Author：David Porter, Omid Azadibougar

Abstract: Introduction of the Special Column "World Literature before World Literature"

Vol. 7 No. 2 Dec. 2023 Time：2024-02-01

Author：Jean MacDonald

Abstract: Literature, with its diverse and broad spectrum of platform, medium, and delivery, has long been an indicator of a civilization’s culture. How the literature of various cultures was either preserved, lost, or shared has shaped the modern conception of World Literature. Libr...

Vol. 7 No. 2 Dec. 2023 Time：2024-02-01

Author：Irma Ratiani

Abstract: The history of Georgian writing starts much earlier than when Goethe introduced the term “Weltliteratur.” It starts from the era of Christianity from the 4th century. Due to the fast spread of Christianity in the Early Medieval period, Georgia was already included in the European net of Christian writing. All branches of Christian spiritual literature were presented. Georgian culture and literature naturally were developing in the frame of the Western European tradition. The period of the 11th-12th centuries was a Golden Era for Georgia, and the heyday of fame for Georgian culture and literature as well. Precisely during this period, “The Knight in the Panther’s Skin” was created by Shota Rustaveli. Apart from its aesthetic, philosophical, and worldview depth, it is a first text in Georgian literature as well as in European literature which reflects the

Vol. 7 No. 2 Dec. 2023 Time：2024-02-01

Author：Fábio Almeida de Carvalho

Abstract: The article both presents how, from the end of the 1980s onwards, native peoples have begun to occupy certain spaces of textual production and circulation that they had not previously occupied in the Brazilian cultural scene (for social, linguistic, and cultural...

Vol. 7 No. 2 Dec. 2023 Time：2024-02-01