lithuanian poets, represented mainly by Antanas Baranauskas, and the other on the contemporary Kenyan prose writer Ngu˜g˜ wa Thiong’o. The juxtaposition of ı such extremely distant authors: 1. allows a better understanding of the specificity of multilingualism in both eighteenth-century Lithuanian literature and contemporary fiction; 2. proves once again the universality of postcolonial sensitivity; 3. constitutes an attempt at comparative thinking in the context of world literature.
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Senchin, R. V., and E. I. Konstantinova. "‘Not a good time for positive heroes’." Voprosy literatury, no. 5 (November 9, 2019): 75–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2019-5-75-90.
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E. Konstantinova interviews R. Senchin, a writer, journalist, shortlisted entry and winner of numerous literary prizes: Russian Booker (2009), National Bestseller (2010), The Culture Prize of the Russian Government (2012), Yasnaya Polyana (2014), The Big Book [Bolshaya Kniga] (2015), and others. They discuss Senchin’s personal creative experiments and discoveries as well as contemporary Russian prose in general. Senchin opines that modern literature, having digested the experiences of the ‘new realism’ of the 1990s–2000s, has moved on to discover writers’ individual characteristics and harness new subjects, including documentary ones. Given the limitations of the forms and methods of artistic literature, Senchin argues, an unexpected choice of topic, language, intonation or plot comes to the forefront. However, he prefers to stick to recognizable, traditional subjects and recurrent characters. The exploration of the motivations and personality of those characters (the writer Savateev and the office clerk Chashchin) takes up most of the interview.
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Bezhan, Faridullah. "A Contemporary Writer from Afghanistan: Akram Osman and His Short Stories." British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 35, no. 1 (2008): 21–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13530190801890212.
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Starky, Thomas. "The Greenwich Meridian of Literature and the „Peripheries” of World Literature: Lu Xun’s Alternative Cartography." Tekstualia 2, no. 65 (2021): 41–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.2748.
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The article discusses Pascale Casanova’s mapping of world literature according to a division into center and peripheries, focusing on her idea of the Greenwich Meridian of literature as a spatial and temporal measure of the world’s literary production. The related idea of literary consecration of peripheral writers is explained. The possibility of an alternative cartography that emphasizes literary transfers via translations between peripheries is analyzed on the basis of the famous modern Chinese writer Lu Xun’s theoretical and translation output. His practice of translating peripheral writers, often carried out second-hand via German editions, potentially challenges popular contemporary mappings of literary space such as those developed by P. Casanova and F. Moretti.
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Шимонік, Данута. "Ivan Franko’s publications on slavic issues in “Kurier Lwowski”." Слово і Час, no. 1 (February 20, 2020): 76–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.33608/0236-1477.2020.01.76-85.
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Ivan Franko’s publications on slavic issues in “Kurier Lwowski”
 The article deals with the series of texts by Ivan Franko on the subject of panslavism, or more specifically the Slavic question, published in 1888 in the several issues of “Kurier Lwowski”. Franko presents his understanding of the contemporary political situation and speaks about panslavism in this context, relating the trend to “the flashes of the national feelings” of the Slavs. Penetrating the essence of the movement, the writer and publicist emphasizes the presence of two different currents in it: centralism (Muscovite) and federalism. The Ukrainian writer is sympathetic to the latter that provides for the opportunity of uniting the Slavic tribes in order to defend their common interests and includes the principle of mutual respect and preservation of each national unit’s traditions. The writer supports his position with such authorities as Mykola Kostomarov, Mykailo Drahomanov, and others. Franko writes a lot about the role of the Slavophile Brotherhood of Cyril and Methodius, founded by Kostomarov, and similarity of its program to the posterior Drahomanov’s one. Following the thoughts of historians, Franko emphasizes that Slavic peoples feel the need for “arranging the mutual relationship” because they share common interests. The most important issue for the Slavs, according to the writer and journalist, is the freedom of every nation, now limited, in particular by “tsarist despotism”. “The Slavs can create power — not dangerous to the world, because there is no need in threatening anyone, but sufficient to secure each national individuality and the greatest freedom of national and cultural development”, writes the author of the series. Franko dedicates the final series of texts to the Slovaks and the Czechs.