Mortality, Heroic Image and Identity in Yeats's 'At the Hawk's Well'
O lamentable shadows, Obscurity of strife! I choose a pleasant life Among indolent meadows; Wisdom must live a bitter life. ―Yeats, ‘At...
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Ana Isabel Bugeda Díaz
- Mar 3
- 9 min
Existentialism on Contemporary Literature 101: Carmen Laforet’s Nada and the Emptiness of Experience
Carmen Laforet’s Nada (Nothing) is a romance and a coming-of-age story whose nucleus is the scenario left by the Spanish civil war.
Felix Purat
- Jan 29
- 7 min
Translation as Anesthesia: Karl May In The 21st Century
This article delves into the at-times censorious nature of translation and uses Karl May's Winnetou trilogy as an example.
Felix Purat
- Jan 23
- 6 min
The Ethics of Cultural Translation 101: Translating Geography
This articles goes into the nature of geography in literary translation.
Melis Güven
- Aug 18, 2022
- 5 min
Literary Critical Theories 101: Analysis of New Criticism
The New Critical efforts to focus on the literary work as the primary source of evidence for interpreting it emphasizes "the text itself."
Maialen De Carlos
- Jun 13, 2022
- 4 min
The Beginning of the American Short Story: Edgar Allan Poe
In this first article I will explain the beginnings of short stories and about Edgar Allan Poe, the one who shaped this genre.
Dino Mušić
- Jun 12, 2022
- 6 min
Borges' "The Circular Ruins" and Ruinous Enchantment
Through the analysis of Borges' short story, the article seeks to uncover the significance of ruins from a contemporary viewpoint.
Simone Carlesso
- Mar 6, 2022
- 7 min
The "Self and the Other" in the Tale "William Wilson", by Edgar Allan Poe
Figure 1: RACKHAM, A. (1935). William Wilson [Illustration]. Since ancient times, the phenomenon of the double - a psychic phenomenon in...
Elsa Abdallah
- Feb 20, 2022
- 5 min
Fairy Tales 101: The Origins of Fairy Tales
Foreword Fairy Tales 101 articles discuss a hidden aspect of apparently innocent tales with happy endings. The stories tackled in this...
Pourandokht Mazaheri
- Jan 7, 2022
- 6 min
Irish Literature 101: Post-Romantic Literature and the Great Famine
FOREWORD Irish Literature 101 is a fascinating and complete guide through the significant historical events that shaped Irish culture and...
Chelsea Woods
- Oct 26, 2021
- 7 min
Modernism: Sexuality in 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H Lawrence centers upon Connie Chatterley, whose marriage to paralyzed Clifford is driven by intellectual...
Loreleï Verlhac
- Oct 16, 2021
- 11 min
Enheduanna and the Myths Around the Creation
The Sumerian myths enable us to understand better how the creation of the world was imagined at the time in the Ancient Near East....
ceemrecelik
- Aug 29, 2021
- 6 min
Literary Genres: Lyric Poetry
The subject of "Lyric Poetry", which is considered as the continuation of the previous article called "Literary Genres: The Epic...
francescaarossa
- Aug 3, 2021
- 4 min
"One, none, and a hundred thousand" - Who Are We?
Magritte, R. (1953). Golconda. (1) How does literature define our perception of the world and represent our identity as readers? One,...
francescaarossa
- Jul 15, 2021
- 4 min
“Narcissus and Goldmund”- Two Elements within an Individual
Klee, P. (1923). Landscape with yellow birds. Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) was a prominent German-Swiss author and poet active in the '900....
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