International Journal of Literature and Arts

Volume 13, Issue 2, April 2025

  • Research Article

    Wallace Stevens, Communism, and the Artistic Imagination

    Kenneth Womack*

    Issue: Volume 13, Issue 2, April 2025
    Pages: 23-29
    Received: 29 January 2025
    Accepted: 12 February 2025
    Published: 11 March 2025
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ijla.20251302.11
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    Abstract: In his lectures and poetry across pre- and postwar America, Wallace Stevens evinced an increasingly fervent anti-communist stance. In several seminal poems, including “A Duck for Dinner,” “A Dish of Peaches in Russia,” “Description without Place,” and “Mountains Covered with Cats,” Stevens addressed aspects of life in the Soviet Union, as well as w... Show More
  • Research Article

    Rosaries and Prayerbooks: Sacred Objects of Spirituality and Religion on Antarctica

    Ellen Cressman Frye*

    Issue: Volume 13, Issue 2, April 2025
    Pages: 30-37
    Received: 18 December 2024
    Accepted: 12 February 2025
    Published: 13 March 2025
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ijla.20251302.12
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    Abstract: In the language, literature, and culture of Antarctica, religion and spirituality have always played a supremely valuable, yet glaringly overlooked, role. For some people, like Antarctica itself, spirituality and religion often go unnoticed in their daily lives. Very slowly, as global warming and climate change have started to affect more people’s ... Show More
  • Research Article

    Abraham Brueghel’s Engraving of The Wine of St. Martin’s Day and the Bentvueghels Fraternity in Rome

    Martin William Walsh*

    Issue: Volume 13, Issue 2, April 2025
    Pages: 38-41
    Received: 22 February 2025
    Accepted: 13 March 2025
    Published: 31 March 2025
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ijla.20251302.13
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    Abstract: This article examines the engraving by Rome-based Nicholas Guérard commissioned by Abraham Brueghel (1630/31-c. 1690) in 1670 and based on his great-grandfather, Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s peasant festival painting The Wine of St. Martin’s Day, a mature work of the great Flemish painter recently authenticated by the Prado. The circumstances of the ... Show More