Irma Ratiani, Doctor of Philology, Professor at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Head of the Department of General and Comparative Literary Studies, Director of the TSU Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature and, President of Georgian Comparative Literature Association (GCLA). Her research interests include Georgian literature within a broad literary and theoretical context. She is the author of significant works including Georgian Literature and the World Literary Process (Peter Lang GmbH, 2018).

• Editor’s PrefaceIntroduction: Periodization of Georgian LiteratureIrma Ratiani1 Georgian Hagiographic LiteratureIvane Amirkhanashvili2 Georgian HymnographyGocha Kuchukhidze3 Emergence of Georgian Secular LiteratureMaka Elbakidze4 On the Character of Georgian VerseTamar Lomidze5 Georgian Literature in the 16th and 17th CenturiesIrma Ratiani6 Georgian Romanticism: Texts and ContextsGaga Lomidze7 Realism in Georgian LiteratureIrma Ratiani7.1 Ilia Chavchavadze and His ReaderIrma Ratiani7.2 A Few Words on Akaki Tsereteli’s LyricsDavid Tserediani7.3 Alexander Kazbegi: Georgian Tragedian (After the Novel Khevisberi Gocha)Irma Ratiani7.4 Vazha-Phshavela’s PoemsTamaz Vasadze7.5 Vazha-Pshavela on Cosmopolitanism and PatriotismIrma Ratiani8 Origins of Georgian Leftist WritingTamar Tsitsishvili9 Georgian Female Writers of the 19th CenturyTamar Tsitsishvili10 Georgian Modernism: Relocating Georgian CultureBela Tsipuria10.1 The Blue Horns: the Group as ‘a One Poet’Bela Tsipuria10.2 Galaktion Tabidze and SymbolismTeimuraz Doiashvili11 Symbolism and the Avant-Garde in GeorgiaGaga Lomidze12 Soviet Totalitarianism and Georgian LiteratureIrma Ratiani12.1 Mikheil Javakhihsvili: In the Distorted Mirror of TotalitarianismIrma Ratiani12.2 Socialist Realism as a DiscourseMaia Jaliashvili12.3 Georgian Women Writing in the Soviet PeriodNona Kupreishvili13 Formation of Modern Georgian LiteratureIrma Ratiani13.1 The Western Model of Neorealism and Georgian Liberal DiscourseManana Kvachantiradze13.2 Ana KalandadzeZoya Tskhadaia14 Georgian Youth Literature in the 1980sTamar Tsitsishvili and Irine Modebadze15 Post-Soviet Georgian Literature on the Difficult Path of TransformationIrma Ratiani and Bela TsipuriaIndex