ENCLS Newsletter No. 2 May 2016

ESCL/SELC - 9th Congress/9ème Congrès - Program, 2022

9th Congress/9ème Congrès - European Society of Comparative Literature/Société européenne de littérature comparée Imagining Inclusive Communities in European Culture / Imaginer des communautés inclusives dans la culture européenne ​September 5-9, 2022 - Sapienza University of Rome Full Program available

2019

We live in Post-Truth Era largely with metaphors. Moreover intertextuality became an important component of the artistic creativity. Therefore, being an independent individual and to reach the truth became even more important. In this context, the Killing Commendatore novel of Haruki Murakami (1949) was chosen as an example and the in-between situation of the post-modern individual was discussed by using descriptive method. In Killing Commendatore novel (2018), a thirty-six years old portrait painter who had been betrayed by his wife, moved to Odawara, from Tokyo and settled there in a mansion that once was the house and studio of famous painter named Tomohiko Amada. One day, in the attic, our painter, also narrator of the novel discovered by accident, an unknown painting of Amada in classical Japanese style. In this painting, the Killing Commendatore scene of Mozart’s Don Giovanni was depicted. Then, he found himself in a mysterious world full of enigmatic people and supernatural i...

Littera Aperta. International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, 2016

LITTERA APERTA. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES. ISSUE 4 (2016). COMPLETE ISSUE

World Literature Studies

2014

William Wordsworth's 'Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1798)' and Sumitrandan Pant's 'Pallav Pravesh (1926)' are considered to be milestones in English and Hindi literatures respectively. While Wordsworth, in collaboration with Coleridge, broke away from the preceding trends and propounded new theories of poetry and poetic diction, Pant made an in-depth analysis of the poetic tendencies of his established predecessors and argued for similarity between the language of common speech and that of poetry. Both the poets defined the function and purpose of poetry in their own way and received criticism and appreciation from the critics and anthologists. While Wordsworth is remembered as the propounder of 'Romanticism' in World Literature, Pant is considered to be a leading exponent of the 'Hindi Chhayavad', to give new directions to 'Hindi Kavita and Hindi Alochana'. This paper aims at an overview of what necessitated the writing of these relativ...

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