This article focuses on Beki Luiza Bahar, the first published Turkish-Jewish woman playwright. Her oeuvre includes prose, poetry, memoir and a wide spectrum of fictional non-fictional works. To better grasp author’s writing praxis prove how merging fiction, biography, autobiography allows her to manage contradictory elements identity, study uses an inter-textual approach relying both works by a...

For the first time, this book parallels works of Góngora and Tirso, analyzing their different involvement in expressive modalities Baroque that both interpret value a hyperbolic way. With efficiency originality, renowned hispanist Laura Dolfi studies style Soledades, Panegírico, Cigarrales, artifices fiction that, Las firmezas de Isabela La fingida Arcadia, guide desenlace, underlining position...

The Irish playwright and socialist George Bernard Shaw has been of marginal concern for historians of biology because his vitalist Lamarckism has been viewed as out of step with contemporary science. However, Julian Huxley and J.B.S. Haldane were certainly of the opinion that Shaw was a man of influence in this regard and took pains to counter his views in their own attempts to engage the publi...

The present title takes a liberty with the title of playwright John Arden's Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, but not with the text. Toward the end of the play, Serjeant Musgrave exclaims "There used to be my duty: now there's a disease". So what is the serjeant's "disease"? The play, subtitled "an unhistoric parable" is a commentary on an unspecified late 19th century war in a British protectorate as...

Authors often convey meaning by referring to or imitating prior works of literature, a process that creates complex networks of literary relationships ("intertextuality") and contributes to cultural evolution. In this paper, we use techniques from stylometry and machine learning to address subjective literary critical questions about Latin literature, a corpus marked by an extraordinary concent...

The article investigates selected uses of theatricality by the poet and playwright Cyprian Norwid (1821-1883). Based on his previous works theatricality, among others, book “Theatricality Life. Practices Startegies” (A. Marszałek, Toruń 2020), as well numerous publications Norwid, Kazimierz Braun focuses four, especially evident, cases Norwid’s bringing into play in life. They are discussed cha...

It is a well-known fact that William Shakespeare, just like many of his contemporaries, was influenced by earlier literary and non-literary sources while he writing plays. However, Shakespeare did not remain true to the which inspired neither in terms content nor form. Much Ado About Nothing, wrote making use features New Comedy genre had emerged Ancient Greece, undoubtedly an indicative master...

Abstract This article discusses discourses of Czech tourism on the Eastern Adriatic coast between turn twentieth century and 1930s using resorts in Baška Krk Island Kupari near Dubrovnik as case studies. The author argues that ideological foundation this type was a narrative proximity Czechs their fellow Slav Croatians. At same time, practice characterized by pattern cultural paternalism econom...

The article deals with the artistic originality of bilingualism one leading modern Mordovian playwrights Alexander Pudin. most productive types it in work playwright are defined, and reasons for use two languages writing process identified. importance transition from language to another is emphasized order expand aesthetic boundaries author’s worldview accurately convey ethnic nuances foreign-l...