This essay reconsiders interpretations of Shakespeare by Irish writer Anna Murphy Jameson and the American Transcendentalist Margaret Fuller. Developing an informal method in which the voice of the female critic rallies ...

This paper reveals that Shakespeare studies in Japan originated through competing notions of literary studies. Traditional Japanese ideas about literature differed markedly from Anglophone ones, which focused on grammatical ...

Shakespeare’s travels into Persia started in the middle of the nineteenth century when modern socio-political forces and the need for a powerful army were fomenting important changes in the traditional structure of government, ...

India has the longest engagement with Shakespeare of any non-Western country. In the eastern Indian region of Bengal, contact with Shakespeare began in the eighteenth century. His plays were read and acted in newly established ...

This paper discusses the image of the city of Bruges, as represented in Belgian writer Georges Rodenbach’s novels Bruges-la-Morte (1892) and Le Carillonneur (1897). By acquiring the dimension of a full-fledged character, ...

The theory of self-recognition of the female universe elaborated by Hélène Cixous in the essay The laugh of the Medusa1975) together with the mechanisms of postcolonial alienation analyzed by Franz Fanon in The Damned of ...

Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt's “Cycle de l’invisible” is a series of eight novels published between 1997 and 2019. It is composed of short stories, each of which questions spirituality through the prism of an initiatory journey ...

The novels of Marcel Proust and Georges Perec present kitsch under the states of principles and modes according to the theoretical grid developed by Abraham Moles. This study therefore drew conceptual resources from the ...