Comparative literature

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.

Die Arbeit untersucht die volkssprachliche Entwicklung des Philomela-Mythos vom 12.

Friedrich Nietzsche hat zahlreiche Schriftsteller der klassischen Moderne fasziniert.

Written at the crossroads of aesthetics and politics, Reproducing Enlightenment: Paradoxes of the Body Politic interrogates the abstraction of the bearer of rights in Enlightenment thought by exploring contradictions between reproductive labor and political representation in the ideal of democratic citizenship.

The first volume of the new series "e;European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies"e; focuses on the relation between the avant-garde, modernism and Europe.

This book analyzes and contextualizes Auerbach's life and mind in the wide ideological, philological, and historical context of his time, especially the rise of Aryan philology and its eventual triumph with the Nazi Revolution or the Hitler Revolution in Germany of 1933.

Die Geschichte von Amicus und Amelius wurde vom späten 11.

Im Rahmen seines Kulturprogrammes und der Europäisierung des norwegischen Königshofes ließ König Hákon Hákonarson (geb.

"e;Reframing Postcolonial Studies addresses the urgent issues that Black Lives Matter has raised with respect to everyday material practices and the frameworks in which our knowledge and cultural heritage are conceptualized and stored.

Sexuality is one of the most influential factors in human life.

This volume deals with the occurrence and development of unreliable first-person narration in twentieth century Western literature.

Since Jacob Burckhardt's Kultur der Renaissance in Italien (1869) rhetoric as a significant cultural factor of the renaissance has largely been neglected.

Ausgehend von Goethes Gedicht Die Liebesgötter auf dem Markte, das 1796 in Voss' Musen-Almanach erschien und später unter dem Titel Wer kauft Liebesgötter?

Commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of Paul Gilroy's seminal text, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, this book offers fresh interpretations of established black Atlantic scholarship from the perspective of those typically elided from its ideological purview and existential narrative.

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?

Grenzen, ihre Uberschreitung, ihre Auflosung und ihre Wiederherstellung sind ein bisher nicht systematisch erforschtes Schlusselkonzept fur das Verstandnis romantischer Literatur.

Eberhard Lämmert: Einführung Eckart Goebel: Stationen der Erzählforschung in der Literaturwissenschaft Hilmar Frank / Tanja Frank: Zur Erzählforschung in der Kunstwissenschaft Peter Diezel: Narrativik und die Polyphonie des Theaters Jörg Schweinitz: Zur Erzählforschung in der Filmwissenschaft Janina Klassen: Was die Musik erzählt Gregor Gumpert: Erfahrung eines Augenblicks.

Wozu vergleichen - und was überhaupt?

Troja zählt zu den bekanntesten Mythen Europas.

The idea for this study came to me in the course of my reading of innova- tive US-American!