Although no longer American President, Donald Trump still manages to upstage the current administration. An explanation for his “sinister aesthetics”, to use Joel Elliot Slotkin’s concept, can be seemingly found in developing ...

The author of the present study deals with the whole complex of religious, cultural and artistic phenomenon linked with the rise of the European Reformation with special regard to the situation of Central and Eastern ...

The goal of this article is to establish the meaning of the genre as a mechanism intended for the artistic completion. For this purpose, we discuss the genetic aspect of the genre; starting with mythological foundations ...

In this part of my text I propose a thesis, that in The Painted Bird presented world is crucially molded by the grotesque pattern, which bares nature of reality as a place evoking repugnance. Next I consider comic element ...

Tayeb Salehs 1969 narrative, Season oj Migration to the North, is often categorized as a novel, a form that Mary Layoun considers a *colonizing genre”, and which is more familiar among Season's global readership than ...

Performativity, as defined by Judith Butler, is a means of analysis that focuses on the dynamic constitution of a subject, rather than focusing on the end result alone. The postperformative rut, into which criticism of ...