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Theorizing Literature Literary Theory in Contemporary Novels – and Their Analysis
This book offers an analytical model for the interpretation of theory-informed novels – American, English, French, German, and Italian – from the...
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William Blake's Visions Art, Hallucinations, Synaesthesia
This book is an inquiry into whether what Blake called his ‘visions’ can be attributed to recognizable perceptual phenomena. The conditions...
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Perception, Class and Environment in the Works of Thomas Hardy
This book examines Thomas Hardy’s writing in both prose and poetry, focusing on issues of perception, ‘being’, class and environment. It illustrates...
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Sacrifice as a Narrative Strategy in May Sinclair, Mary Butts, and H. D.
This book explores sacrifice as a narrative theme and a stylistic strategy in works by May Sinclair, Mary Butts and H. D. It argues that the...
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Indigenous and Transcultural Narratives in Québec Ways of Belonging
This book focuses on modes of cultural belonging in Québec. It looks at recent literary memoir, autobiographical fiction, and documentary...
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Drafty Houses in Forster, Eliot and Woolf Spatiality and Cultural Politics
This book argues that E. M. Forster, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf engaged sustainedly with real and imagined places as sites of counter-cultural...
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German-Language Nature Writing from Eighteenth Century to the Present Controversies, Positions, Perspectives
This volume examines the topic of German-language nature writing in a broad historical context spanning more than two centuries. It brings together...
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The Politics of Literary History Literary Historiography in Russia, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Finland after 1990
This book looks at literary historiography in Russia, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Finland, focusing on how seismic shifts in state politics and...
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Gottfried Keller – Spielräume der Phantasie
Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge zeigen Keller als einzigartigen Erzähler, richten den Blick auf Texte aus dem Nachlass, gehen seinen Träumen...
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Franz Kafkas literarisches Umfeld in Prag 14 Portraits von Oskar Baum bis Franz Werfel
Franz Kafka pflegte zu Lebzeiten intensive gesellige und intellektuelle Kontakte, die teils mit bekannten Namen verbunden, teils nahezu vergessen...
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Heine-Jahrbuch 2023
2023 erscheint der 62. Jahrgang des Heine-Jahrbuchs. Er versammelt die Beiträge des internationalen Symposiums „Heinrich Heine und die...
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Der deutschsprachige Thriller Entwicklung und Ausformungen eines populären Genres
Dieses Buch bietet einen ersten wissenschaftlichen Überblick über einen bislang vernachlässigten Bereich der deutschsprachigen Kriminalliteratur, der...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Transnational Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century
This handbook explores the rich and as yet understudied field of women’s writing during the nation-building years that characterized the global...
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The Precocious Child in Victorian Literature and Culture Development and Selfhood from Darwin to Freud
This book examines representations of precocity in Victorian textual culture – canonical literature, children’s fiction, scientific texts, and...
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Fundamentals of Literary Theory
This monograph offers new insights into the fundamentals of literary theory. It synthesizes and evaluates research from recent decades, critically...
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Semi-Peripheral Realism Nation and Form on the Borders of Europe
This book explores the geopolitical and symbolic borders of Europe through the concept of the semi-periphery. Focusing on the North Atlantic island...
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Same-Sex Desire and the Environment in Norwegian Literature, 1908–1979
This book explores how ideas of nature and the nonhuman play an important part in literary depictions of same-sex desire in twentieth-century...
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Jelinek-Handbuch
Das Handbuch umfasst Biografisches, künstlerische Kontexte, das feministische und politische Engagement der Autorin, ihre ästhetischen Strategien und...
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Frankreich. Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft, Politik, Kultur, Mentalitäten Eine landeskundliche Einführung
Das weitere Erstarken rechter Parteien und die Corona-Pandemie haben zu politischen und wirtschaftlichen Konflikten in Frankreich geführt. Doch was...
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Meisterwerke der europäischen Literatur – Von Aristophanes bis Dürrenmatt Hannoveraner Vorlesungen
Den Charakter eines literarischen Textes zu ergründen, die Intentionen eines Dichters zu entschlüsseln und die Entwicklung eines sujets durch die...