Ever since Martin Esslin formulated the concept of a Theatre of the Absurd, criticism has endorsed the notion almost exclusively in a theatrical sense. The need to open up Esslin’s concept to the field of cinema now seems ...

The article attempts to isolate the methods of world-modeling in the genre which is most affected by the centripetal tendencies — a novelistic cycle. Novelistic cycles in the Russian literature of the twentieth century ...

The purpose of this article is to present Stefania Skwarczynska’s genre theory in order to show its inspirational character for the contemporary genre studies. The scholar’s works, predeceasing threads of theories enclosed ...

Despite Adorno’s famous 1949 proclamation that to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric, poets nevertheless do so continually. Even so, some Holocaust topics, and even language, remain tacitly forbidden. This essay ...

Julio Cortázar defines the short story as a genre that creates unpredictable effects on the reader through its poetical dynamics. While this definition foregrounds the unforeseeable elements of the genre, Cortázar also ...

In 1957 newly independent Ghana under the leadership of Kwane Nkrumah — acknowledged as, „Osagyefo” — „the Redeemer” —, adopts a socialistic system with limited success. Ultimately, Ghana descends into a dictatorial ...