Comparative Literature Studies Research Articles

Divine Insights: Religious Influences in Albanian Literature

This paper aims to investigate the profound influences of Biblical and Koranic discourse on Albanian literature during a specific period, with a focus on the principal authors. The study adopts on applied research approach, employing textual analysis and comparative literary studies to examine the integration of oriental and occidental themes, motifs and conceptions in Albanian literature. By delving into the structural elements and elements of discourse influenced by codified beliefs, the research explores religious interplay within the literature.Through a thorough analysis of literary works, this study reveals that the Bible and Koran hold significant literary importance, with numerous authors drawing inspiration from these sacred texts. The research findings demonstrate the extensive utilization of motifs, literary figures, stylistic elements, events and characters from the Bible and the Koran in Albanian literature. Holy Scripture, embodying a noble and holy spirit, serves as inexhaustible source of artistic inspiration, vitality and creativity for prominent authors. Notably, the research highlights the prominence of Biblical events that portray the struggle for freedom, which have found expression in Albanian literature. This exploration sheds light on enduring influence of the Bible and the Koran on the cultural fabric of Albanian society.Based on the research findings, this study concludes that the integration of Biblical and Koranic discourse in Albanian literature reflects the deep-rooted Islamic and Christian culture within the Albanian psyche. The research underscores the significance of these sacred texts as sources of artistic inspiration and creativity, shaping the cultural tradition and civilization of Albanians. By uncovering the profound interplay between religion and literature, this study contributes to a deeper understanding of the cultural and religious dynamics within Albanian literary works.

Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Literature

The purpose of this paper is to comparatively study the differences and commonalities between Chinese literature and Western literature. First of all, the characteristics of the two are compared from three aspects, namely, presentation methods, thematic contents and literary forms. Chinese literature focuses on mood, ambiguity, and emphasizes the natural flow of emotions; while Western literature attaches importance to structure, logic, and pursues innovation in form. In terms of thematic content, Chinese literature tends to express personal emotions and expresses the harmony between human beings and nature and society; while Western literature focuses on the conflict between individuals and society and emphasizes freedom, equality and human rights. In terms of literary forms, Chinese literature coexists in various forms such as poetry, prose and novels, while Western literature takes novels, dramas and poems as its main forms. Secondly, this study explores the reasons for the differences between the two in terms of cultural background, writers' creative concepts and readers' acceptance. Chinese literature is deeply influenced by traditional cultural ideas such as Confucianism and Taoism, emphasizing moral education and philosophy of life; while Western literature is influenced by ancient Greek and Roman myths as well as religious beliefs such as Christianity, focusing on the inner world of man and exploring human nature. In terms of writers' creative concepts, Chinese writers tend to focus on social harmony from the perspective of traditional morality and ethics, while Western writers advocate the liberation of individuality and the pursuit of the realization of personal values. In terms of readers' acceptance, Chinese literature focuses on aesthetic experience and emotional resonance, while Western literature pays more attention to logical reasoning and thinking. The comparative study of Chinese literature and Western literature can help us better understand the diversity of world literature and enrich our concepts of literary aesthetics and creation. At the same time, by learning from the excellent achievements of Western literature, we can promote the innovation and development of Chinese literature.

Reescribir para descodificar: traducción radicante en <i>El libro de Tamar</i> de Tamara Kamenszain y <i>Tratado de arqueología peruana</i> de Roberto Zariquiey

The purpose of this article is to unveil the gesture of rewriting as an exercise of sign translation, which is presented as one of the territories of radicant writing in the works El libro de Tamar by Tamara Kamenszain and Tratado de arqueología peruana by Roberto Zariquiey. For this purpose, it has been decided to guide the research through a comparative literary study of the corpus, which is achieved based on the definition offered by Nicolas Bourriaud on contemporary art in his book The Radicant (2009). In these works we identify an incursion into that “translation-oriented modernity” that Bourriaud himself proposes, since the acts of appropriation that are developed constitute a translation of past voices, which help to clear the signs of previous passages that are contained in hermetic archives, in order to build the present from them.

Re-Contextualizing Stage Politics: Interrogating Shakespeare’s Hamlet In Uruguay

For the spectator initiated in the political aspect of the Shakespearean theatre, Carlos Manuel Varela’s Interrogatorio en Elsinore proposes “a kind of extended palimpsest” of Hamlet that connects on stage a troubled, fictional Elsinore to the traumatic reality of Uruguay during the military junta. For the reader fascinated by comparative literary studies and implicated in the theatre world, Interrogatorio en Elsinore resonates with the Bulgarian playwright Nedjalko Iordanov’s the Murder of Gonzago by drawing from parallel extreme ideologies of neo-fascist and communist dictatorships and their institutionalized regime of terror. Both plays showcase the potential of the performance in Hamlet to underpin the role of the artist in the political landscape. Applied to Interrogatorio en Elsinore, such reflections lead the initiated spectator to conclude that Varela’s play proposes a Hamlet who connects on stage a troubled, fictional Elsinore to the traumatic reality of Uruguay.

Eastern Motif in Kazakh Literature (based on the fairy tale “A Thousand and One Nights”)

One of the relevant aspects of the study of modern comparative literature is the study of the complex of motives and motional complexes. Modern literary critics attach great importance to the motive and the motive complex. Because research on the motive and the motive complex in literature shows the influence of a certain literary period and individual folk literatures on the global literary process. Literary critics note that translated works are a separate aspect of the study, since the “plot-motive repertoire” of literature develops primarily due to translated works. The collection “One Thousand and One Nights” is recognized as one of the best examples of world literature. He entered the spiritual life, folklore and written literature of many peoples. “Tales of Scheherazade” is the most beautiful and highly artistic work among the remarkable monuments of oral literature. The life of the people is always reflected in its folklore. That is why the tale is a rich material for ethnocultural research. It will identify the main concepts of the national image of the world and track its changes. The tale is one of the traditions and genres that for many centuries have not lost their significance for world art culture. Subjects, motifs, images from folklore fairy tales are transmitted from generation to generation, play the role of carriers of cultural values and norms adopted in society. “A Thousand and One Nights” is a work that has become a phenomenon of mass culture in the fairy tale genre. There are many subjects and motives of this collection in world literature, Kazakh literature is no exception. The article examines the origin, distribution around the world, the influence on world literature of the book “One Thousand and One Nights”, which became a medieval Arabic encyclopedia, including the poetic transformation of the motives of this collection in Kazakh literature of the XIX–XX centuries. In addition, various variants of dastan SeifulmalikBadigulzhamal” from “One Thousand and One Nights” were investigated by a comparative analytical method.

A Review of Chinese Comparative Literature Scholar Professor Jing-Yao Sun’s Research on “Paraliterature”

Professor Jing-Yao Sun, a prominent figure in Chinese comparative literature and a renowned scholar in the field, has made significant contributions to the study of “paraliterature,” an area often overlooked by Chinese scholars. Since the early 1980s, he has been at the forefront of exploring Suzhou Pingtan through a literary perspective. In the 21st century, he emerged as a leading authority in the comparative analysis of “paraliterature,” particularly through his examination of storytelling between China and America. Furthermore, his insightful exploration of the essence of Ion’s oral literary performance and Plato’s misconceptions has paved the way for a deeper understanding of “paraliterature.” Professor Sun’s methodologies have profoundly inspired subsequent generations of comparative literature students in China, motivating them to contribute more to the study of international comparative literature.

The Shaping of the Other and the Speech of the Self—Interpretation of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan from a Imagological Perspective

Chinese American writer Lisa See’s novel Snow Flower and the Secret Fan focuses on the Yao minority in China, bringing the ancient and mysterious culture of nu shu to the world. This paper will combine the relevant theories of comparative literary imagological studies to explore Lisa See’s portrayal of the complex image of “China” as the “Other” in Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and the reasons for its creation. And then to unearth the image of “Self” reflected through the image of the “Other”, that is, Lisa See’s concern for feminism and her identification with her own identity as a Chinese American, and to further understand the relationship between the “Other” and the “Self”.

The Western Other In The Novel Of The Young Bedouin By Maqbool Al-Alawi

This study is concerned with analyzing the image of the other in literary texts where the people and cultures meet. This literary genre is considered one of the most critical areas of comparative literature studies in modern criticism. The study aims to prepare the students for comparative studies, one of the most essential domains that can benefit language learners. It enables the students to become familiar with and hold contrastive studies between Arabic as their mother tongue and the other languages and increase their linguistic proficiency. In addition, access to such studies or the experience of conducting them develops the learner's skills and abilities to understand, analyze, and track intellectual and reading coherence. Comparative literary studies have recently turned towards the novel to examine the image of nations and people in the writings of some of them in this literary genre. The narrative specificity of this genre is considered very important, as are people and cultures and the multiplicity of relationships of effect and influence among one another. From the importance of this standpoint comes the idea of this research, which seeks to Study the image of the Western Other in the novel "Albadawi Alsaqeer" (The Young Bedouin) by the Saudi novelist Maqbool Al-Alawi. This is due to its heavy reliance in its structure on the "Western Other" in its various manifestations and dimensions. They consider it looked at this other with a neutral and balanced vision that differed from the prevailing fictional writings that dealt with the relationship between the East and the West.

Metodoloģiski risinājumi romānu sērijas “Mēs. Latvija, XX gadsimts” imagoloģiskajai analīzei

The aim of this paper is to identify the possible methodological solutions that would enable a comprehensive imagological analysis of the national characters portrayed in the “We. Latvia, 20th Century” (Mēs. Latvija, XX gadsimts) novel series. Imagology, a sub-field of comparative literature studies, examines the representation of national and ethnic groups in literature and helps identify the stereotypes these images contain. However, in terms of theoretical schematics, the theory of imagology is quite loosely structured. On the one hand, this may cause a lot of uncertainty, but on the other hand, it promotes enough methodological freedom to adapt the theory of imagology to each individual research. This article offers two methodological solutions for text sample selection and data interpretation. Both models are based on already existing theoretical sources, schematising the information found in them and rearranging them into clearly defined criteria and function systems. To further improve the given theoretical models, the theory of semiotics, or more precisely, Charles Peirce’s (1839–1914) system of semiotic signs, was used. Since both methodological models were developed specifically for the analysis of the “We. Latvia, XX century” series, each of the described aspects and functions of these models is illustrated with examples from the novels, demonstrating the application of the proposed solutions in the actual process of literary analysis. The results of the analysis performed during the research are sufficiently varied and reliable to motivate further improvement of the given theoretical models.

Mystical motifs in literature as a reflection of the world of the human soul

Relevance. The basis of this research is a comparative study of mystical literature written by Kazakh and English-speaking writers.Purpose. In this article, the artistic works of famous authors are considered from the point of view of analyzing the features of the image of mystical motifs in them.Methodology. In this research paper, comparative analysis of mystical motifs in Kazakh literature and artistic works published in English-speaking countries were conducted. It is obvious that a new trend that began in the second half of the XVIII century in England led to the widespread use of mystical elements by writers in literature, and it also began to spread to other states, as well.Results. The functions of mystical motifs in various fictions are revealed, and the ways of their creation are determined in this work. Currently, there is a growing demand for mystical fictions, and interest in writing fictions with mystical elements. Therefore, there are many scholars who investigated the issues related to the mysticism in English Literature. Although Kazakh writers and poets started to use mystical elements in the structure of their fictions in 20th century only, this trend could find its readers.Conclusions. In their works, almost all the authors also lead and seduce their readers to the high ideals that they strive for. At the same time, the mystical literature researchers have been trying to analyze various controversial views on this matter, arising from the ambiguous nature of mysticism.

Introduction : Matérialités vibrantes à travers les médias, la littérature et la théorie

This special issue of *Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies* takes materiality as the critical touchstone for a new comparative literary and media studies. We ask: How can an examination of the modes of inscription across media, platforms, and interfaces draw greater attention to what is often ignored in critical conversations about texts, objects, and bodies; how can such an investigation attend to the vitality of their materiality? Studies of materiality may occur of/in: images, texts, subjects, and objects; philosophical approaches to materiality and interrelationality; cultural considerations of user relationships to media materiality; mediums of scholarship, including critical applications in open-source publishing; critical making and research-creation; and experiences, interactions, and representations of digital spaces. Here, we take materiality to include actants, actors, inscriptions, assemblages, interfaces, objects, bodies, things and the things we think with, as well as their agencies and provocations. The papers reconsider the entanglements between inscription and representation and between inscription and world through theoretical frameworks that show that “matter matters,” using approaches that include code studies, critical making, digital humanities, ecocriticism, feminism, Marxism, media archaeology, new materialism, and phenomenology.

Mutual Perceptions and China-South Korea Relations: A Comparative Study of the Academic Literature

How do China and South Korea see their relationship after 30 years of normalization, and why have views shifted since 2017? Research on perceptions and their foreign policy implications usually draws from offcial discourse and public opinion. This review essay assesses the nature and drivers of China-South Korea mutual perceptions by comparing their academic literature on bilateral relations. Scholarly accounts may offer longer-term interpretations of specialized interests, and a fuller picture of how and why views vary. On both sides of the China-South Korea academic debate, the quantitative volume of studies and qualitative appraisal of relations declined in the 2017???2021 Xi Jinping-Moon Jae-in period. Levels of optimism/pessimism vary by issue-area. Views of third-party constraints on security relations, and domestic political influences on societal relations, drive mutual pessimism. Koreans are more pessimistic about the economic partnership and reassess historical relations more unfavourably, which trace back to views of relative dependence and hierarchy. Three implications emerge for post-2022 relations in light of leadership transition in Beijing and Seoul. Enduring security priorities require minimum strategic interdependence and stronger trust-building mechanisms. Positive functional spillovers from economic and local/nonstate cooperation remain in question. And lasting cultural costs of political disputes compel joint efforts to enhance mutual understanding. Overall, shifts in structural and ideational factors that historically drove normalization are driving the current discord, and prompting both sides to lower future expectations of each other.

A Review on Congestion Mitigation Techniques in Ultra-Dense Wireless Sensor Networks: State-of-the-Art Future Emerging Artificial Intelligence-Based Solutions

The Internet of Things (IoT) and wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have evolved rapidly due to technological breakthroughs. WSNs generate high traffic due to the growing number of sensor nodes. Congestion is one of several problems caused by the huge amount of data in WSNs. When wireless network resources are limited and IoT devices require more and more resources, congestion occurs in extremely dense WSN-based IoT networks. Reduced throughput, reduced network capacity, and reduced energy efficiency within WSNs are all effects of congestion. These consequences eventually lead to network outages due to underutilized network resources, increased network operating costs, and significantly degraded quality of service (QoS). Therefore, it is critical to deal with congestion in WSN-based IoT networks. Researchers have developed a number of approaches to address this problem, with new solutions based on artificial intelligence (AI) standing out. This research examines how new AI-based algorithms contribute to congestion mitigation in WSN-based IoT networks and the various congestion mitigation strategies that have helped reduce congestion. This study also highlights the limitations of AI-based solutions, including where and why they are used in WSNs, and a comparative study of the current literature that makes this study novel. The study concludes with a discussion of its significance and potential future study topics. The topic of congestion reduction in ultra-dense WSN-based IoT networks, as well as the current state of the art and emerging future solutions, demonstrates their significant expertise in reducing WSN congestion. These solutions contribute to network optimization, throughput enhancement, quality of service improvement, network capacity expansion, and overall WSN efficiency improvement.

The image of a "new woman" in the novel "Virgin Soil" by I. S. Turgenev and in the short story "Mourning the Dead" by Lu Xun

The object of this article is the image of "new woman" in Russian and Chinese literature. The subject of the study is the correlation between the characters of two heroines, Zijun and Marianna, who are the bearers of a new female identity, in the story "Mourning the Dead" by Lu Xun and the novel "Virgin Soil" by I. S. Turgenev. The aim of the study is to identify the main factors that determined different outcomes of the storyline of these characters, despite the similarity of their fates. In order to achieve the set goal, it is necessary to solve the following tasks: 1) to reveal the personality of the two characters by analyzing their life path, as well as the beginning and end of their respective love; 2) to analyze the author's intention based on the socio-historical context of the period of creation of these two works. The following methods were used during the study: comparative method, method of holistic analysis of a literary work, as well as cultural-historical method. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that the article is the first attempt to compare Lu Xun's short story "Mourning the Dead" with I. S. Turgenev's novel " Virgin Soil ", with special attention paid to the opposite denouement of the stories of Zijun and Marianna. Based on the analysis, it is concluded that the outcome of the fates of these heroines is directly related to their perceptions of their own lives and love, which are conditioned, in turn, by the different intentions of the authors regarding the logic of the development of their characters. The scientific significance of the study lies in the fact that the data obtained not only reveal the ideas about the image of the "new woman" in general, but also contribute to a deep comparative understanding of the analyzed books, which can contribute to the field of comparative literary studies between Russia and China.

Travell(ing) (Through/into) Culture: A Critical Study Of Falling Off The Map By Pico Iyer And Domestic Manners Of The Americans By Frances Trollope

This comparative literary study examines Falling Off the Map by Pico Iyer and Domestic Manners of the Americans by Frances Trollope, exploring their representation of foreign lands and cultures. It analyses their attitudes towards cultural identity and belonging, and their use of history and memory. The study highlights the differing perspectives on the relationship between travellers and the places they visit, and the role of travel writing in shaping perceptions of other cultures.

Current Classical Pentecostal Bible Reading Methods: A Critical Perspective

The prevailing trend among members of the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa (AFM of SA) is to interpret the Bible in a biblicist and literalist way, which conflicts with how early Pentecostals read the Bible. Empirical research completed in 2020 supports the observation. In contrast, early Pentecostals read the Bible with the expectation of meeting God. Their precritical, canonical, and text-centered interpretation focused on the text inductively before they deductively compared it with related texts in a straightforward manner to formulate their teaching. The new generation of Pentecostals applied conservative Evangelical hermeneutics to focus on the world behind the text, using the historical-grammatical method to arrive objectively at the author's intended meaning. It was rooted in the Scottish Common-Sense school of philosophy in a synthesis with the Baconian method. Their new hermeneutic was based on a theory of inspiration that accepted that divine revelation terminated at the end of the first century, resulting in a discrepancy that conflicts with Pentecostals’ expectation for extrabiblical revelations, miracles, and wonders to continue. The article aims to suggest an alternative hermeneutical approach that can constructively address the discrepancy, based on the recently developed scholarly hermeneutic that employs post-critical and postmodern approaches such as literary, reader-response, and advocacy hermeneutics. It utilizes quantitative research and a comparative literature study to realize the aim.

TRANSLATION IN THE ALASH PERIOD: J. AIMAUVUTULI IS THE FIRST TRANSLATOR OF J. LONDON'S STORIES INTO KAZAKH LANGUAGE

Literary translation is undoubtedly the foundation of comparative literary studies, therefore there is a need for a systematic study of their relationship. No matter how valuable an idea in the native language expressed in the original language is, it is quite difficult to translate it into another language preserving its content, meaning and formal meanings. As you know, the work of a translator has many aspects, such as psychological, literary, linguistic and social. Also, the translator needs to convey as reliably as possible the information background that is in the original, i.e. national specific concepts; concepts related to mental psychology, genre specifics, the relation of the work to the literary current and direction, its features in the translation language, etc. taking into account the basics, a special study of variants of stories translated from English into Kazakh at different times, that is, taking into account the critical requirements of the time trying to determine the purpose of translation, the degree of equivalence and correspondence between the original and translated texts, the ratio of the position of the author and the translator, while the purpose and interest in the application of the principles of translation, their scientific and the practical value is important. The article compares two stories by J. London translated by Zh. Aimautov into Kazakh with the original; the accuracy of the translation, the methods used by the translator when transmitting the author's idea are investigated.

Multiply‐translated Chaucer in the Korean classroom

AbstractThis paper introduces a teaching experiment that uses a set of local translations of a European medieval text—in this case, Korean translations of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales—as teaching texts in the Korean classroom alongside the original work. Students compare a range of translations dating from all periods of the 20th century, including one from as early as 1915 and others from the 1960s, 1980s, and 2000s. Tracking the variety of translation methods and different linguistic and artistic choices employed by these multiple translations allows even students unfamiliar with Middle English to gain a better sense of the particulars of Chaucer's language and character‐making. Treating translation itself as a creative mode, this paper argues that even bad translations and messy histories of linguistic interference can be put to productive pedagogical use. Recuperated local translation archives can be used in the teaching of Middle English literature by helping students understand Chaucer's own positionality as a translator and compiler. Such archives also contribute to the study of comparative literature more broadly as they present case studies of how ideas of world literature are formed over time and space, and encourage a critical engagement with the canon even as it is being taught.

Diagnostic Approaches to Adult-Type Diffuse Glial Tumors: Comparative Literature and Clinical Practice Study.

Gliomas are the most frequent intrinsic central nervous system tumors. The new 2021 WHO Classification of Central Nervous System Tumors brought significant changes into the classification of gliomas, that underline the role of molecular diagnostics, with the adult-type diffuse glial tumors now identified primarily by their biomarkers rather than histology. The status of the isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) 1 or 2 describes tumors at their molecular level and together with the presence or absence of 1p/19q codeletion are the most important biomarkers used for the classification of adult-type diffuse glial tumors. In recent years terminology has also changed. IDH-mutant, as previously known, is diagnostically used as astrocytoma and IDH-wildtype is used as glioblastoma. A comprehensive understanding of these tumors not only gives patients a more proper treatment and better prognosis but also highlights new difficulties. MR imaging is of the utmost importance for diagnosing and supervising the response to treatment. By monitoring the tumor on followup exams better results can be achieved. Correlations are seen between tumor diagnostic and clinical manifestation and surgical administration, followup care, oncologic treatment, and outcomes. Minimal resection site use of functional imaging (fMRI) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) have become indispensable tools in invasive treatment. Perfusion imaging provides insightful information about the vascularity of the tumor, spectroscopy shows metabolic activity, and nuclear medicine imaging displays tumor metabolism. To accommodate better treatment the differentiation of pseudoprogression, pseudoresponse, or radiation necrosis is needed. In this report, we present a literature review of diagnostics of gliomas, the differences in their imaging features, and our radiology's departments accumulated experience concerning gliomas.

From the Neighbourhood of Firuzağa down the Rabbit Hole

Intermediality is a term to investigate the dialogues between imaginative texts from various types of media. Being a product of postmodern discourse, it has a massive influence on comparative literary studies, in that analyses with regard to intermedial considerations reinforce the impact area of the examined texts. This article aims at analysing Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll and Serial Cook (2017) by Ümit Ünal in order to show how an old canonical literary work demonstrates itself in a contemporary imaginative text on a cognitive level. It is obvious that artists build up such textual connections on purpose as well, but such an interaction achieved undeliberately, though the receivers of texts can never be confident, is another issue that requires attention. I argue that Serial Cook can be considered as a 21st century reception of AAW in that it exhibits certain aspects of Lewis Carroll’s style and content. It is apparent that the main character, Neslihan becomes a contemporary version of Alice in the face of a serial killer who has difficulties in adjusting to the mechanisms of the community she is part of. Throughout the movie, we see her relentless efforts to speak for herself and settle a new life. Furthermore, in both texts one can observe presence of dream imagery, which appears as an apparatus of initiation of both characters.