Comparative literature

Der vorliegende dreisprachige Band konzentriert sich auf Akte des transgressiven Handelns/Schreibens in ausgewahlten Texten europaischer Literaturen, deren Autoren sich durch Geschlecht, Nationalitat und Zeitrahmen unterscheiden.

Die vorliegenden Untersuchungen beantworten die Frage, wann sich einem fiktionalen Text eine ›Moral‹ zuschreiben lässt.

Dem sentimentalen Roman haftet wie keiner anderen Gattung das Vorurteil der trivialen Schwärmerei an, die sich vermeintlich besonders unter Frauen ausbreitet.

Im Mittelpunkt des vorliegenden Bandes steht das höchst aktuelle und mit dem Zeitgeist räsonierende Problem der Grenze, das grundsätzlich aus einer literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Perspektive untersucht wird.

 This book explores how Chicana literature often represents gender violence while simultaneously presenting strategies of survival in response.

Wie reist man heute in historische Räume wie Galizien und vor allem wozu?

Vor allem in den Fabliaux und in den Mären, aber auch in Giovanni Boccaccios Decameron, fiel schon früh die Präsenz des Grotesken auf, das sich vor allem in entfesselter Gewalt, sexueller Triebhaftigkeit und Verhöhnung geistlicher Institutionen äußert.

Vor allem in den Fabliaux und in den Mären, aber auch in Giovanni Boccaccios Decameron, fiel schon früh die Präsenz des Grotesken auf, das sich vor allem in entfesselter Gewalt, sexueller Triebhaftigkeit und Verhöhnung geistlicher Institutionen äußert.

Heroic Girls looks at the recent proliferation of young girl heroes in many recent mainstream films and books.

This book explores the role of radical ideas in contemporary fiction by nine critically acclaimed authors--Jonathan Lethem, Dana Spiotta, China Mieville, Thomas Pynchon, Rachel Kushner, Teddy Wayne, Colson Whitehead, Jacqueline Woodson, and Kim Stanley Robinson.

This volume offers new perspectives on knowledge production through various forms of togetherness.

Heroic Girls looks at the recent proliferation of young girl heroes in many recent mainstream films and books.

Die 'Ausgewählten Werke' von Hermann Bahr bieten einen faszinierenden Einblick in das Schaffen eines der bedeutendsten Schriftsteller des Wiener Fin de Siècle.

This is the first volume to consistently examine Soviet engagement with world literature from multiple institutional and disciplinary perspectives: intellectual history, literary history and theory, comparative literature, translation studies, diaspora studies.

The idea of metatextuality is frequently framed as a recent television development and often paired with the idea that it represents genre exhaustion.

Brazil and France have explored each other's geographical and cultural landscapes for more than five hundred years.

This multinational, multidisciplinary collection of essays focuses on Hallmark Channel movies and Hallmark's position in the changing North American media landscape.

This multinational, multidisciplinary collection of essays focuses on Hallmark Channel movies and Hallmark's position in the changing North American media landscape.

This accessible guide through audience studies' histories outlines a contemporary Cultural Studies approach to audiences for the digital age.

Christian poetry was born at the crossroads of the Greek, Hebrew, Roman, and Syrian cultures of late antiquity.

What is love for Sartre and Lacan?

This accessible guide through audience studies' histories outlines a contemporary Cultural Studies approach to audiences for the digital age.

This is thefirst-ever English language anthology of zenithism, an eclectic avant-gardemovement unique to the Yugoslav region that existed 1921 1927.

What is love for Sartre and Lacan?

Music, Words and Nationalism: National Anthems and Songs in the Modern Era 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.

This volume examines a selection of life writing in English by authors from the South West Indian Ocean, namely South Africa, East Africa, Mauritius and Sri Lanka.

This collection of essays reappraises the contributions made by modernist movements from regions generally regarded as peripheral or semi-peripheral to a global aesthetic of Modernism.

Music has always been a universal language that transcends borders and connects people from different cultures.

Music, Words and Nationalism: National Anthems and Songs in the Modern Era 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.

This volume examines a selection of life writing in English by authors from the South West Indian Ocean, namely South Africa, East Africa, Mauritius and Sri Lanka.

This collection of essays reappraises the contributions made by modernist movements from regions generally regarded as peripheral or semi-peripheral to a global aesthetic of Modernism.

This collection of essays offers new perspectives from Japan on Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro.

This collection of essays offers new perspectives from Japan on Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro.

Women's Health in Britain and America: Texts and Contexts offers an unparalleled record of women's health in the United Kingdom and the United States since 1750.

Bei Günter Grass erhalten Märchen und Sagen einen neuen Resonanzraum und entfalten ihr erzählerisches Potenzial an der Geschichte des 20.

This book is inspired by the authors work as part of a major international and interdisciplinary research group at the University of Konstanz, Germany: What IfOn the Meaning, Relevance, and Epistemology of Counterfactual Claims and Thought Experiments.

This is the first volume to consistently examine Soviet engagement with world literature from multiple institutional and disciplinary perspectives: intellectual history, literary history and theory, comparative literature, translation studies, diaspora studies.

The essays in this collection address the German television series Babylon Berlin and explore its unique contribution to contemporary visual culture.