Irony in Linguistics and Literary Theory: Towards a Synthetic Approach by Inés Lozano-Palacio

“…The more socio-historical approach taken by literary theorists contrasts with the more analytical bias of linguistic accounts. …”
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The Discursive Creation of the ‘Montenegrin Language’ and Montenegrin Linguistic Nationalism in the 21st Century by Jovanović Srđan M.

“…Backed by the state, a coterie of nationalist literary theorists and linguists started discursively promoting Montenegrin in academic and public spaces, mostly via the dubious quasi-academic journal titled Lingua Montenegrina. …”
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Unheard Playful Voices: Margaret Atwood᾽s Grace Marks as an (Reliably) Unreliable Narrator by Vladimíra Fonfárová

“…Booth, has been a challenge for many literary theorists including James Phelan, Monika Fludernik and Ansgar Nünning to name just a few. …”
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Phenomenology of Reference in Male Seduction: “Pragmatic Love” by Alia Mamdouh as a Model by أ.م.د. محمد جاسم محمد عباس

“…The first deals with the "phenomenological concept," relying on its principal propositions, along with a section on procedural intersection based on philosophical comments that literary theorists have made consistent with the specificity of the literary work. …”
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Performing (Re)writing: Moving Through Modes of Textual Engagement by Tiffane Levick

“…This paper frames the concepts of foreignization and domestication, so fervently discussed in the field of Τranslation Studies, within a selection of theories put forward by theatre studies scholars and literary theorists. After exploring the definitions of foreignization and domestication as proposed by Lawrence Venuti (1995), as well as the modes of textual engagement advanced by Rita Felski (2008), namely recognition, enchantment, knowledge, and shock, we address parallel discourses in other fields and make a case for conceiving of the act of translation as both a form of performance and a type of writing. …”
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Content Analysis of Discourse in the Novels: Iranian Dawn and Love and the Incomplete Woman by Shirzad Tayefi, Haniyeh Hajitabar

“…Bakhtin, one of the leading literary theorists of the twentieth century, has been focused on novel among all forms of prose. …”
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The Themes of Loss and Loneliness in Jonathan Coe’s Novel “The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim”

“…According to some literary theorists, this novel can be perceived as a subgenre of the “state-of-the-nation novel”, which is in our opinion a debatable question. …”
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Necessary Literature: On the Border Between Literature and Evolution by Michele Cometa

“…The success of the term “biopoetics” extends far beyond the biopolitical paradigm inaugurated by Foucault, even though biopoetics embraces the same central challenge: the reassessment of bios and zoos which lie in the folds, no longer so hidden, of cultural thought. Literary theorists thus appear to wish to re-examine the contradictions that the thesis of “two cultures” has set forth, at least since the period of Romanticism. …”
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Typology of Anecdotes During 8th to 10th Century AD (Plus Introducing Two Manuscripts) by Najmeh Zare Banadkooki, Sayyed Mahdi Nourian, Mohsen Mohammadi Fesharaki

“…The second most famous book is Lataʼif al-tavaʼif by ʻAlī ibn Ḥusayn Kāshifī Ṣafī who is known as the inventor of classification based on social castes. As literary theorists often emphasize, no literary work is formed suddenly and works of every kind progress gradually under influence of the previous ones. …”
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Contemporary Dangers of Huntington's travesty of "History": A Postcolonial Deconstructionist Response and Proposed Solution by محمد عبدالله حسين محرم

“…Drawing from some postcolonial and literary theorists, including Depish Chakrabarty and Gayatri Spivak, the paper deconstructs Huntington's notion of "history" which has been found to be based on secondary sources, selective, ignorant, and marginalizing non-Western histories, including five hundred years of philosophical and scientific contribution of Islamic civilization to the sleeping Europe and the West. …”
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On the epistemological significance of aesthetic values in architectural theory by Bhatt, Ritu

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Kim and Kip in the Mirror of Mimicry: A Postcolonial Study by Dr. MD Rakibul Islam, DR. Nazia Hasan

“…In the paper, we have used the views of postcolonial and cultural literary theorists on mimicry, deliberating upon how with the effect of both the processes, Kip and Kim, consciously or unconsciously, get their national identity peeled off, affixing new hybrid identity.   …”
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Analysis of Narrative Structure in Bijan Najdi's Stories Based on Poetics of Modernism (with Emphasis on Charles May and Susan Ferguson's Theories) by Manoochehr Tashakkori, Mahmoud Rezaie Dasht Arjaneh, Ghodrat Ghasemipoor, Maryam Bakhshi

“…Innovative applying of such devices as combining features of prose and poetry in the use of language,  complicating narrative structure with the application of subjective methods of narration and techniques of breaking narration, tendency to metaphorical pole of language, blending reality and fantasy or objectivity and subjectivity extensively, integration of present and past and many other narrative techniques, not only record his writing style as a unique style with the ability to be followed and continued in the history of Persian fiction, but also create a lot of similarities and correspondences in the technical and narrative structure with what the modernist literary theorists like Charles May and Susan Ferguson have explained in their theories about short story. …”
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The English Catholic New Left: Battling the Religious Establishment and the Politics of the Cold War by Jay P. Corrin

“…In the 1960s there appeared in England a group of young university educated Catholics who sought to merge radical Catholic social teachings with the ideas of Karl Marx and the latest insights of European and American sociologists and literary theorists. They were known as the English Catholic New Left (ECNL). …”
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YOU ARE NEVER ALONE AS A LITERARY TRASH? by Pavel Matejovič

“…The author of the study was also inspired by the works of Czech literary theorists and historians (D. Mocná, P. Janáček). …”
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PETRARCHAN CONTEXTS OF JOHN DONNE’S SPIRITUAL LYRICS by Maryana V. Markova

“…The article is directed to study only one of many aspects of his many-sided artistic heritage which needs the comprehensive professional analysis of the literary theorists and historians. So this article can be used for the further investigation of the problems, connected with the Petrarchan discourse generally in English literature and particularly in John Donne’s works and the scientific results proposed in it can be used in writing course works, graduation works and thesis on the related themes.…”
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Milan Šimečka: Listy z väzenia, Dopisy z vězení) .(Writing As a Way Towards the Reality (Milan Šimečka: Listy z väzenia, Dopisy z vězení – Letters from the Prison) by Pavel Matejovič

“…From the perspective of a literary genre the attention of literary theorists and critics was drawn to his publicistic and essayistic, in which his civic attitudes are reflected. …”
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Identificação computacional de estruturas métricas de versificação na prosa de Euclides da Cunha / Computational identification of versification metric structures in Euclides da Cu... by Ricardo Carvalho, Angelo Loula, João Queiroz

“…Abstract: Versification structures written in Portuguese language prose are still an unexplored phenomenon to literary theorists and historians, and the automatic mining of such structures is still unseen in Computational Linguistics. …”
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Has Frye ignored ethos in ethical criticism? by Marjan Hosseinpoor Jeerhandeh, Omid Zakerikish, Masoud Algooneh Juneghani

“…Extended Abstract Introduction Northrop Frye (1912-1991) is one of the literary theorists of the 20th century.  He was familiar with the medieval interpretations of the Bible on the one hand and with the theories of the New Criticists on the other, and saw a significant symmetry between the Bible on the one hand and literature on the other. …”
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