Contents
Position
Jessica Pressman – Loving Books at the End of the Millennium
Problems of Literary Theory
Tamar Lomidze – Poetics of Akaki Tsereteli: Main Trends
Konstantine Bregadze – Faust’s Worldview and Pansophism (“Magic”)
Poetical Practices
Manana Kvachantiradze – Conceptual Motivations of Characters in Vazha Pshavela’s “Host and Guest”
Ewa A. Łukaszyk – Transcultural Writing and Non-hegemonic Universalism. Reading Ali and Nino in the Context of Global Literary Studies
Irakli Tskhvediani – Mythopoeic Chronotope in John Dos Passos’s Manhattan Transfer
Chrestomathy of Literary Theory
Aleksei Losev – The Oriental Renaissance, Georgia
Theory of Poetry
Lela Khachidze – Byzantine and Georgian Hymnographical Legacy (“Lenten Triodion under George the Athonite’s Redaction”)
Philological Researches
Nona Kuprishvili – Reconstruction of Creative Process in Accordance with Akaki Tsereteli’s Ascenting” and Galaktion Tabidze’s “Moon Over Mtatsminda”
Galyna Morieva – Viewing the Future: Prediction in the Literary Texts
Rūta Brūzgienė – Juozas Baltušis’s Novel „Sakmė apie Juzą“ [Saga about Juza]:an Archetypal Expression of the Nation’s Vitality
Interpretation
Tatiana A. Bystrova – Years of Lead in Giuseppe Genna’s Novel “Italia De Profundis”
Critical Discourse
Levan Bregadze – Shota Rustaveli Against the Utilitarians
Theory and Practice of Translation
Manana Gelashvili, Maya Kiasashvili – Joyce’s Ulysses in Georgian
Paradigms of Culture
Dr. Konrad Gunesch – The Total Artwork in Comparative Literature Analysis: Belletristic and Scientific Positions from Wagner’s Operas and Tolstoy’s Art Philosophy to Business Branding and the Olympic Games
Folkloristics – the Modern Researches
Rusudan Choloqashvili, and Kevin Tuite The Common Mythic Roots of a Kisti Legend and the Georgian Ballad Eteriani
Reviews, Comments
Natia Sikharulidze – A Guide to Comparative Literature in Georgian
New Books – Prepared by Gaga Lomidze