Re-performing African Literature: A Review of Owonibi’s Translation of three Yoruba Literary works into English – Chief Gaa, Delusion of Grandeur and The Tight Game by Titilope Oluwaseun Oriola

“… Re-performance, the way works of arts are translated into another language with distinct rules and principles yet preserving the aesthetics and values of the original texts, is a major aesthetic resource used by writers to establish their perspectives on translation. …”
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Shall we dance? Choreographing hospitality as key to interpersonal transformation by G.W. Marchinkowski

“…Finally, the article formulates principles for the spiritual practice of hospitality for ordinary people in everyday life, by considering the contributions of contemporary spiritual writers, Barbara Brown Taylor and Christine Pohl. …”
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Op soek na'n Mediabestel vir Suid·Afrika by Arnold de Beer

“…Prof Keyan Tomaselli, Director of the Cultural Studies Unit at the University of Natal (Durban), is without doubt one of most prolific writers in the field of South African media and communication studies. …”
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Da literatura para a infância à literatura de fronteira: Agustín Fernández Paz e Lygia Bojunga by Blanca-Ana Roig Rechou

“…The biographical features of the two writers, according to a continuous game of distances and mainly of approaches, are addressed, as well as a wide range of thematicformal topics that embody the literary project of both, with particular emphasis on the comment of Fernandez Paz, less well known in Brazil than Bojunga. …”
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The Last and Latest Dickens by Clotilde De Stasio

“…Case (1989)—reveals a change of perspective, linked to recent trends in criticism and to contemporary topicality. While the Italian writers’ approach was metafictional and parodic, à la Lodge, Pearl’s approach is thematic and biographical, and highly sensational. …”
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Theories of the End of the Novel by Barış Mete

“…Although all those pessimistic prognostications have failed to predict the future of the novel truly, it is essential to comprehend why a number of writers and literary theorists participated in the discussions.…”
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A Literary Turn in African Studies by Kelvin Acheampong

“…The ideas of generations and turns in literary studies in particular, and African Studies in general, are complicated by the overlapping ideological dispositions of the writers.  …”
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Birmingham’s Women Poets: Aestheticism and the Daughters of Industry by Marion Thain

“…Yet it is seldom recognised that the aesthetic London lifestyle of these writers was in key instances only made possible by family fortunes amassed through the industrial expansion of Birmingham and its surrounding conurbation. …”
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Du baromètre au piolet, cent cinquante ans de visions britanniques de la montagne by Michel Tailland

“…Throughout the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries, daring British travellers kept exploring and conquering mountain ranges up to then mostly "terra incognita Many of them, from William Brockedon, Edward Whymper, John Auldjo or Albert Smith not only wrote about them but also sketched or painted their landscapes thanks to their multi-faceted talents as writers, painters or engravers. This paper aims at analyzing the changes in the different points of view of a few generations of these artist/travellers who left an everlasting influence on contemporary visions of mountains. …”
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The critique of Gikuyu religion and culture in S.N. Ngubiah's A Curse from God by F. Hale

“…In contrast to the nostalgic defensiveness of many Kenyan and other post-colonial African writers, perhaps most notably Ngugi wa Thiong’o, the Gikuyu novelist S.N. …”
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Une amnistie sans pardon : Ezra Pound en France. Premiers passages et passeurs by Jean Christophe Contini

“…Often associated with Céline because of his anti-Semitism and his conduct during World War II, Ezra Pound (1885-1972) and his Cantos were discovered in France thanks to the extensive translations carried out by Denis Roche and the publication of a double issue of Cahier de l’Herne edited by Dominique de Roux and Michel Beaujour, who also invited the “Great Pan” to Paris in 1965 on the occasion of his 80th anniversary, more than forty years after his last visit to this city.However, one often overlooks the fact that this French reception (rendered problematic by a French, rather than American, history of nationalism, fascism and anti-Semitism) began with translations and comments made as early as the mid-1950s by several French poets and writers: Alain Bosquet, Michel Mohrt, Michel Butor and René Laubiès, who first translated and published a selection of Pound’s Cantos and poems in 1958.…”
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Herkules Poirot i marny kryminał. Na marginesie powieści Agathy Christie „Morderstwo w Orient Expressie” (1934) by Anna Gemra

“…Van Dine and Ronald Knox) intended for writers meaning to craft a good crime story. In Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie reached for many solutions well known to readers from ‘poor crime stories,’ such as the appearance of the murderer, basing the investigation on hunches instead of deduction, introducing more than one villain, etc. …”
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‘As Though It Were A Sacred Relic’: The Troubled Holocaust Poetry of Julian Tuwim by Myer Siemiatycki

“…The Polish-Jewish poet Julian Tuwim (1894–1953) was among the most widely read – and denounced! – writers of interwar Poland. Described as ‘a virtuoso of language’ in his beloved Polish mother tongue, Tuwim’s literary range was remarkable and varied. …”
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La transmission de la mémoire dans les romans de Marie-Claire Blais by Eva Pich-Ponce

“…Mary-Claire Blais is one of the most important writers in Quebec literature. In Le Sourd dans la ville (1979), Visions d’Anna (1982) and Soifs (1995), an important number of voices are juxtaposed in order to highlight the dramas of the XXth century. …”
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A Corpus Based Analysis of Sympathy in Language: Constructed Victimhood in Fiction by Azka Khan

“…The study suggests further exploration into the phenomenon to understand whether the identified discursive techniques used for portraying victim characters are unique to Pakistani anglophone literature or it is used by English fiction writers in general. This research opens new avenues for future studies to understand the language of victimhood in larger corpora.…”
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Издательство “Всемирная литература” как первая советская литературная институция: история в документах... by Marina Arias-Vikhil’

“…As an institutional association of writers, scientists, translators and editors, the publishing house developed the principles of its existence in accordance with the complex socio-political and economic situation of the first years of revolutionary transformations in the country. …”
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Enta ra norma común de l’aragonés escrito: una endrezera plena de barzals by Francho Nagore Laín

“…XXI, especially since 2010 until now, have not only stopped it, but have caused a setback and even a small chaos, which the writers try to avoid despite the adversities and the brambles that are found along the way.…”
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Les enjeux du végétal dans une ville du « Sud »  by Mustapha El Hannani, Aude Nuscia Taïbi, Naïma Brabra, Sigrid Giffon

“…In the iconography and descriptions of writers and travellers, Marrakesh is indissociable from its palm groves and plants which confer a strong identity to a landscape the city has promoted for tourism. …”
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‘Our precious quand même’: French in the Letters of Henry James by Daniel Karlin

“…Henry James travelled extensively in France, lived there for months at a time, and was personally acquainted with many leading French writers; he loved and admired the French novel, the French theatre, and the French critical faculty, not to mention ‘the genius of the French language’. …”
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DEVELOPMENT OF AN IMPROVED DATABASE FOR YORUBA HANDWRITTEN CHARACTER by OLUWASHINA O. OYENIRAN, JOSHUA O. OYENIYI, LAWRENCE O. OMOTOSHO, IBRAHIM K. OGUNDOYIN

“…The developed database contains a total of 12,600 characters being made up of 70 classes from a total number of 200 writers, in which 80 % (10,500) is regarded as the training and validation dataset while the remaining 20 % (2,100) is regarded as testing dataset. …”
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