The Ethics of Cultural Translation 101: Tinkering With Canons
This third article in the 101 series continues with exploring the ethics related to the power translators have to form literary canons.
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meganmaistre
- Oct 29, 2022
- 6 min
The Controversial Commercialisation of True Crime
This article looks at contemporary fascination with true crime and the controversies surrounding the genre.
Felix Purat
- Oct 25, 2022
- 5 min
Translation And Postcolonial Ireland
Article touches upon certain postcolonial dimensions regarding Irish literature, especially in Irish Gaelic.
Anna Artyushenko
- Oct 23, 2022
- 9 min
Witchcraft in Literature 101: Satire in The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita is a complex philosophical work, incorporating historical, religious and supernatural aspects.
Felix Purat
- Oct 17, 2022
- 7 min
The Ethics of Cultural Translation 101: A Translator’s Boundaries
The second article in this series picks up where individual originality left off and explores its borders: where does a translator stop?
Dino Mušić
- Oct 17, 2022
- 5 min
Theory of Fantasy Literature 102: What About Fairy Tales?
On fairy tales and their constituting a genre separate from fantasy.
Ana Isabel Bugeda Díaz
- Oct 16, 2022
- 8 min
Postmodern Retellings 102: Gillian Cross’s Wolf
Gillian Cross's Wolf (1998) takes a critical stance toward the traditional archetype of the weak and gentle grandmother.
Felix Purat
- Oct 11, 2022
- 6 min
Literary Middlemen: How Dominant Languages Hinder the Literature of Minor Languages
This article details the struggle of Europe's minority language literature in translation, likening it to geopolitics.
Dino Mušić
- Oct 9, 2022
- 5 min
Suspended and Stolen Agency in Fictional Narratives
An overview of character agency and aninsight into how it can be thematized.
Ana Isabel Bugeda Díaz
- Oct 5, 2022
- 9 min
Postmodern Retellings 102: Jeanette Winterson’s The Twelve Dancing Princesses
Jeanette Winterson deconstructs The Twelve Dancing Princesses by using oral storytelling as an alternative form of narration.
Felix Purat
- Oct 3, 2022
- 8 min
The Ethics of Cultural Translation 101: Challenges To Originality
The first article in the Cultural Translation series exploring various ethical challenges in the field of translation.
mmatikashvilim
- Oct 2, 2022
- 8 min
Shame and surveillance in David Egger’s "The Circle"
David Eggers' The Circle transforms the idea of surveillance and it implements it positively through the emotion of shame.
Anna Artyushenko
- Oct 2, 2022
- 6 min
Witchcraft in Literature 101: Folklore Roots in The Viy
This article covers the novella "Viy" by N. Gogol and analyses its representation of witchcraft and supernatural.
Dino Mušić
- Oct 2, 2022
- 5 min
Theory of Fantasy Literature 102: What About Fables?
A brief overview of the history of fables followed by insight in what makes it stand out compared to fantasy.
Ana Isabel Bugeda Díaz
- Sep 27, 2022
- 8 min
Tess of the d’Urbervilles: Thomas Hardy’s Reenactment of the Demeter-Persephone Myth
Reenactment of the Demeter-Persephone myth as perceived by Thomas Hardy
Felix Purat
- Sep 27, 2022
- 6 min
Information Transfer and “Otherness”
Information transfer is used to bring cultural "otherness" into other languages via translation. But how much "otherness" is enough?
juliagan6
- Sep 26, 2022
- 5 min
Coleridge on Reading, and Reading Coleridge Himself
The Romantic poet S. T. Coleridge describes different types of readers, which in turn describe his own reading habits.
Dino Mušić
- Sep 25, 2022
- 6 min
"A Song of Ice and Fire", "Harry Potter" and the Appeal of an Undead Villain
With ASOIAF and HP as examples, this article will discuss how each of them construct their undead villains and what makes them so appealing.
Nathan Hepp
- Sep 25, 2022
- 5 min
The Settings of The Epic Film
This is the second article in the Film Genre 101 series, which focuses on the Epic Film Genre
Felix Purat
- Sep 19, 2022
- 7 min
The Pitfalls of Translating Poetry
This article reflects upon the several key pitfalls surrounding the literary translation of poetry.
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