Comparative literature

One of the most contentious questions in contemporary literary studies is whether there can ever be a science of literature that can lay claim to objectivity and universality, for example by concentrating on philological criticism, by appealing to cognitive science, or by exposing the underlying media of literary communication.

This book explores one of the central questions that has haunted husbands and wives and lovers over the millennia of history: What kind of afterlife might they expect for their love once one or both of them have died?

Recent developments in cognitive narrative theory have called attention to readers' active participation in making sense of narrative.

By the early middle ages vernacular aristocratic traditions of heroic narration were firmly established in Western and Northern Europe.

Recent developments in cognitive narrative theory have called attention to readers' active participation in making sense of narrative.

By the early middle ages vernacular aristocratic traditions of heroic narration were firmly established in Western and Northern Europe.

One of the most contentious questions in contemporary literary studies is whether there can ever be a science of literature that can lay claim to objectivity and universality, for example by concentrating on philological criticism, by appealing to cognitive science, or by exposing the underlying media of literary communication.

Magic realism has become a significant mode of expression in Jewish cultural production.

The contributors to the present volume examine, from a wide variety of perspectives, the issues of war and peace in the Middle Ages and early modern time, probing the direction of the relevant discourse regarding the legitimacy and justification of military operations.

Medieval literature is to a large degree shaped by orality, not only with regard to performance, but also to transmission and composition.

Script and writing were among the most important inventions in human history, and until the invention of printing, the handwritten book was the primary medium of literary and cultural transmission.

In recent years, the study of unnatural narratives has become an exciting new but still disparate research program in narrative theory.

Theorie und Praxis der mittelalterlichen Poetik bilden seit fast vier Jahrzehnten ein zentrales Forschungsgebiet von Fritz Peter Knapp.