Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies - Dil, Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi aims to provide a forum for exploring issues in basicly literature, art, culture and to publish theoretical and/or critical articles.

Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies - Dil, Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, which is the official publication of Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Western Languages is an open access, peer-reviewed, multilingual, scholarly and international journal published online two times a year in June and December. It was founded in 1954.

The journal's scope is literature, art and culture. Multidisciplinary approaches that focus on or include discussions of Western literatures and cultures are encouraged. The target group of the Journal consists of academicians, researchers, professionals, students, related professional and academic bodies and institutions. 

Litera does not consider duplicate publication and/or partial reuse of theses, dissertations, and previously published conference papers for evaluation/publication, reuse is not allowed.

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