Comparative literature

Symbolic representation is a crucial subject for and a potent heuristic instrument of diaspora studies.

This book examines the striking resurgence of the literary letter at the end of the long twentieth century.

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.

To metaphorize the world as a theatre has been a common procedure since antiquity, but the use of this trope became particularly prominent and pregnant in early modern times, especially in England.

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.

To metaphorize the world as a theatre has been a common procedure since antiquity, but the use of this trope became particularly prominent and pregnant in early modern times, especially in England.

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.

This book examines disease in the context of gender discrimination.

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.

Recent postclassical narratology has constructed top-down reading models that often remain blind to the frame-breaking potential of individual literary narratives.