Testimony to Muzil: Hervé Guibert, Michel Foucault, and the "Medical Gaze" examines the fictional/autobiographical AIDS writings of the French writer Hervé Guibert. Locating Guibert's writings alongside the work of his friend Michel Foucault, the article explores how they echo Foucault's evolving notions of the "medical gaze." The article also explores how Guilbert's narrators and Guibert himse...

This article analyses five recent Japanese short stories written by women, with female first person narrators, and the English translations of these stories. I examine how the writers interact with the culturally loaded concept of gendered language to develop characters and themes. The strategies used by translators to render gendered styles into English are also discussed: case-by-case creativ...

The novels by Benedicto Monteiro Verde vagomundo (1972), O minosauro (1975) and A terceira margem (1983), written published in the context of Brazilian military dictatorship, employ their compositions technique montage fragmentation, common to other from 1970’s (Franco, 1998), they appear us non-conforming feature as disjointed fractals self-moving trees (Pacheco, 2020). Mobilizing diverse disc...

Narrator, Audience and Performance in Rural Ukrainian Storytelling Jennifer Dickinson ([email protected]) University of Vermont, Dept. of Anthropology Introduction: The Place of Stories in Apsha Social Life In my experience, no one is more pitied in Ukrainian rural life than the person who is alone, as I discovered when I would try to sit in the house alone and read or work at my compu...

The 1960s was a particularly productive decade for Latin American literature. In those years, Latin American writers produced an astounding number of excellent novels that are marked by their incredible diversity in style and/or content. Despite their variety, however, there are some common characteristics such as the recurrent theme of metafictional concerns, the presence of intertextuality, t...

Phillip Roth's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, American Pastoral, characterizes Seymour Irving Levov as a tragic hero of Adam with unique narrative techniques. The novelist-narrator Zuckerman adds metafictional features to the realistic narration story Swede and varies distance in novel. This article discusses effects on characterization Levov. It argues that dynamic change novel at first mytholo...