this article was written based on the key concept of polysystem theory which, in translating any literary text, emphasizes the transference of the social systems in which a text is embedded. as stated by tynjanov (1978a), polysystem theory saw translated literature as a system operating in the larger social systems of the target text. thus, the task of understanding as well as transferring such...

according to bourdieu’s cultural theory, the author’s trajectory reflects the dialectical relationship between his or her habitus and conditions of the literary field in a given historical situation. habitus is dialectically tied to the field and constructed with different capitals. in an author’s habitus, cultural capital plays the main role as the most significant capital. the field of litera...

In his article "A Comparative Literary History of Resurrection Plants" John Charles Ryan assembles a comparative history of resurrection plants through textual analysis of early botanical commentaries, herbal references, prose, poetry, and other sources. Resurrection plants include a diverse range of botanical species, typically of arid regions, that appear to come back to life after complete d...

Introduction In 1973, the Australian novelist Patrick White was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his novel “The Eye of the Storm.” At the ceremony in Stockholm the novelist was honoured for his “epic and psychological narrative art, which has introduced a new continent into literature.” This was undoubtedly true and White’s achievements have been followed by a new generation of noveli...

This paper discusses a theory of translating print-based literary texts for the web, called new media translation theory, and the principles underlying it as they play out in the online bibliography of writer Richard Brautigan.

In his article "World Literatures and Romanian Literary Criticism" Caius Dobrescu argues that the notion Weltliteratur of Goethe posits the concept of world literature as the conveyor of universal (i.e., cosmopolitan) skills of socio-cultural adaptation. The influence of this form of Weltliteratur on Romanian literary criticism is traceable from Westernization in the nineteenth century to the c...

References The contributions of narrative to medical ethics come primarily in two ways: firstly, from the use of stories (narratives) for their mimetic content—that is, for what they say; and secondly, from the methods of literary criticism and narrative theory for their analysis of diegetic form—that is, for their understanding of how stories are told and why it matters. Although narrative and...

Virginia Woolf, one of the prominent representatives of modernist novelist in England, has contributed significantly to the development of modern novel in both theory and practice. She abandoned traditional fictional devices and formulated her own distinctive techniques. The novels of Woolf tend to be less concerned with outward reality than with the inner life. Her masterpiece, To the Lighthou...

The idea of “literary democracy” can be traced back to the early twentieth century, which this article does by looking initially at work Georg Lukács. His distinctly humanist view literary democracy resonates with other key thinkers, including Erich Auerbach and Mikhail Bakhtin. But it is in contemporary Jacques Rancière that an explicit engagement resurfaces. task, then, becomes trace progress...