Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (191 Artikel)

In 1972, Italo Calvino published , a literary book that masterfully combines philosophy and poetry, rigid structure and free play, theoretical insight and glittering prose. The text is an extended ...

Komisches Schreiben im Nachexil bei Alfred Polgar, Albert Drach und Georg Kreisler

A Critical Companion to Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere"

This open access book examines how the form of the list features as a tool for meaning-making in the genre of detective fiction from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book analyzes ho...

investigates red hair in literature, art, television, and film throughout Eastern and Western cultures. This study examines red hair as a signifier, perpetuated through stereotypes, myths, legends,...

This monograph is a study of the work of British author A. S. Byatt, exploring the cultural representation of the woman intellectual in her fiction. It argues that Byatt's representations of this f...

This book explores the role of alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Hermetic philosophy in one of Shakespeare's last plays, . A perusal of the vast literary and iconographic repertory of Renaissance alchem...

A Critical Companion

Speculative fiction has been traditionally studied in Marxist literary criticism, following Darko Suvin's paradigmatic model of science fiction, according to a hierarchical division of its multiple...

Animals in Detective Fiction

Curious Beasties

Curious Beasties

The Absent Author

Badiou and American Modernist Poetics

Beckett and Politics