CLCWeb - Comparative Literature and Culture

Aims & Scope

The intellectual trajectory of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture is located in the humanities and social sciences in the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparative cultural studies." Comparative cultural studies is a contextual approach in the study of culture in all of its products and processes; its theoretical and methodological framework is built on tenets borrowed from the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies and from a range of thought including literary and culture theory, systems theory, and communication theories; in comparative cultural studies focus is on theory and method, as well as on application; in comparative cultural studies metaphorical argumentation and description are discouraged; the intellectual trajectory of the journal includes the postulate to work in a global and intercultural context with a plurality of methods and approaches, and in interdisciplinarity in the study of the processes of communicative action(s) in culture, the production and processes of culture, the products of culture, and the study of the how of these processes; the epistemological bases of comparative cultural studies are in (radical) constructivism and in methodology the contextual (systemic and empirical) approach is favored (however, comparative cultural studies does not exclude textual analysis proper or other established fields of scholarship).

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This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

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This journal follows a plagiarism policy. All submitted manuscripts are screened using reliable plagiarism detection software to ensure originality and academic integrity. Authors are responsible for proper citation and acknowledgment of all sources, and any form of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism, will not be tolerated.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• (Inter)mediality and the Study of Literature

  Citation: 44

  Authors: Werner

• Discourses and Models of Intermediality

  Citation: 37

  Authors: Jens

• Motherhood in African Literature and Culture

  Citation: 31

  Authors: Remi

• Integrating Social Media in Education

  Citation: 25

  Authors: Hadewijch, Pieter

• The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Jin

• Cultures of Populism and the Political Right in Central Europe

  Citation: 18

  Authors: Patricia, Andrea

• TED Talks as an Emergent Genre

  Citation: 18

  Authors: Julia

• Bakhtin, Genre Formation, and the Cognitive Turn: Chronotopes as Memory Schemata

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Bart

• From Comparative Literature Today Toward Comparative Cultural Studies

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Steven

• The Meaning and Relevance of Video Game Literacy

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Jeroen