Browse

The aim of the study is to perform and present the synchronic and diachronic analysis of the Russian writer’s, Anton Chekhov’s (1860 – 1904), reception in Latvia in four most significant cultural historical periods that determined the establishment and formation of the writer’s “literary reputation” (I. Rozanov) in Latvia. The material of the study is essays, dedication poetry, translations, and staged performances to trace the borrowings and direct influences that form the “outer” and “inner” reception of Chekhov...

The paper analyses the reception of the Irish-born British writer Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) in Latvia following the translations of his works into Latvian and the most vivid expressions in Latvian authors’ creative writing. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the poetics of cross-cultural influences in Latvia was very diverse: one of the most striking being the aesthetic vector marked by the crucial influence of Wilde’s personality and his literary heritage. The dialogue held between Latvian national and f...

Disability studies as an independent branch of social sciences and humanities was established and initially developed in English-speaking countries (the USA, Great Britain, Canada) and at the end of the 20th century coincided with the contemporary topicalities of sociology, philosophy, feminism, post-structural criticism and the theory of national minorities (this issue has been considered from various perspectives by Miles Beauchamp, Wendy Chung, Alijandra Mogilner, Ashutosh Singh, Viktorija Sukovataja, Svetlana ...

{{The aim of the present study}} is to trace the logic of selection and the specificity of the actualization of the names of professions as a basis of comparison (the component, to which something is compared) on the Russian and Latvian literary material. {{The material of the study}} is the comparisons used by two chronologically and thematically related writers – Anna Brigadere (1861 – 1933) and Ivan Shmelev (1873 – 1950). The Latvian writer and playwright A. Brigadere surprisingly actively introduces comparativ...