Sjani

Publisher Georgian Comparative Literature Association (GCLA)
ISSN 1512-2514
E-ISSN 2346-772X
Current Issue Vol. 26 (2025)
Published 2025-10-24
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"Sjani" is an annual scientific journal of literary theory and comparative literature, published in Georgia.

The journal includes important works covering actual themes and problems of contemporary literary studies, which have not been published yet.

Current Issue

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Problems of Literary Theory

The Obverse of Signs

Gerard Genet

9-25

Formal Analysis and History of Literature

Michael Riffaterre

26-48

Omar Calabrese. Neo-Baroque A Sign of the Times

Foreword

Umberto Eco

49-59

The Works of Marx and Engels on Aesthetics

(Introduction)

Georg Lukács

60-77

Hypotheses on World Literature

Franco Moretti

78-96

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Poetical Practices

The Traces of Modernist Methodology in the Postmodernist Worldview

Tamar Paichadze

97-108

Nikoloz Baratashvili and Western Romanticism

(Intersections of Poetic and Philosophical Thought)

Rostom Chkheidze

109-150

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Philological Researches

King Dimitri the Self-Sacrificer and "King Dimitri the Self- Sacrificer": Historical Data and Literary Narrative

(Part Two)

Merab Ghaghanidze

151-170

„Pighas”; „in Aphrosinians”; „the cup of Iraklis”

(For a new reading and interpretation of some passages related to Antiquity in the work of Anonymous Chronicler “The Hundred Years’ Chronicle”)

Ekaterine Kobakhidze

171-190

Oriental Text as a Tool for Reconstructing the Dialogical Structure of Artistic Reflection in the Late Lyrics of Mikhail Lermontov

Tatiana Megrelishvili

191-202

The Paradigm of the “Little Man” and Dehumanization in the Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vazha-Phshavela and Franz Kafka

(“The Crocodile”/“The Death of Bagrat Zakharich”/ “The Metamorphosis”)

Tamta Ghonghadze

203-224

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Critical Discourse

The Goals and Objectives of the Caucasus Censorship Committee

(Criteria for Applying Censorship to Literary Texts)

Tamar Sharabidze , Tamar Tsitsishvili, Anna Dolidze

225-243

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Interpretation

Literature and the Body in the Context of Davit Kartvelishvili’s Novel ,,La Quartet“

Nana Trapaidze

244-271

A Comparative Study of Pushkin’s 1829 Caucasus Travel Writings and “The Bronze Horseman”

Yuri Sugino

272-288

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Paradigms of Culture

Henri Barbusse’s Legacy in the Georgian Soviet Cultural Space

Rusudan Turnava, Tatia Oboladze

289-305

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Folkloristics – the Modern Researches

Faroese Literature: Scandinavian, Danish, National?

Andrey Korovin

306-313

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Reviews, Comments

Georgian Drama within the Matrix of European Drama

(On Irma Ratiani’s Book – “Poetics of Drama with Georgian Accent”)

Gaga Lomidze

314-318

Konstantine Bregadze's Magnum Opus

(Review of Konstantine Bregadze's Book “Goethe's Faust: Symbolism and Poetics”)

David Maziashvili

319-322

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New Books

New Books

Gaga Lomidze

323-330

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