Literary Studies: General

Examines the effect of prescribed multilingualism as expressed by women writers in colonial contexts What does it mean to be an heir, as a woman wr...

In Erosion, Gina Caison traces how American authors and photographers have grappled with soil erosion as a material reality that shapes narratives ...

We are living in times when populism, war and climate change are all sources of anxiety caused by overlapping crises. Anxiety is a phenomenon that ...

This volume looks to core ideas defining Goethes work and his influence on his contemporaries and inheritors. Contributions to this volume explore ...

This volume consists consists of forty contributions written by an internationally renowned selection of scholars. The authors adopt an interdiscip...

The Göttinger Forum was founded in 1998 as a free, electronic publication and alternative to conventional journals. The GFA contains multi-discipli...

Medieval literature is to a large extent based on oral tradition and permeated by various forms of orality: literary texts were commonly read aloud...

With its new subtitle, Romance Literatures of the World, the book series mimesis presents an innovative and integral understanding of the Romance w...

Gottfried Kellers Welten erscheint als dritter Band der Serie Gottfried Kellers Moderne. Kellers Jahrhundert ist das der Industrialisierung, des Im...

Fictional novelists and other author characters have been a staple of novels and stories from the early nineteenth century onwards. What is it that...

The contributions gathered in this volume revisit the two centuries that have elapsed since Central America's independence in 1821. This highly co...

Kellers Wissen erscheint als vierter Band der Serie Gottfried Kellers Moderne. Kellers Texte akkumulieren, transformieren und generieren Wissen. Se...

Zeitungsnachrufe sind Gelegenheitstexte, die anlässlich von Sterbefällen und Todestagen entstehen. Wen würdigt der Abschieds-Journalismus mit solc...

Gerade in Krisenmomenten treten kleine Formen und Formate in stabilisierender oder mobilisierender Funktion auf. In der Zwischenkriegszeit erschein...

Die Deutschen Gesellschaften waren eine Sozietätsbewegung, die von den mitteldeutschen und protestantischen Universitäten und Gelehrtenschulen ausg...

Das Buch widmet sich der Frage, weshalb Krankheitserfahrungen in der frühneuzeitlichen Lyrik zwischen 1490 und 1720 eine beispiellose Prominenz ent...

Ausgehend von der Beobachtung, dass die Architektur des Nibelungenlieds zwar inhaltlich fest, doch sprachlich sehr variant ist, ordnet vorliegende ...

Der Baumgarten des höfischen Romans ist kein beliebiger, topischer Schauplatz. Als Schwellenraum besitzt er ein spezifisches Handlungs- und Konflik...

Speculative Epistemologies is about truth effects in sf, which stands for both science fiction and speculative fiction. It examines six narratives,...

Welchen Stellenwert haben Texte in verschiedenen Kulturen? Dieser Frage nähert sich der vorliegende Band von verschiedenen Seiten. Beginnend mit d...

Mario Vargas Llosas intellectual transformations, from socialism to pragmatism, and liberalism, are reflected in his political and historical ficti...

The discovery of the fifteenth-century codex Vlatadon 14 in 2005 was an extraordinary moment for scholars of Graeco Roman antiquity, as it brought ...

What is there to see in invisible artworks, empty books, or blank screens? How do formal absences generate meaning? Constructing an argument by wa...

This is a fully revised new edition of Michael Ewans 1995 English translation of the Oresteia, taking into account the extensive work published on ...