Comparative and World Literature

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s theory of «minor literature» has had considerable impact not only on the study of Franz Kafka, but on the field of comparative literature. This article questions whether this theory’s linguistic assumptions are adequate for the complex cultural landscape of modern Prague, and examin…

During the 1980s, the Slovak literary theorist Dionýz Ďurišin drew on the structuralist and Marxist frameworks prevalent in the socialist Bloc to develop his concept of interliterary communities. In 1992, he published Čo je svetová literatúra? (What is World Literature?), which provided the foundation for applying thi…

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Özet Bu çalışmada, İngiliz edebiyatından John Bunyan’ın (1628-1688) Çarmıh Yolcusu (1678/1684), Alman edebiyatından Hermann Hesse’nin (1877-1962) Siddhartha (1922), Brezilya edebiyatından Paulo Coelho’nun (1947-) Simyacı (1988) ve Türk edebiyatından Orhan Pamuk’un (1952-) Yeni Hayat (1994) adlı romanları karşılaştırma…

This dissertation focuses on a group of 20th and 21st century novelists writing in English - Samuel Beckett, J.M. Coetzee, and Kazuo Ishiguro - whose fiction is populated by figures of disconsolation: characters who resist, evade, or - in the case of Ishiguro's protagonists - assiduously attempt to conform to the cons…

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This paper interrogates the evolving concept of fidelity in contemporary translation theory by examining English-language novels translated into Romanian. Moving beyond the binary opposition between “faithfulness” and “creativity,” the study reconceptualizes fidelity as an interpretive, ethical, and culturally situate…

This paper examines the central significance of failure in Emil Cioran’s major literary and philosophical works. Situating him within the tradition of the literature of failure, this study demonstrates how failure paradoxically emerges as a source of clarity, liberation, and artistic passion. This study explores the m…

Romanian symbolism, whose theoretician was the poet Alexandru Macedonski, discovers its authentic and original vision only in a later stage, through George Bacovia. The greatest Romanian symbolist poet caused a mutation of structure and vision in Romanian lyric poetry. In Romanian lyric poetry, authentic Romanian symb…

This article examines how the Czech-American author Jaroslav Kalfař’s first novel Spaceman of Bo hemia (2016) uses metaphors of space travel and alien life to portray social issues and the linguistic and psychological traumas of immigration and nationalism. The translingual aspect of Kalfař’s text is further explored…

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