Introduction to the study of supranational literary corpora from the perspective of feminist literary criticism and comparative thematology

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https://doi.org/10.64301/fc.v4i7.104

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feminist literary criticism, comparative thematology, supranational literature, novels of adultery

Abstract

In this proposal, we present a hybrid methodology for the analysis of supranational corpora of novels, combining feminist literary criticism and comparative thematology. It is based on the premise that modern and contemporary literature articulates common thematic trajectories beyond national borders, and seeks to trace both gender representations and symbolic itineraries across different cultural traditions. Its originality lies both in the articulation of two critical traditions that have usually worked in parallel and in the proposal of a way of reading the canon from the margins: attending to the major literary motifs in circulation and, at the same time, interrogating them from the ideological and gender structures that sustain them. As an example, we have applied this protocol to the study of female protagonists in 19th-century European novels of adultery, demonstrating its potential to reveal both supranational continuities and cultural singularities in the configuration of female agency.

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Author Biography

Diana Nastasescu, Universitat Jaume I

Diana Nastasescu holds a degree in Humanities: Intercultural Studies and in History and Heritage, and a Master's Degree in Intercultural Communication and Language Teaching and in Teacher of Compulsory Secondary Education and Baccalaureate, Vocational Training and Language Teaching from the Universitat Jaume I (UJI). PhD in Applied Languages, Literature and Translation from the same university, with a thesis entitled "Nueva lectura crítica feminista de las novelas de adulterio: inmanencia y trascendencia del sujeto femenino", co-directed by Dr. Santiago Fortuño Llorens and Dr. Vicent Manuel Salvador Liern, with international mention and excellent cum laude qualification.

She is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Pedagogy and Didactics of Social Sciences, Language and Literature (UJI), area of Didactics of Catalan Language and Literature. She has been a pre-doctoral researcher and substitute lecturer at the Universitat Jaume I, in the Department of Philology and European Cultures. She has been a visiting researcher at the University of Łódź (Poland, 2019), at the Universitat de Barcelona (2021) and at Fitzwilliam College (University of Cambridge, 2023-24). Her research interests are didactics of Catalan language and literature, comparative literature, thematology, critical analysis of oral and written discourse, Catalan and Spanish Realism/Naturalism, and European adultery novels of the second half of the 19th century. 

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Published

15-06-2026

How to Cite

Nastasescu, D. (2026). Introduction to the study of supranational literary corpora from the perspective of feminist literary criticism and comparative thematology. FemCrítica. Journal of Literary Studies and Feminist Criticism, 4(7), 21–34. https://doi.org/10.64301/fc.v4i7.104