The “New” Beckett and the Word/Image Parallax: An Infra-Disciplinary Short-Circuit by Robert Kilroy

“…The broader argument is that the field of Beckett Studies allows for a new type of disciplinary encounter – what I call an “infra-disciplinary” short-circuit – to take place between art history and literary criticism.…”
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FEMINIST LITERARY CRITIQUE OF WOMEN’S REPRESENTATION IN NAGUIB MAHFOUZ’S LAYALI ALF LAYLAH by Palendika Alandira, Fadlil Yani Ainusyamsi, Rohanda Rohanda

“…This research examines the portrayal of women in Arabian Nights and Days by Naguib Mahfouz through the lens of feminist literary criticism, focusing on the character of Dunyazad. …”
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Marcas da violência e jogos do poder no romance urbano de Patrícia Melo by Cláudia Castanheira

“…Its thematic universe and discursive strategies break not only with the prospects of the more contemporary feminist literary criticism, but also with the bourgeois ideological system, more broadly. …”
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Percival Everett’s The Water Cure: A Blind Read by Anne-Laure Tissut

“…The exploration and questioning carried out by Everett call for new ways of reading and writing literary criticism.…”
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Ditadura militar e literatura “parajornalística”: desconstruindo relações by Sabrina Schneider

“…It is understood that, in their appreciation of these works, academic literary critics considered only the impact of national political situation – the military dictatorship –, taking up these narratives as mere substitutes for censored newspapers. …”
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Coda: The “Queen Under the Hill,” or, Robert Duncan’s Lesson in Essential Autobiography by Rob Halpern

“…This is a hybrid work of creative scholarship: a lyrical essay that blends personal history with literary criticism. In it, I question my apprenticeship with Duncan when I was a young twenty-something, as I was struggling to understand what it might mean to be a “good gay poet.” …”
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Tales Of Possession And Dispossession by Elsa Charléty

“…Drawing on Edwidge Danticat’s writings, as well as anthropological research in Haiti and theories of loss and grief in literary criticism, I show that Edwidge Danticat’s prose, while constantly negotiating the space between the collective and the individual, creates a language of exchange around the notion of absence. …”
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Sobre a recepção de O Antigo Regime e a Revolução pela historiografia da Revolução Francesa: da publicação da obra ao contexto do Bicentenário de 1789 by José Miguel Nanni Soares

“…The purpose of this paper is to offer an overview –although summary– of The Old Regime and the Revolution by the historiography of the French Revolution, from its publication to the context of the Bicentennial celebration (1789-1989).Among other aspects, it was demonstrated how, in spite of relevant and favorable opinions from eminent historians and literary critics, the famous Tocqueville work faced serious editorial and ideological challenges in the period between June 1856 and the first centenary of its appearance.In the wake of the postwar changes of the 1950s and, to a large extent, due to the important contributions of the eminent republican and socialist historian Georges Lefebvre, Tocqueville’s historical work began to attract a growing consideration of academic historians and the general public, becoming a pivotal author in both historiography and contemporary political debate during and after the celebration of the Bicentenary of the Revolution of 1789.…”
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Historical Topicality in Arnold Bennett and Edward Knoblock’s Milestones by Lukas Klik

“…However, although literary criticism has engaged with his novels, his dramatic oeuvre remains a blind spot in scholarship. …”
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Scrutinizing the representations of flood disaster imagery in Emile Zola’s work by Ferdinal Ferdinal, Oktavianus Oktavianus, Djusmalinar

“…Educators, researchers, and scientists from various fields, including literary critics, are striving to address the impacts of climate change and disasters on human beings, as depicted in Emile Zola's work "The Flood," which illustrates human vulnerability amidst natural disasters. …”
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The lowest canonical denominator: electronic literary texts, and the role of the information professional by Claire Warwick

“…This issue should concern not only literary critics, but also information professionals. Humanities scholars need diverse resources, rare texts and multiple editions of works. …”
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A Night at the Pictures : A Christmas Carol et la séduction du simulacra by Florent Christol

“…A Christmas Carol, which stands as one of the most popular works of Dickens, is not highly ranked by literary critics and scholars. The main reason for this somewhat paradoxical fate is that Dickens is known for his contribution to the novel, a genre preoccupied with issues of realism and the denunciation of social ills. …”
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Literary Translation Techniques in Professor Pamela Smith’s Translation of Akinwumi Is̩ola’s Ogun Omode to Treasury of Childhood Memories by O̩lálérè Adéyemi

“…Professor Pamela Smith has taken up the challenge to translate Ogún O̩mo̩dé written by Professor Akinwumi Is̩o̩la into Treasury of Childhood Memories among many others. Yorùbá literary critics, translation experts, and linguists are yet to scrutinize the literary translation techniques in the translated text. …”
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Poverty, Dickens’s Oliver Twist, and J. R. McCulloch by Ayşe Çelikkol

“…As the precursor to the science of economics, political economy concerned some topics that also preoccupied novelists, such as poverty and wealth. Literary criticism in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries has been charting the ways in which the discourses of literature and political economy intersect, despite the Romantic disavowal of their commonalities. …”
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The Ambivalent Representation of the Orient in T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (1935) by Sonia Lamrani

“…Drawing upon postcolonial literary criticism, this paper will show the way Lawrence simultaneously reaffirms and rejects the imperialist and colonialist discourse in his portrayals. …”
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The Philosopher’s Poet: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on Wallace Stevens by Bart Eeckhout

“…The two different angles are investigated precisely because they fall outside mainstream literary criticism on Stevens and help to dramatize several of the difficulties confronted by poets and philosophers seeking to find common ground. …”
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‘The South! something exclaims within me’: Real and Imagined Spaces in Italy and the South in Vernon Lee’s Travel Writing by Leonie Wanitzek

“…Literary criticism on Vernon Lee has so far focused little on either her seven published collections of travel essays or on her intense engaging with space and place in her writing. …”
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Representation of Fictional Characters with Disabilities in Selected Crime Novels of Oͅládèͅjoͅ Òkédìjí by Oͅlálérè Adéyeͅmí

“…      Scholars of Yorùbá literary criticism have not done much in the area of disability studies; therefore, there is a paucity of critical works on the representation of people with disability in Yorùbá novels. …”
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The listening renaissance: a theoretical exploration of audio-based digital narratives in literature by Bhuvaneshwari Palanisamy, Rajasekaran V

“…Through a theoretical exploration drawing from cognitive theory, media studies, and literary criticism, this study argues that the rise of audio literature represents not merely a shift in medium, but a fundamental change to process and interact with narrative content. …”
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How to understand the parables of Jesus. A paradigm shift in parable exegesis by R. Zimmermann

“…Instead, the discussion of a comprehensive genre of “parable” utilises the genre consciousness of the early Christian authors; a genre that can be precisely defined by means of a literary-critical description in terms of the criteria of narrativity, fictionality, relation to reality, metaphor, appeal structure and co-/contextuality. …”
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