Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (330 Artikel)

Komisches Schreiben im Nachexil bei Alfred Polgar, Albert Drach und Georg Kreisler

Schriftstellerinnen der Romantik

Imagining What We Know, 1800-1850

This open access book examines how the form of the list features as a tool for meaning-making in the genre of detective fiction from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book analyzes ho...

The Gift, the Wager, and Poethics

This monograph is a study of the work of British author A. S. Byatt, exploring the cultural representation of the woman intellectual in her fiction. It argues that Byatt's representations of this f...

Modern Types and Classical Archetypes

Afterlives of the Lady of Shalott and Elaine of Astolat

Afterlives of the Lady of Shalott and Elaine of Astolat

examines Christie's female poisoners in the context of Christie's own experience in pharmacy and of detective fiction. In doing so, it uncovers an overlooked dynamic in which female poisoners deliv...

This book analyses how the three books of visions by Hildegard of Bingen use the allegorical vision as a form of knowledge. It describes how the visionary's use of allegory and allegorical exegesis...

Mapping the Gothic

explores the many ways in which literature and film have engaged with the subject of amputation. The scholars featured in this volume draw upon a wide variety of texts, both lesser-known and canoni...

The Seductive Hierarchies of Empire

The Seductive Hierarchies of Empire