Literary Output Research Articles

“I feel as lonely as a wreck at sea”: Reviewing Fernando Pessoa’s Youth Literary Companion, Charles Robert Anon

When initiating the journey to explore Fernando Pessoa’s (1888-1935) literary world, one rapidly becomes conscious of the vast literary output developed by the author. With means of understanding his whole literary universe, it must be acknowledged that Pessoa was bilingual, and that English, and Portuguese language cohabited in his literary universe. One is struck by astonishment when discovering that there are in fact so many English-writing literary characters, so many texts, anthologies, fragments, and literary projects in English. This study revises Pessoa’s pre-heteronymic process and the creation of English literary characters who are introduced into a dialogical chain, which later becomes a more serious literary depersonalisation process in his adulthood. By revising Pessoa’s youth companion Charles Robert Anon, this study intends to outline the Portuguese authors literary process and the starting point and evolution of what later became his most exceptional concept: the heteronyms. Through his character and the texts he signed, Anon represents young Pessoa’s “intellectual anxieties and existential concerns of a young intellectual entering adulthood” (Zenith in Pessoa 2001: 7). This study sustains that the edition, publication, translation, and critical analysis of the totality of Anon’s literary production is an important element to shed light in the understanding of Pessoa’s drama-in-people and adult writings.

Obraz regionu w opowiadaniach gwarowych Klemensa Frenszkowskiego. Wybrane zagadnienia

The aim of this article is to restore to public memory the literary output of Klemens Frenszkowski as the author of stories in the Warmian dialect prepared for publication. The analytical material consists of 24 stories of various genre provenance, the content of which concerns the everyday life of Warmians at the threshold of the 20th century. Problematisation distinguished three scopes. The social and family context involves the reconstruction of the author's biography on the basis of historical sources and literary texts. The cultural context concerns the realities of everyday life, fragments of customs and beliefs practised by the Warmian characters. The political-military context concerns the realities of public life (military service and politics).

SURSULAPITSCHI AND THE JOURNEY A CONTRIBUTION TO RESEARCH ON CHILDRENS LITERATURE IN HUNGARY

In the following brief reflection, I present some of the characteristics of current and recent Hungarian initiatives in childrens literature, based on the institutional framework and internal literary dynamics. The aim is to give the reader a realistic picture of the current state of research in contemporary Hungarian childrens literature. The paper focuses on the opportunities and challenges facing active and prospective researchers in childrens literature. The text describes the impact of the political and literary regime change on the institutional system and research practices in childrens literature; considers the reasons for counterproductive literary historical approaches, discusses the lack of methods of childrens book criticism and psychology, and proposes some modest methodological suggestion for textual analysis. Despite all the difficulties, for example the legacy of the literary history and the the poorer literary output of the nineties, childrens literature research in Hungary is moving in the right direction. So in this text particular attention is paid to the remarkable initiatives, projects and texts in childrens literature especially of the last 15 years.

Su Shi: A Paragon of Interreligious Harmony in Song Dynasty China

This paper explores the life and works of Su Shi, a prominent intellectual and statesman during China’s Song Dynasty, as a champion of interreligious harmony. We examine how Su Shi’s vast philosophical and literary output demonstrates his deep engagement with Confucian ethics, Buddhist compassion, and Daoist tranquility. By analyzing his poems, essays, and other writings, we explore how Su Shi navigated these diverse traditions, finding common ground and promoting mutual understanding. This analysis highlights Su Shi’s ability to bridge religious and philosophical divides, offering a valuable perspective for contemporary discussions on interfaith dialogue and peaceful coexistence.

Exploring Ernest Hemingway’s Impact on the Legacy of American Short Fiction

This paper presents a contemplative perspective on the literary style and influence of Ernest Hemingway, renowned for his literary accomplishments in his short stories, novels, nonfiction essays, journalism, and drama. Emphasizing the interplay between Hemingway’s life and his work, this study delves into the writer’s substantial impact, particularly on the short story, despite his better-known association with the novel. It scrutinizes the ethical complexities and moral relativism inherent in Hemingway’s character depiction and also shows the profound influence of World War I on Hemingway’s literary output, shedding light on its resonance within his short stories and books. Moreover, it investigates Hemingway’s insatiable thirst for sociocultural insights, a trait leaving indelible imprints across much of his body of work.

Evocations of Nekrasov’s trench prose in Elena Rzhevskaya’s novellas

The article examines the unique characteristics of E. Rzhevskaya’s prose. In 1941–1945, Rzhevskaya was an army interpreter from German. In her analysis of Rzhevskaya’s biography and literary output, S. Perevalova shows the assimilation of the writer’s wartime experience in her oeuvre, which simultaneously follows the patterns of ‘lieutenant prose,’ typified by novellas of V. Nekrasov, Y. Bondarev and other contemporaries of Rzhevskaya’s, and the tradition of Russian classical writers of the 19th c. and the Silver Age. The first work of ‘lieutenant prose’ that invokes the classical tradition was V. Nekrasov’s In the Trenches of Stalingrad [V okopakh Stalingrada], a novella strongly defined by humanism and ties to classical Russian war prose. The author names Nekrasov as well as Lermontov and Blok as influences on Rzhevskaya’s creative method, her affinity with the two poets made stronger by their translations of German poetry which earned the status of classics. Thanks to her interest in Blok and Lermontov, a writer Rzhevskaya became acquainted with world culture, where German literature has long been prominently represented.

The Crusading Past and the Israeli Present: Between History and Autobiography in the Work of Igael Tumarkin

ABSTRACT: The "Zionist-Crusader analogy" is a recurring trope in Israeli politics and society. The present article focuses on an overlooked aspect of this analogy, the visual and artistic expression of supposed similarity and distinction between the medieval Latin kingdom of Jerusalem (1099–1291) and the State of Israel. We examine the visual and literary output of renowned Israeli artist Igael Tumarkin (1933–2021) whose crusades-related art embodies the tensions between past and present, east and west, and personal and collective memory. An in-depth study of a few of Tumarkin's artworks and writings reveals the artist's unique viewpoint on the "Zionist-Crusader" historiographical framework. These works, it is argued, inhabit two main interpretive frames, which are intricately connected. The first reflects, though not always consistently, the extent to which contemporary Israel "belongs" within the greater Levantine context; the second is the artist's reflection on his own identity as a Jew born in Germany and an Israeli citizen, who often perceives himself as an outsider navigating between different cultural iconographies and identities.

Disaster, Transgenerational Endurance and Duration in Béké Writing

This article interrogates the preoccupation with transgenerational endurance and duration apparent in béké representations of “natural” disaster. It begins with a brief overview of the earliest literary texts to emerge from the French Caribbean islands: Auguste Prévost de Sansac de Traversay’s Les Amours de Zémédare et Carina, et description de l’île de la Martinique (1806), and Jules Levilloux’s Les Créoles ou la vie aux Antilles (1835)—both of which feature catastrophes that claim the lives of plantation owners and pose a threat to their daughters, the bearers of béké culture. I then consider texts by béké women who lived in Martinique at the time of Mount Pelée’s eruption in 1902, an unprecedented disaster which eradicated almost half of the island’s white population: Clémence Cassius de Linval’s Cœurs Martiniquais (1919) and Élodie Dujon-Jourdain’s Le Sablier renversé (1912). In doing so, I trace a lineage of male and female béké authors who lament white losses in the aftermath of “natural” disaster and remain anxiously preoccupied with the caste’s longevity. Such an approach reveals how white Creoles have, across generations, taken to writing to promote, protect and preserve their culture. Anxieties around the need to preserve patriarchal order, family bloodlines, names and language consistently resurface in this intergenerational literary output which spans more than a century. As we shall see, some of these temporal concerns converge with Édouard Glissant’s observations on time and memory in the French Antilles, specifically his sedimentary poetics of duration.

Environmental Accounting and Sustainability: Bibliometric Analysis and Documentary Review of Scientific Production, Period 2015-2024

The purpose was to describe global scientific and literary outputs, on different aspects around environmental accounting (EA) and sustainability in environmental, business and policy domains, between 2015 and 2024. This was achieved through a quantitative characterization of publications. The methodology used took as referent aspects for the analysis: focus, units, topics, country, authorship, citations and journals, these a descriptive and reflexive documentary study of the scientific literature, based on the collection of papers in Scopus and the use of VOSviewer. The materials were selected according to various criteria, including keywords such as "environmental accounting" and "sustainability", limited to fields such as: business, management and accounting, during the period from 2015 to 2024. The result included the identification of 54 texts, with the years with the highest number of publications being 2015 with 25.8% and 2018 with 19.7% of the total number of documents. Regarding the approaches, a predominant orientation towards the qualitative paradigm was observed, with 70%, compared to the quantitative one, with 32%. The most common types were exploratory (65%), descriptive (20%) and correlational (3%). As for the units, the majority focused on inquiries in companies with 52%, divided between large companies (57%) and MSMEs (11%). In turn, the sectors most frequently observed were tertiary (48%), followed by secondary (34%) and primary (2%). The origin of most of the studies was the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Italy. Finally, the limitations found were mainly related to the methodological approach, the inclusion of only one database, which could have excluded relevant studies not indexed in this one.

Rebekah Hyneman’s The Black Izba: The Moscovite Jews and the Tzar’s Jewish Doctor’s Triumph over an Anti-Semitic Plot

ABSTRACT Rebekah Hyneman, born in Pennsylvania in 1816, played a significant role in documenting Jewish existence. Beyond her unique historical novel, The Black Izba: A Tale of Ancient Russia,1 serialized in 1855 in The Masonic Mirror and Keystone, she made a noteworthy contribution through her extensive oeuvre. Raised by a Jewish-German father and a Christian mother, Hyneman converted to Judaism in 1845. Despite her multifaceted literary output, her substantial contributions have been overlooked. This paper seeks to rectify the historical neglect surrounding Hyneman's work by shining a light on her novel, The Black Izba. This novel stands out as a rare piece by a nineteenth-century Jewish female writer. It offers a unique perspective on Jewish women, exploring a female literary culture documenting its own story, its relationship with prevailing Christian norms, and striving to uphold religious and cultural values in restrictive contexts. Through an examination of Hyneman's work, the paper underscores her portrayal of Jewish women and their role in preserving their identity. Hyneman's poetry and prose extend beyond mere artistic expression; they harbor political and social agendas. She believed that Christians' unfamiliarity with Jewish traditions fostered alienation. Through her writings, Hyneman endeavors to bridge this gap, emphasizing mutual recognition.

Multiple transitions in the works of Susan Caperna Lloyd

This article aims to analyse Susan Caperna Lloyd's literary output, emphasizing the writer's multiple transitions. No Pictures in My Grave, her 1992 travel memoir, followed by The Crucifixion of Lucy Reyes (2017) and Dance It Up (2023) – both currently in manuscript form – will serve as the primary objects of investigation. As will be shown, the exploration of her cultural roots as an American of Italian origin is just the starting point for a more complex quest, which leads her to uncover powerful feminine icons and ancestral mothers, who provide her with alternative models of femininity. In her latest work, Caperna Lloyd also delves deeper into the intricate transition between life and death, discovering that these states are not mutually exclusive but rather complementary.

A Study on the Influence of Geographic Differences in China on Ancient Chinese Literary Creation in the Context of Deep Learning

Abstract In recent years, the examination of literary creation through the lens of the natural geographic environment has emerged as a focal point in literary studies. This study designates China’s geographic environment as the independent variable and ancient Chinese literary creation as the dependent variable. We employ Pearson’s correlation coefficient to assess the appropriateness of the selected variables. Following this, a linear regression model is constructed using the least squares method to explore the relationship between geographic and environmental differences and ancient literary creation. The findings demonstrate significant positive correlations between the characteristics of topography, climate, and soil and the thematic content of ancient Chinese literature, with significance levels below 0.05. Specifically, the Pearson correlation coefficients are 0.509 for topographic features, 0.366 for climatic features, and 0.418 for soil features. Furthermore, the overall regression model exhibits an adjusted R² value of 0.235 and an F-value of 80.759. This research delineates the regional attributes that impact literary creation, thereby enhancing our understanding of the interplay between geography and literary output in ancient China.

Konstruowanie siebie w opowieści – o historii i tożsamości w "Domu kata" Andrei Tompy

The main purpose of the article is to present the literary output of Andrea Tompa, using her debut collection entitled 'Dom kata' as an example. In her work, the Hungarian writer uses her creative potential connected with the experiences of growing up in a discriminated national minority in Romania in the 1980s. In the paper, I demonstrate how the history of the area and biography intertwine in the literary transformation of experience in a quasi‑autobiographical story about entering adulthood. In Andrea Tompa’s work, one can see how the geo‑cultural experience has an impact on both the way the story is constructed and the narrative strategies applied, as well as its influence on the reception of the work among readers. The trauma of the regime and exclusion associated with Romania in the second half of the 20th century is conveyed by means of a hybrid form and fragmented narratives. This unique combination that makes up the book of the Hungarian writer provides an inspiring material for literary research, both from the perspective of memory studies and the poetics of experience. As for the way of constructing the story, which is hard to categorize according to strict genre classifications, it only enlivens the reception.

Élise Hugueny-Léger, Projections de soi. Identités et images en mouvement dans l'autofiction

Playing on the double meaning of the word projection, this book explores the multiple relationships between the French literary genre of autofiction and the moving image. Élise Hugueny-Léger, a researcher of contemporary French literature and a specialist of the work of Annie Ernaux, departs from the idea that autofictional writing is a form of psychological projection, wherein a self-image is being cast onto the page. In a more literal sense, the word projection refers to the cinematic technique of showing moving images on a screen. Several francophone authors known for their autofiction have also been involved in audiovisual productions, but earlier criticism has largely limited itself to studying their literary output. By addressing this rich and complex subject matter, Hugueny-Léger makes a valuable and original contribution to the field of francophone life-writing studies.

Malay Poetry Socialization For The Nation's Moral Education

This study method seeks to understand more about the excellent moral teachings in traditional Malay poetry. This study was carried out using a moral perspective and a qualitative approach that presents and describes data objectively. The data source for this study is classical Malay poetry, which presents moral ideas that are considered to be guidance for future generations of Indonesians despite the development of time and modern living. The document approach was used to collect data in this study. The results of this study show that syair (poetry), as an old literary output, expresses high values and recommendations that have a profound connection to society. Poetry expresses the author's feelings, thoughts, or personal experiences via rhyming and rhythmic stanzas. Moral education can be instilled through the means of Malay classical poetry education. The two poems discussed in this study reflect teachings based on morality about how people must live well in order to become good individuals and how they must avoid bad behavior by imbibing and implementing moral values and teachings that are good and acceptable to society. Educators can use classical Malay poetry to socialize the values of moral education on the poems (syair) as a guiding reference for the lives of the younger generation in today's modern era

Playful Distance: On the Relationship between Fossils and Time in Eduard Mörike’s “Göttliche Reminiscenz”

The nineteenth-century author Eduard Mörike is difficult to pin down. In some previous characterizations, Mörike has appeared as a provincial poet, one whose conversational tone, folksy compositions, and tendency towards fantasy lend him an unserious quality. While modern scholarship has shifted to debating the level of his political involvement and his status as a postclassical or proto-modern author, one characteristic stands out among the majority of descriptions: the playful quality of his works and the characters within them. Dreams, memory, encounters with art, idle pastimes—all common topoi in Mörike’s literary output—represent playful events in which varied spatiotemporal relationships emerge, especially in the face of potentially traumatic encounters with death, sickness, or the sublime. Mörike’s handling of the fossil in “Göttliche Reminiscenz” involves such an encounter. In the nineteenth century, fossils often set the stage for a traumatic encounter with vast expanses of non-human time. Mörike’s playful treatment of the subject offers a productive approach to the sublime that moves beyond a simple negation of its traumatic nature. In Mörike’s poem, the fossil exists as both a sublime thought figure and an intimate lyrical object, offering another way to conceptualize non-human experience.

The Poetry of Syed Ameeruddin: A Thematic Appraisal

Syed Ameeruddin, born on 5th December 1942 at Guntakal-A.P. (India) took his agonal last breath on November 28, 2020 in Chennai of Tamil Nadu. As a poet, critic, New College Professor and Founder of the International Poet’s Academy he earned a distinguished place among Indian English Writers of today by dint of his unfailing hard work, compositions and oeuvres. His magnum opus— Visions of Deliverance with epical grandeur explores the infinite reality in its multifarious existential dimensions ranging from mundane and temporal to the mesmerizing eternal lands of everlasting beauty signifying what in Indian lexicon is termed as Sat-Cit-Ananda— Existence, Consciousness and Bliss. The book has 30 lively poems bright like gems beaded in a string. All the poems move in a perpetual movement to create emotion, feelings of auspicious joy as at the birth of a biological being and his/her upbringing. His humanitarian concerns, philosophical backdrops, metaphysical preoccupations together solve/ resolve the chaotic realities and sparkles of life with illuminating zest and determination in a diction which applies simplicity, directness, lucidity and a lilting mode. Accordingly, he emerges as a poet with multiple hues magical and vibrant embracing verbal ecstasy, visual beauty and imagistic delicacy. Imagery and symbolism that are richly present in abundance in Ameeruddin’s poetry which has been discussed in this paper at length with appropriate citations from the text. What is more enticing to his poetry is the discovery of hitherto unfathomed secret spheres of darkness pertaining to culture, heritage and civilization. As an entertainer in poetry, he attempts to explore broader ranges of human thoughts, lived experiences, mundane, cosmic and apocalyptic visions to entertain; simultaneously to transport his discerning readers into the world of his noble creation. The subjective elements delicately connect to the events/activities of his own times. As a master craftman the poet brilliantly illustrates in his long poem the subjective imagery of his Grandson which brings to fore surrealistic and long-winded phrases. A study of all salient features such as—the artistic representation of the theme, musical texture, use of native tongue, poetic mission, prophetic utterances and lyrical grandeur has tersely been done to focus on Ameeruddin’s life and the whole gamut of his literary output with particular reference to Visions of Deliverance.

The Missing Corpse in Contemporary Iraqi Fiction: Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad and Muhsin Al-Ramli’s Daughter of the Tigris

ABSTRACT This essay focuses on the trope of the missing corpse in two contemporary Iraqi novels: Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013) and Muhsin al-Ramli’s Daughter of the Tigris (2019). Drawing mainly on critical work on the corpse and death studies as well as critical ideas on relics and hauntology the essay asks: What place does the missing corpse occupy in a body of contemporary literary outputs that have witnessed a significant engagement with the materiality of the dead body? How is the narrative of the absent corpse structured and framed? How is it experienced and accounted for? What forms and shapes replace the absent body? The essay argues that the missing corpse takes on an “absent presence” that haunts the narrative while the dead body’s very disappearance is compensated for through relics, surrogates, replacements, and repetitions. In conclusion, the essay contends that this absent presence further signals a haunted futurity that is entangled in Iraq’s history of violence but which, nonetheless, offers the potential for a radically new and democratic vision for the country’s future.

Mykola Rudenko’s poetry and prose as a platform for popularizing the author’s alternative hypothesis of the Universe

The results of literary research of members of Sumy Branch of Scientific Society named after Serhiy Podolyns’kyy are presented, which reveal the uniqueness of literary output of outstanding Ukrainian writer Mykola Rudenko. His literary legacy is unique because the writer used it as a popularization platform of his scientific hypotheses, and ideas; it saturates textual essence of his works with scientific terminology, formulas, mathematical, physical calculations; forms reader’s scientific worldview and allows wide readership to participate in writer’s scientific discoveries. The purpose of study is to show how scientific hypothesis of Mykola Rudenko’s Monadic world structure was formed and how it was reflected in his works. Research used general scientific (analysis, synthesis, comparison) and literary methods (systemic approach, hermeneutic, etc.). The works of I. Voloshyn, H. Vivat, P. Grigorenko, B. Pastukh, T. Trofymenko, O. Nezhivy, V. Shevchuk allow to comprehensively comprehend the legacy of Mykola Rudenko. A detailed analysis of works of M. Rudenko allows us to conclude: 1) writer used his literary works as a platform to popularize his scientific research; 2) M. Rudenko managed to create whole layer of "scientific" poetry and prose; 3) one should not consider his poetry and prose as an appendix to "Energy of Progress" – they are autonomous works, especially lyrics.

The Effect of Daffodil Flowers on William Wordsworth’s Mood

The study highlights that nature has a significant impact on romantic poets’ moods. The significance of the study displays that nature plays a big role in changing the mood of some English romantic poets from pessimistic to optimistic. The daffodils flowers can shift a person’s gloomy condition into an optimistic one. The study shows how William Wordsworth’s poem Daffodils reflects his love of nature and how daffodils flowers were able to change his depressing condition into an optimistic one. The study used a descriptive and analytical methodology. The study concludes that nature could change the poets’ attitudes from a pessimistic one to an optimistic one, especially the daffodils flowers. Also, nature has an impact on both their literary output and their attitudes, sentiments, and way of life. Romantic writers cherished nature because it could affect their feelings and generate beautiful poetry. A person’s appreciation of nature acts as a mirror to reflect their thoughts, sentiments, and traditions, as well as their outlook on life.