World Literature and Mythology: Guarantees of Freedom of Man and Nation in Sigitas Geda’s Poetry by Karolina Bagdonė

“…The Lithuanian poet adopted and applied it in his work by creating a mythological foundation as a unifying universal, a synthesis of Lithuanian and various national cultures. …”
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“This Land Is Your Land”: A Note on America as a Nation of “Varied Carols” by Heinrich Detering

“…The present article follow the line from Whitman’s poetry of songs to 20th century American song poetry, by the way of the example of Woody Guthrie’s anthem ‘This Land Is Your Land’ and its transformative receptions in Bob Dylan’s and Bruce Springsteen’s adaptations (in contrast to the way in which European national anthems conceive the nation-as-territory). …”
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Yoruba Festival and the Dramatist: Satire as Spine in Soyinka’s A Dance of the Forests by Olusegun i Olu-Osayomi

“…By vigorously exploiting African (Yoruba) experience, festival motif, and satiric modes, in a manner relevant to the moral development of his world, it will be seen that Soyinka, succeeds in laying the foundation for a truly Nigerian national literature and it is, in fact, on this that his strengths as a satirist playwright lie …”
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