Notes on Research of Popular Literature in the Central European Context by Kristián Benyovszky

“…It also takes into consideration Central European feedback on the writers of the Western canon, imagological analysis of national stereotypes, popular socialist culture, fandom and fan literature and intermediality and transmediality and fan literature and intermediality and transmediality of popular culture.…”
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From Periphery to Center: Challenging Stereotypes and Deconstructing Binaries in Andrea Levy’s Small Island by إبراهيم ناجي أحمد تاج الدين, عائشة عبدالرحمن المطري

“…The study illustrates how Levy succeeds in challenging the Western Canon by questioning stereotypes، reversing European imperialist fixed binaries and deconstructing the Eurocentric myths of superiority، authority and civility. …”
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Border Reconfigurations in Contagious Societies. Epidemics as Biopolitical Crises from the Decameron to Nemesis by Alice Balestrino

“…I will focus on the subtext of the plague in one of the foundational texts of the Western canon, the Decameron, paying particular attention to the metaphor of contagion as a phenomenon allowing for the renegotiations of biopolitical borders in the Florentine society of the Trecento. …”
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The Dance of the Dead Rhino: William Kentridge’s Magic Flute by Serena Guarracino

“…With its silence among the powerful sounds of Mozart's opera, the body of the dead, dancing rhino stands at the centre of Kentridge's work, which becomes a ceremony of mourning where the Western canon can be made to "resonate differently" (Trinh T. …”
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Nine yard sarees : a family portrait by Prasanthi Ganapathy Ram

“…Ingram’s formative work–and widens the established Western canon by studying a selection of contemporary Asian cycles and their explorations of respective diasporas. …”
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Representations of Shylock in Arnold Wesker’s <i>The Merchant</i>, Howard Jacobson’s <i>Shylock Is My Name</i> and Clive Sinclair’s <i>Shylock Must Die</i> by David Brauner

“…Given the centrality of Shakespeare to the Western canon and, more specifically, to the idea of a national English literary tradition, and given that Shylock is one of his most (in)famous creations, it is hardly surprising that he has proved irresistible to a number of Anglo-Jewish authors. …”
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Inheritance Geographies: Black Presence and the Making of London by Kettner, Katharine

“…This thesis rejects the minimization of Blackness in the Western canon. It calls on the disciplines of architecture and planning to expand their pedagogical horizons and to challenge normative ways of reading and understanding the built environment. …”
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Showcasing Emptiness? Voicing Redemption Through ‘Saharomania’ in the French Literary Imaginary by Amina Zarzi

“…While taking part in Said’s Western canon on the Orient, redemptive ‘Saharomania’ also participates in the wider definition of the ways in which the imaginary of emptiness fuelled the fin-de-siècle cult of the void. …”
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Modern to Contemporary: A Historiography of Global in Architecture by Macarena de la Vega de León

“…Sibel Bozdoğan set the task: to write an ‘intertwined history,’ which shows that the western canon and the cultural production of societies outside of Europe and North America are not separate and independent, nor is the latter to replace the former. …”
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A culturally competent approach to teach humanities in international medical school: potential frameworks and lessons learned [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] by Suhad Daher-Nashif, Tanya Kane

“…Results: In designing a course for students immersed in an Arab-Muslim context, we encountered two challenges: the discipline’s privileging of a predominantly Western canon of arts and humanities, and the largely Euro-American-centric and unilateral framing of concepts e.g., the doctor-patient relationship, patient-centered approach, patient experiences, and meanings of health and illness. …”
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THE VIEW FROM THE EAST ON THE PROBLEM FIELD OF WESTERN LITERARY AND THEORETICAL STU by Olena A. Mashchenko

“…Following the mastering of the Western literary and aesthetic canon – rather a long period when the writings of these authors were derived from the general paradigm of Western literature – the formation of a new literature takes place, protesting Bhabha’s idea of mimicry as a way of survival and adaptation of the colonized and demonstrating the non-Western canon as its artistic source. The era of posttheory should testify that the rumours of the “death of the theory” may be greatly exaggerated in case the overcoming crisis of theory, which is based on literary knowledge originating from the East.…”
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Urgency Of The Application Of Sharia Guarantee In Islamic Banking In Indonesia by Syaugi Seff, Muhammad Syarif Hidayatullah

“…Based on the above problems, this study proposes to look at the application of guarantee law in Islamic banking and legal issues that arise related to the implementation of collateral in Islamic banking related to the Western canon, and the offer of the need for sharia security that is based on Islamic law. …”
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“This England”: Re-Visiting Shakespearean Landscapes and Mediascapes in John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses (2010) by Maurizio Calbi

“…It will argue that through this interaction the familiarity of Western “canonical” literature re-presents itself as an uncanny landscape haunted by other stories, as a language that is already in itself the “language of the other” (Derrida). …”
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“Only in Dying Life”: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Dry Land and Its Cultural Contestations by Gabriela DEBITA

“…In doing so, it demonstrates Le Guin’s desire to distance herself from Western canonical influences, while nevertheless highlighting the fact that, given the cyclicity of literary rebellion, she is, in fact, walking in Dante’s and T. …”
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Neither prelegal nor nonlegal: Oral memory in troubled times by Mpho Ngoepe

“…African societies have been communicating and storing valuable information through memory, murals and rock art paintings since time immemorial. The dominant Western canons have previously classified this memory as prelegal and nonlegal. …”
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Portraits of women: the “foreigner” in the photographic work of Laura Grisi (1957-1990) by Caterina Toschi

“…This investigation examines the photographic research on female portraits by Laura Grisi (Rhodes 1939 - Rome 2017) during her travels in Africa, Oceania and South America, during which the artist developed her own visual reflection on the theme of the woman "foreigner" to Western canons in a rich documentation collected in various editorial projects, which, starting from the beginning of the 1960s, arrive at a retrospective synthesis in the study-interview edited by Germano Celant and published in Laura Grisi: A Selection of Works With Notes by the Artist (Rizzoli, 1990). …”
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Floristic Classification of Large-Scale Ecological Groups in the Forests of Central Zagros by F. Bahmani, A. Soltani, D. Mafi-Gholami

“…Subsequently, plant communities were divided into three ecological groups: eastern, central and western. Canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) was used to determine the correlation between changing plant composition and climatic and topographic variables as well as plant life forms. …”
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Mimetic Tradition and the Critical Theory by Barış Mete

“…It was, according to the acknowledgement of the Western canonical literary theory, Plato and Aristotle, who methodically established and expanded the connotations of the term to their students and followers. …”
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