Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Comparative Literature

Modernist thinkers once presumed a progressive secularity, with the novel replacing religious texts as society s moral epics. Yet religion beginning with the Iranian revolution of 1979, through the collapse of communism, and culminating in the singular rupture of September 11, 2001 has not retreated quietly out of sight.

In Fiction Beyond Secularism, Justin Neuman argues that contemporary novelists who are most commonly identified as antireligious among them Orhan Pamuk, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Margaret Atwood, Nadine Gordimer, Haruki Murakami, and J. M. Coetzee have...

Die kulturellen Phanomene des europaischen Mittelalters, die die Dimensionen der Barlaam und Josaphat-Legende erreichen konnten, sind selten. Der hier vorgelegte Band umfasst Beitrage zu verschiedenen Aspekten dieses Phanomens sowie eine bislang unedierte lateinische Fassung.
Aufgrund des interdisziplinaren Charakters der Publikation richtet sie sich an Germanisten, Romanisten, Mittellatinisten, Byzantinisten und Kunsthistoriker.

Konrad Fleck s romance Floris and Blancheflour (c. 1200) has only been previously available in 19th century editions. This volume presents a new critical edition based on all existing sources, partially reproduced for the reader. The research portion includes a history of the work s transmission, its literary history, and comparative analyses that newly situate the story in Medieval German literature as well as European narrative tradition.

Mariano Siskind s groundbreaking debut book redefines the scope of world literature, particularly regarding the place of Latin America in its imaginaries and mappings. In Siskind s formulation, world literature is a modernizing discursive strategy, a way in which cultures negotiate their aspirations to participate in global networks of cultural exchange, and an original tool to reorganize literary history. Working with novels, poems, essays, travel narratives, and historical documents, Siskind reads the way Latin American literary modernity was produced as a global relation, from the rise...

The twenty-seven original contributions to this volume investigate the ways in which the First World War has been commemorated and represented internationally in prose fiction, drama, film, docudrama and comics from the 1960s until the present. The volume thus provides a comprehensive survey of the cultural memory of the war as reflected in various media across national cultures, addressing the complex connections between the cultural post-memory of the war and its mediation. In four sections, the essays investigate (1) the cultural legacy of the Great War (including its mythology and...

To metaphorize the world as a theatre has been a common procedure since antiquity, but the use of this trope became particularly prominent and pregnant in early modern times, especially in England. Old and new applications of the "theatrum mundi" topos pervaded discourses, often allegorizing the deceitfulness and impermanence of this world as well as the futility of earthly strife. It was frequently woven into arguments against worldly amusements such as the stage: Commercial theatre was declared an undesirable competitor of God's well-ordered world drama.

Early modern dramatists...

Die Bibliographie will die Forschungen zu den internationalen Zusammenhangen der Gegenwartslyrik unterstutzen. Das ursprunglich literarhistorische, vor allem rezeptionsgeschichtliche Sammelinteresse wurde im Laufe der Arbeit erweitert um andere komparatistische Fragestellungen, die eine weite Auslegung des Ausdrucks 'literarische Beziehungen' erfordern, von verschiedenen Aspekten der Intertextualitat, des typologischen Vergleichs, der Vermittlung, der Ubersetzung bis zu methodologischen und literaturpolitischen Fragen. Das Buch versteht sich als Erganzung zu "Europaische und...