The present study sets out to investigate whether the position of literary works in the English literary polysystem influences the Iranian translators’ translational behavior at the textual level. Given the prominent position of canon and bestseller novels in English literary polysystem, the study intends to find out whether the translators of canon and bestseller novels are faithful to theirso...

This article studies the reception of a popular 19 century Anglo-Indian novel, Captain Philip Meadows Taylor’s Tara (1863). This novel was once assigned a central position in the canon of Anglo-Indian novel. However, in the present age, it has been displaced from its position of eminence. This article contends that the present marginalization of Tara can be related to the change in the politica...

Immediately before and shortly after the collapse of socialism in 1989, a large number of private publishing houses were founded in Hungary. Some of them began their career by republishing the novels of selected popular Hungarian women writers of the preWorld War II era that had been banned following the Soviet occupation of the country in 1945. The lack of comprehensive literary criticism on t...

Literary fiction has seldom been seriously considered as a mode of science communication. Here, I review novels from the 19th century canon of English literature in which characters either have, or aspire to have, substantive professional scientific roles to see what insights they provide into the practice of science in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. They reflect the historical transition of...

The Author and the Magi: Magic in the Ancient Novel and its Implications for Readership What argues most strongly for the recognition of the ancient " novel " as part of the novel genre in its proper sense is its familiarity. These texts, picaresque, romantic, concise and designed to thrill, offer no generic convention unfamiliar to us from the modern novels of western Europe—the improbable esc...

Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, has become something of an enigma in the American literary canon. Almost completely forgotten until recently, he appears to be having something of a literary renaissance. A gradual increase in critical and biographical output and the recognition of his influence on the work of Philip Roth and other American writers has se...

Recent years have seen a proliferation of critically acclaimed novels for young adults dealing with bereavement. This is part of a 'bereavement turn'--a contemporary cultural movement to examine publicly our attitudes to death and grieving. This paper examines the narrative strategies in Patrick Ness's award-winning novel A Monster Calls to look at the ways in which the psychic burden of the im...

Roughly out of every 300 Americans is a lawyer. The remaining 299 of us who are not lawyers still have good reasons to be interested in our legal system. Out of necessity, we have to conduct much of our day-to-day affairs without a lawyer standing beside us. Therefore we need to have at least some knowledge about the law so as to anticipate the possible legal effects of our actions and, for sur...

To understand the transformation of canons and struggle with them, we may productively explore fanfiction, a particular reader's, viewer's, author's practice, within non-professional non-commercial texts based on plots heroes other people's works. Fanfiction is paradoxical phenomenon: it wholly specific canon — collectively selected film literary texts, moves by worship, emotional attachment, a...