The main aim of required reading in schools is to educate the reading audience who is capable of aesthetic communicating with a literary work. Supposing that the freedom of choice substantially defines pupil relationship towards required reading, the author reflects upon the effectiveness of planning and realization of the current curriculum. As for the system of required reading in the Croatia...

This publication contains polemic commentaries to the text by Beata Garlej „Panorama badań aksjologicznych we współczesnym literaturoznawstwie polskim” [Panorama of axiological research in contemporary Polish literary studies] („Tematy i Konteksty” 11(16)/2021). has been divided into three parts: “Lublin school (KUL school)”, “Torun school” and “Warsaw school”. The lack authoress’s explanations...

This study documents a teacher-researcher’s presentations of 24 literary works to a class of 28 Taiwanese EFL senior high school students during a fourteen-week experiment, and reports on those students’ perceptions of the texts introduced and their attitudes towards literature in general. In preparing literary texts, the teacher explored the notion of computer assisted literature teaching (CAL...

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the social realism is a significant literary school. one may notice this school in various forms and works in the world literature. its source and origin can be traced in the marxism philosophy which has influenced the eastern european peoples. many works, such as the novels, poems, and plays have been formed on the basis of this school in russia and the third world countries. najib mahfuz is o...

In the digital age, literary practice proliferates across different media platforms. Contemporary literary texts are written, circulated and read in a variety of media, ranging from traditional print formats to online environments. This essay explores the implications that the transmedial dispersal of literary culture has for intermedial literary studies. If literature in a multiplicity of medi...

In answering the question 'what is special about the gene' from a literary perspective, the article suggests that if literary appreciation is often seen as a mark of human exceptionalism, knowledge of the gene may undermine this claim. Tracing some of the historical and philosophical complexities that circulate around the word 'gene', the article argues that in one sense 'the gene' plays the le...

World Literature, traditionally known as Comparative Literature, draws together literatures and cultures of a wide variety of countries and regions. Western and non-Western literary traditions are included in the curriculum, which emphasizes overall the junction – and not division of the past and present, ancient and modern. Ancient Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome – the roots of Classical Traditio...

This article examines connections between the Protestant Reformation and American literature and argues that Protestantism’s best expression exists in contemporary iterations of self-reliance. The first part focuses on William Ellery Channing’s and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s literary criticism of John Milton, a poet who represents the Protestant ideals these writers combine with American principles ...