In his article "A Historical Account of Difference: A Comparative History of the Literary Cultures of Latin America," Mario J. Valdés addresses the well-recognized limitations of literary history as historical research. Valdés outlines the theoretical thinking that has guided the editors of The Oxford Comparative History of Latin American Literary Cultures to plan, organize, and complete the fi...

The purpose of the article is to determine specifics historical, detective, and other retro-genres their functioning in contemporary literature. methodology work built on interdisciplinary integration leading methods Cultural studies, philosophy, study art. culturological hermeneutics a dominant polymethodological approach. history-cultural method gives an opportunity trace genetic links tenden...

This paper examines a folklore interpretation of literary culture at the verse level. The author studies structural transformation syllabic text in which syllabic-accentual system versification has become standard. is what makes study innovative, as, traditionally, comparative focus on images and motifs. goal research to identify prerequisites, directions, mechanisms folklorisation verse. It re...

Fables are literary short stories intended to convey a moral maxim for some aspect of human living. Within the discipline of nursing, a fable is a medium by which stories and themes of humanly lived phenomena may be viewed in light of a particular philosophical lens of understanding. The fable offers possibilities for instruction through illuminating fictitious characters and offering notions f...

What is the role of interpretation—the close reading individual texts—in cognitive literary studies? In attempting to come grips with this vexed question, my article focuses on complex divides that separate practice interpretation from cognitive-scientific research. I argue studies can only fulfill their potential by moving beyond interpretation, and survey lines research have already put into ...

This paper evaluates several recent efforts to interpret the work of Nāgārjuna through the lens of modern symbolic logic. An attempt is made to uncover the premises that justify the use of symbolic logic for this purpose. This is accomplished through a discussion of (1) the historical origins of those premises in the Indian and Tibetan traditions, and (2) how such assumptions prejudice our unde...