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Zaza Shatirishvili
Zaza Shatirishvili (b. 1966) is a literary critic and philosopher. He is a professor at the Tbilisi Shota Rustaveli State Institute of Georgian Literature. Shatirishvili writes on literary theory and culture history and has published more than 70 articles and two books: An Apology for Narrative (Tbilisi: The Centre of Theology and Culture, 2005) (in Georgian); Galaktion Tabidze’s Poetics and Rhetoric: 1919–1927 (Tbilisi: Logos Press, 2004) (in Georgian). His most recent articles include: ‘Fictional Narrative and Allegorical Discourse’ in Der Kommentar in Antike und Mittelalter, 2 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2004), pp.179–83; ‘Romantic Topography and the Dilemma of Empire: The Dialogue of Georgian and Russian Poetry’ (in cooperation with Harsha Ram) in Russian Review, 1 (2004), pp. 1–25.