Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (160 Artikel)

Literary Pragma-Stylistics

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

Popschreibweisen seit 2000

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

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

The Seductive Hierarchies of Empire

Curious Beasties

Curious Beasties

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Arts and Technology, ArtsIT 2014, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in November 2014. The 17 revised full...

Two of the most notable figures from the Middle Ages-the volatile, brilliant Abelard and the equally brilliant Heloise-became the parents of their son Astralabe before Abelard's infamous, brutal ca...

Badiou and American Modernist Poetics

Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism

New Evidence from Lexomic Analysis

New Evidence from Lexomic Analysis

British Romantic Literature and the Emerging Modern Greek Nation

A Broader View of Nineteenth-Century French

Cognition, Mindreading, and Shakespeare's Characters

Kristeva, Adorno, Rancière

Computational Musicology in Hindustani Music

'Into the Light'

Contemporary French Environmental Thought in the Post-COVID-19 Era

STL, Objektfabriken, Exceptions

evaluates Bowie's music, film, drama, and personae alongside eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poets, novelists, and artists. These chapters expand our understanding of both the literature studied...

Decolonising English Studies from the Semi-Periphery

Studies in Comparative Literature and Translation

Der Wert der literarischen Zirkulation / The Value of Literary Circulation

This book assesses key works of twentieth-century dystopian fiction, including Katharine Burdekin's , George Orwell's  , and Margaret Atwood's  , to demonstrate that the major authors of this genre...

This book establishes the genealogy of a subgenre of crime fiction that Antoine Dechêne calls the metacognitive mystery tale. It delineates a corpus of texts presenting 'unreadable' mysteries which...

Digital Techniques for Heritage Presentation and Preservation

Writing Home

The book examines prominent literary works from the past two decades by Russian women writers dealing with the Soviet past. It explores works such as   by Ludmilla Ulitskaya, The Time of Women by E...

Disability Studies as Critical Creative Narrative

Drugs and the Addiction Aesthetic in Nineteenth-Century Literature

This book is an exploration of the viability of applying the post structuralist theory of intertextuality to early modern texts. It suggests that a return to a more theorised understanding of inter...

Echo and Meaning on Early Modern English Stages

Echo and Meaning on Early Modern English Stages

Edmund Spenser and Animal Life

This book contributes to the literary history of eighteenth-century women's life writings, particularly those labeled "scandalous memoirs." It examines how the evolution of this subgenre was shaped...

This book contributes to the literary history of eighteenth-century women's life writings, particularly those labeled "scandalous memoirs." It examines how the evolution of this subgenre was shaped...

This book is notable for bringing together humanist schooling and familial instruction under the banner of emotions and for studying seminal works of early modern literature within this new analyti...

This book looks at a cohort of poets who studied at University College Cork during the 1970s and early 1980s. Based on extensive interviews and archival work, the book examines the notion that the ...

Ethical Futures and Global Science Fiction

Reading (Beyond) the American South

This book explores how writers responded to the rise of the newspaper over the course of the nineteenth century. Taking as its subject the ceaseless intertwining of fiction and journalism at this t...

Cast-Iron Man

This book is a study of gender and place in twentieth-century Chicana/o literature and culture, covering the early period of regional writing to contemporary art. Remapping Chicana/o literary and c...

God and Self in the Confessional Novel

Uncanny Otherness and the Animal With-Out

This book is about the ways that Gothic literature has been transformed since the 18th century across cultures and across genres. In a series of essays written by scholars in the field, the book fo...

1800-Present

The Presence of the Past in Twenty-First Century English Literature

Heine-Jahrbuch 2023

Die Untersuchung des letzten großen Gedichtzyklus von Heinrich Heine, des ,,Romanzero", legt mythische Denkstrukturen frei, die nach einschlägigen Mythostheorien (Blumenberg, Eliade) eine ordnende ...

Mit dieser Edition von Kleists Handschrift »Der zerbrochne Krug« wird eine textgenetische Darstellung vorgelegt, die Kleists zahlreiche, teilweise komplexen Textänderungen en detail rekonstruiert. ...

Human Contradictions in Octavia E. Butler's Work

Analysen und Bibliographien

Royal Traitor, Heroic Lamb

This book is about Victorian women's representations of colonial life in India. These accounts contributed to imperial rule by exemplifying an idealized middle-class femininity and attesting to the...

1825-1855

This collection of essays offers new perspectives from Japan on Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro. It analyses the Japanese-born British author from the vantage point of his birthplace, sho...

John Clare's Romanticism

National Territory, National Literature

This study is supported by close readings of selected novels exemplifying the subtle variety of ways she deploys music, sounds and silence in her fiction. It also covers Murdoch's knowledge of musi...

Voices of the Depression in the American Postwar Era

Voices of the Depression in the American Postwar Era

This book examines one work dealing with madness from each of five prominent authors. Including discussion of Fowles, Hamsun, Hesse, Kafka, and Poe, it delineates the specific type of madness the a...

Marlene Streeruwitz ist eine der streitbarsten politischen Autor*innen der Gegenwart. Literatur ist ihr nicht nur politisches Instrument, sondern als »Modell der Welt in Sprache« zugleich auch ästh...

Maternal Abandonment and Queer Resistance in Twenty-First-Century Swedish Literature

Memory and Confession in Middle English Literature

Memory and Confession in Middle English Literature

draws from various disciplines--such as geography, sociology, political science, gender studies, and poststructuralist thought--to posit the productive capabilities of literature in political actio...

This book reappraises the philosophical value of short fiction by Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Bowen, examining the stories through the lens of specific everyday objects. Looki...

Literary Representations of Communication and Transportation Technologies

Literary Representations of Communication and Transportation Technologies

Literature and Culture Studies

considers the concept of nationalism from 1780 to 2020 through anthems and national songs as symbolic and representative elements of the national identity of individuals, peoples, or collectivities...

Determined Negations

Determined Negations

Studies in Word and Image

formalism, Tate illuminates a nineteenth-century preoccupation with dynamic patterning empirical fact and speculative theory rather than their antagonism. The

examines an understudied corpus of memoirs in English, French, and German stemming from the unprecedented involvement of women in the war effort. Jerry Palmer considers the memoirs in relationship ...

examines an understudied corpus of memoirs in English, French, and German stemming from the unprecedented involvement of women in the war effort. Jerry Palmer considers the memoirs in relationship ...

Beauty and Truth in the Major Poems

Beauty and Truth in the Major Poems

International Films, Television, and Theatre

Pedagogical Stylistics in the 21st Century

Pedagogical Stylistics in the 21st Century

Plurality and the Poetics of Self

This creative yet scholarly book discusses prose's important relationship to close literary analysis, showing how such an approach can be beneficial for readers, scholars, and writers alike. Bringi...

This creative yet scholarly book discusses prose's important relationship to close literary analysis, showing how such an approach can be beneficial for readers, scholars, and writers alike. Bringi...

This book offers a radical new theory of the role of poetry in the rise of cultural nationalism. With equal attention to England, Scotland, and Wales, the book takes an Archipelagic approach to the...

This study discusses the representation of class in poetry in English from Britain and Ireland between the fourteenth and twenty-first centuries, and the effect of class on the production, dissemin...

Interruption to a Journey

Work in Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Poetry

On Catastrophic Realism

Posthuman Capital and Biotechnology in Contemporary Novels

Posthuman Capital and Biotechnology in Contemporary Novels