Among the rich variety of approaches to the study of Vergil's arte allusiva one finds at least one, quite understandable, common element-namely, an overriding concern with the text itself as the dominant locus of meaning. This is true of Professor Conte's earlier work, at any rate, as well as of those who stress the philological Alexandrian attitude towards poetic composition,2 and even of the ...

the reader as one of the three angles of literary criticism triangle besides its two other angles i.e. the writer and literary work is considered as one of the effective factors in studying a  literary work in critical circles. some critics call him consumer on the one hand and producer on the other hand because of his interpretations and perceptions. accordingly, literary works are divided int...

the translator of a literary text has to observe the semantic sense of the words, the weight, the cultural setting, and other technical features of the original text to yield an acceptable translation in the tl. the accomplishment however is not that easy, for the translator meets some major impediments in performing the task. a translator who is familiar with different critical approaches, a t...

One of the least-explored areas in the field of Hispanic literary studies is the interrelationship between the visual arts and literature. Although there have been far-reaching developments in the field of the visual arts and in comparative approaches to literary studies, there has been little production in the confluences of the visual arts and literature and the cultural projection and dissem...

1. Terminology and Basic Conception 2. The Traditional Concept of Translatio Studii 2.1. Translatio as a Cultural Figure 2.2. Political, Cultural and Religious Translatio 2.3. The Threefold Concept of Translatio Studii 2.4. Translatio Studii as Cultural Tradition 2.5. Translatio Studii as Cultural Transfer and Colonialism 2.6. Translatio Studii as a Shift of Hegemonic Culture 2.7. Symbolic Conf...

drama is an obvious cultural activity. this literary form is a means of solidarity between human beings and opens new horizons for dialogue among races, ethnicities and different colors in spite of different point of views, opinions and beliefs. drama is proper for applying national themes and calling for freedom, rising against oppression and resistance. the present article surveys the works o...

This chapter surveys and assesses from an ecocentric perspective some representative literary portrayals of the Australian deserts. Generally, it contrasts works that portray the desert as an alien, hostile, and undifferentiated void with works that recognise and value the biological particularities of specific desert places. It explores the literature of three dominant cultural orientations to...

This article regards a literary journey as representation of the diversity world, perceived by person in process his physical or virtual movement geographical space, conveyed form. One most important grounds for typology journeys is idea relationship between real and fictional subjects objects included writer narrative. According to reality fiction, divided into four main types: travel world; c...

construction of the universal subject imagined by the Enlightenment; comparative literature and world literature as the critical discourse that would render visible the cosmopolitan ethical and cultural world to come: Once we grasp the nature of art and poetry, its victory over human mortality and destiny, its creation of a new world order of the imagination, national vanities will disappear. M...