The goal of this article is to establish the meaning of the genre as a mechanism intended for the artistic completion. For this purpose, we discuss the genetic aspect of the genre; starting with mythological foundations ...

This paper deals with the glorification of the aviation in Italy between the two world wars. Under the Fascist regime the aviation was celebrated in different ways - not at least with the arts and in literature. Aviation ...

In Ngozi Onwurahs short film/documentary The Body Beautiful (1991), Madge, the female protagonist, is in such excruciating pain that, in order to survive, after the birth of her second child, she undertakes mastectomy. ...

Performativity, as defined by Judith Butler, is a means of analysis that focuses on the dynamic constitution of a subject, rather than focusing on the end result alone. The postperformative rut, into which criticism of ...

In the twentieth century, the concept of Eastern Europe gained strong political connotations. Therefore, the question arises, if its culture and art are also performed in this manner? Marked by the Warsaw Pact and the ...

T. S. Eliot's vision of the modern metropolis is heavily indebted to the French symbolists' treatment of the city. The figure of the urban flaneur, present in Gérard de Nervals and Charles Baudelaires poetry, resurfaces ...

The diary as an independent genre has not yet received the large attention of the autobiography in literary theory. Therefore, in this paper a number of theoretical reflections must be addressed to examine the characteristics ...