An Extensive Investigation of the Scientific and Philosophical Nature of Literature by hosein novin

“…The scientific nature of literature as the intuitive embodimer-t and reflection of the human psyche has not been thoroughly investigated so far. Literary theorists have often studied it from aesthetic Point of view or moral aspects. …”
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Epic Performed: The Poetic Nature of TV Series by Marco Segala

“…In this paper I aim to test a general interpretation of television series as narrative epics, in the sense defined by Aristotle’s Poetics and canonised by Renaissance literary theorists.…”
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Using Literary Theory to Read Games: Power, Ideology, and Repression in Atlus’ Growlanser: Heritage of War by Johansen Quijano-Cruz

“…This article argues that although many people state that literary theorists are attempting to take over the field of game studies, there has yet to be a real attempt to apply literary theory to a close reading of specific games. …”
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À l’écoute d’Apollinaire: pour revenir au souci de vérité, de vraisemblance qui domine toutes les recherches […] de l'esprit nouveau by Alicia Piquer Desvaux

“…If, during centuries, France has postulated verisimilitude in all literary endeavours as a general rule for lucidity and good taste, throughout postmodernity it has been France’s philosophers, semioticians, literary theorists and writers who have questioned this. …”
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Intellectuals in the universe of Liberal Arts by Heidrun Krieger Olinto

“…This forms of ego-writings or ego-histories that legitimate theirselves by the accent on self-reflexive processes, not only question the impartiality and their invisibility self-imposed by tacit professional commitments subjacent to the construction of knowledge, but also permit new views on the relations established by literary theorists among particular experiences, performances in scientific communities in the institutional domain of academia and ethic and political positions in the extramuros world. …”
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Od teorii do hermeneutyki. Przypadek Stanisława Balbusa by Piotr Sobolczyk

“…The article presents Stanisław Balbus, one of the most influential Polish literary theorists. Balbus (somehow like Barthes) began as a structuralist, but also practiced literary criticism of the interpretive mode, however later, during the time of the paradigm change in Poland, he evolved to the hermeneutics and to the interpretive paradigm. …”
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The Use of Free Indirect Discourse in J. R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood series by Evie Kendal

“…Although the romance genre has received a lot of attention in feminist and gender studies, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s, it is still largely ignored by narratologists and other literary theorists. When romance is subjected to any scholarly treatment it tends to be as a cultural phenomenon, and in bulk, rather than as individual texts. …”

Alguns pontos sobre a história da crítica genética by Almuth Grésillon

“…This article defines a new interdisciplinary field, which has caused perplexity amongst the literary theorists and critics. The most importam moments (positive and negative) of the reception of the genetic criticism are stressed.…”
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“Finis epigrammatis est anima eius”: Transformations of the Content of the Latin Epigram in the Epoch of the Baroque by Živilė Nedzinskaitė

“…In the 16–18th centuries literary theorists in their works discussed the place of the epigram in the hierarchy of literary genres, determined their functions, form, defined the possibilities of content. …”
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Overcoming Traumatic Experience in Zdenko Lešić’s Polydiscursive Novel: About Tara as Practice of Compassion by Ajla Demiragić

“…Zdenko Lešić, one of Bosnia and Herzegovina's most prominent literary theorists, published two novels in the period following the war: Sarajevo Tabloid (Split 2001) and About Tara (Sarajevo 2004). …”
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Poststructural analysis of the role of reader by Rizvanović Nenad E.

“…The relationship between authors, texts, and readers is regarded as the key-point of theoretical analysis among many relevant scholars and literary theorists (Umberto Eco, Wolfgang Iser, Jonathan Culler, Peter Rabinowitz, Stanley Fish), who have all contributed to our understanding of this topic by introducing fundamental concepts such as 'the implied reader', 'the ideal reader', 'the informed reader' or 'the authorial reader'. …”
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Theories of the End of the Novel by Barış Mete

“…Although all those pessimistic prognostications have failed to predict the future of the novel truly, it is essential to comprehend why a number of writers and literary theorists participated in the discussions.…”
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En torno al Caribe: Arciniegas y Benítez Rojo. by Santiago Villa Chiappe.

“…Based on the ideas of literary theorists like Mikhail Bakhtin and Edward W. Said, we will see how it is possible to discover “occult” thematic aspects, in each of these histories, through a study of both their style and form. …”
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"You Gotta Admit You Had It Comin to You": Trauma, Gender Violence and Female Bonding in Marsha Norman’s Getting Out by Maika Aira Gallardo

“… During the 1970s, and especially during the 1980s and 1990s, gender violence began to receive the attention of literary theorists, who explored it from a variety of different perspectives. …”
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New Historicism as an Approach to the Study of Literature: From Stephen Greenblatt Until Today by Maja Džafić

“…Many literary theorists and historians of our time are increasingly exploring the historical circumstances under which literary works were created. …”
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BOOK REVIEW: ANCA PEIU, “FAULKNERIANA. BACK TO (AND BEYOND) YOKNAPATAWPHA”, BUCUREȘTI, C.H. BECK, 2019, 266 P. by Adina DRAGOȘ

“…Moreover, his work has been spared no criticism or analysis from literary theorists and fellow authors worldwide, most of whom have made great efforts to untangle the web of themes and motifs Faulkner had become known for exploring. …”
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BOOK REVIEW: ANCA PEIU, “FAULKNERIANA. BACK TO (AND BEYOND) YOKNAPATAWPHA”, BUCUREȘTI, C.H. BECK, 2019, 266 P. by Adina DRAGOȘ

“…Moreover, his work has been spared no criticism or analysis from literary theorists and fellow authors worldwide, most of whom have made great efforts to untangle the web of themes and motifs Faulkner had become known for exploring. …”
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Feminizam i žene beat-generacije by Damir Španić

“…For many years literary theorists considered that women writers of the Beat Generation were not worth mentioning. …”
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The Spectacle of Failure: Reading Beckett’s 'Endgame' Philosophically by Rossen Ventzislavov

“…The borderline between philosophy and literature is highly contested. Still, if literary theorists and philosophers agree on the occasional work’s ability to transcend border norms altogether, Samuel Beckett’s 'Endgame' is a piece of dramatic writing that amply deserves the distinction. …”
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'n Verkenning van die moontlikhede van 'n resepsieteoretiese benadering tot die lees van Romeine 7:7–25 by J. Botha

“…A brief theoretical discussion of this approach is given, focusing on the work of the German literary theorists, Hans Robert Jauss and Wolfgang Iser. …”
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