Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (1 139 Artikel)

In der Schwellenepoche der frühen Neuzeit bildet das Drama die dominante Gattung. Aufgrund seiner schnellen Produktionsweise und seiner Stellung zwischen Schriftlichkeit und Mündlichkeit, zwischen ...

This book brings a renewed critical focus to the history of novel writing, publishing, selling and reading, expanding its viewing beyond national territories. Relying on primary sources (such as ad...

This volume introduces key concepts for a trans/national expansion in the study of culture. Using translation as an analytical category, it explores what is translatable and untranslatable between ...

Frontmatter -- Introduction: The Third Culture - Negotiating the 'two cultures' -- Theoretical Approaches -- Has Nature a Future? -- Serendipity in Poetry and Physics -- Sense and Nonsense of Chaos...

A Hoot in the Light

By meshing psychology with literary analysis, this book inspires us to view the reading of fictional works as an emotional and seductive affair between reader and writer. Arguing that current teach...

By meshing psychology with literary analysis, this book inspires us to view the reading of fictional works as an emotional and seductive affair between reader and writer. Arguing that current teach...

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 concen...

The Peculiar History and Surprising Legacy of the New Shakspere Society

Prick'd by Charm

This book examines representations of precocity in Victorian textual culture - canonical literature, children's fiction, scientific texts, and writing by children - to argue that precocity challeng...

This book explores the idea that while we see the vampire as a hero of romance, or as a member of an oppressed minority struggling to fit in and acquire legal recognition, the vampire has in many w...

This book explores the idea that while we see the vampire as a hero of romance, or as a member of an oppressed minority struggling to fit in and acquire legal recognition, the vampire has in many w...

Since the late twentieth century, there has been a strategic campaign to recover the impact of Victorian women writers in the field of English literature. However, with the increased understanding ...

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies