Studia Litterarum

Aims & Scope

Studia Litterarum (Literary Studies) is a scholarly journal established by the major research center for the study of world literature and folklore in Russia — A.M.

Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IWL RAS, 2016).

The journal has both a print and an electronic version.

The Internet version is a full-text analogue of the print copy and is in the public domain.

The main objective of the journal is to share fundamental and original results of the research in the world literary heritage taken in its broad chronological (from the ancient times to our day) and ethno-geographical (peoples of Russia, Europe, America, Asia, Africa, and Australia) as-pects.

It covers the following branches of philological studies: - literary history and theory, - comparative studies, - folklore studies, - textology, literary and folklore sources, - historical and theoretical poetics, - history of philology.

Besides articles in literary studies and folklore, the journal invites inter-disciplinary works borde-ring with linguistics, ethnology, art history, cinema and theatre studies, history, and other huma-nitarian disciplines.

The journal aims to encourage intellectual exchange among Russian and foreign scholars in regard to the most relevant philological questions and is open to the representatives of different contemporary schools of literary and folklore studies.

It publishes the most recent academic studies in literature and folklore not limiting the submitted materials by any constraints related to specific national traditions, research schools or fields of philological knowledge.

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Licensing & Copyright

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.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

Policy Links

This section provides access to essential policy documents, guidelines, and resources related to the journal’s publication and submission processes.

• Aims scope
• Homepage
• Oa statement
• Author instructions
• License terms
• Review url
• Board url
• Copyright url
• Preservation url
• Apc url
• License

APC Details

The journal’s Article Processing Charge (APC) policies support open access publishing in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, ensuring accessibility and quality in research dissemination.

This journal does not charge a mandatory Article Processing Charge (APC). However, optional open access publication may incur fees based on the publisher’s policies.

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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.

• National Specificity and Artistic Value: At the Crossroads of Ethnocultural Discourse and Axiological Critique

  Citation: 5

  Authors: Kazbek K.

• Genre Genesis and Plot Theory of Ivan Bunin’s Early Prose

  Citation: 5

  Authors: Evgeny R.

• Representation of the Past in Bernhard Schlink's Fiction

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Dmitry A.

• Epic Specificity of Ukrainian Folk Dumas

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Stanislav K.

• “The Tale of the Miraculous Icon of Our Lady of Kazan” in the light of Old Russian Literary Tradition

  Citation: 3

  Authors: Vladimir M.

• The Mouse and The Icon: on the Ethnographic Roots of Dostoevsky’s Poetics

  Citation: 3

  Authors: Sergey V.

• The “Dacha Myth” in Russian Literature of the Turn of the 20th–21st Centuries: The Case of Yuri Mamleev

  Citation: 3

  Authors: Olga A.

• Pyotr Karlovich Uslar — the Founder of Caucasian Folklore

  Citation: 3

  Authors: Alla I.

• Towards the Description of “Philological Translation” in the 1930-s: Adrian A. Frankovsky as Translator of the 18th Century English Novel

  Citation: 3

  Authors: Maria E.

• Russian Poetic Neo-avant-garde of the 2nd Half of the 20th Century: On Issue of the Term’s Use Boundaries

  Citation: 3

  Authors: Mikhail G.