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Social evolution and individual ideology in the background of Tarashankar's novels

This article critically examines the interplay between shifting social paradigms and the personal ideological evolution of Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, one of the most significant figures in post-Rabindranath Bengali fiction. The study categorizes Tarasankar literary journey into two distinct phases — pre-independence and...

There is no Analogy in History: On the Use of Myth in Early Hebrew Holocaust Fiction

This paper explores how classical myth served as a narrative tool in two Holocaust-themed short stories by Aharon Appelfeld and Michal Govrin, allowing the writers to grapple with the unrepresentable horror of the Shoah. Examining Aharon Appelfeld’s Odyssean reference in the short story ‘Bertha’ and Michal Govrin’s Aes...

The Yuletide Story Genre in the Works of the Komi Writer M.N. Lebedev

This study aims to fill gaps in the study of M.N. Lebedev’s pre-revolutionary literary legacy. The material used is little-known works by the writer, dating back to his early creative period: the “scary” the Yuletide story “Ivan the Naked” (1900) and “At Christmastide” (1911). The research problem is the specific plot...

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Tracing Sehnsucht: Longing for the "Hidden Country"

"This thesis will argue that Lewis employs a consistent set of literary themes and biblical echoes to articulate longing throughout his career, and that his early non-Christian, and often anti-Christian, poetry, such as Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics (1919) and Dymer (1926), plays a formative role in shaping his...

The Poetics of Ambitence in Vasil Bykov’s novel “The Trap”

The article examines in its own way a unique phenomenon of modern culture — the work of the Belarusian writer Vasil Bykov (1924–2003), whose work has become an integral part of modern Russian literature. Using the example of one of the writer’s early military novels, “The Trap” (1964), an important component of Bykov’s...