Special Issue
2022-01-10- Contents of the JFLC Comparative Literature Special Issue
Guest Editors :Zhang Longxi, Omid Azadibougar
The editors are grateful to our contributors and above all particularly proud by the notable selection of scholars brought together in this Comparative Literature Special Issue of the Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures. To read and download the essays, click here.
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Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures - Call for Papers
Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures is seeking for submissions on literary theory, comparative literary studies, translation studies, linguistic studies, and sinology, etc. We accept submissions on a regularly basis. For futher details, please contact us via email: enjflc@hunnu.edu.cn.
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2022/11/30- Announcement: "Comparative Literature Beyond Eurocentrism" International Conference
Comparative Literature has for a very long time been trapped in its Eurocentric disciplinary limitations. The study of non-Western languages and literatures were (and still largely are) consigned to departments of Oriental/Area Studies in the "West." Thus, the languages of...
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Author:David Porter, Omid Azadibougar
Abstract: Introduction of the Special Column "World Literature before World Literature"
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- Lost Libraries: A Lesson for the Notion of World Literature
Author:Jean MacDonald
Abstract: Literature, with its diverse and broad spectrum of platform, medium, and delivery, has long been an indicator of a civilization’s culture. How the literature of various cultures was either preserved, lost, or shared has shaped the modern conception of World Literature. Libr...
Vol. 7 No. 2 Dec. 2023 Time:2024-02-01
- Georgian Literature before the Weltliteratur
Author:Irma Ratiani
Abstract: The history of Georgian writing starts much earlier than when Goethe introduced the term “Weltliteratur.” It starts from the era of Christianity from the 4th century. Due to the fast spread of Christianity in the Early Medieval period, Georgia was already included in the European net of Christian writing. All branches of Christian spiritual literature were presented. Georgian culture and literature naturally were developing in the frame of the Western European tradition. The period of the 11th-12th centuries was a Golden Era for Georgia, and the heyday of fame for Georgian culture and literature as well. Precisely during this period, “The Knight in the Panther’s Skin” was created by Shota Rustaveli. Apart from its aesthetic, philosophical, and worldview depth, it is a first text in Georgian literature as well as in European literature which reflects the
Vol. 7 No. 2 Dec. 2023 Time:2024-02-01
- Aspects of Indigenous Participation in Brazilian Literature
Author:Fábio Almeida de Carvalho
Abstract: The article both presents how, from the end of the 1980s onwards, native peoples have begun to occupy certain spaces of textual production and circulation that they had not previously occupied in the Brazilian cultural scene (for social, linguistic, and cultural...
Vol. 7 No. 2 Dec. 2023 Time:2024-02-01
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