The Pentamerone (1634–1636) by Giambattista Basile is one of the first, and most important literary collection in the European fairy-tale tradition. Basile’s work is considered a precursor to later fairy-tale writers like Charles Perrault and the Grimm Brothers. His stories also preserve a much older mythic traditions shaped by ritual transformation, sacred kingship, and cosmic justice. This...
This paper explores how British and Uzbek prose represent the inner life of the individual and the experience of transcendence. It examines psychological and mystical realism not as isolated literary trends, but as interconnected ways of portraying consciousness, doubt, faith, memory, and spiritual awakening. The study examines how writers guide readers to experience complex mental and...