SubjectsLiterature & Literary Studies / Comparative literature & literary studies
Book series
ISSN 0238-0668
Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature
Edited by Hans Bertens, Douwe W. Fokkema †, Harald Hendrix, Joost J. Kloek, Sophie Levie and Ann Rigney
ISSN 0167-8175
Yearbook
Reinardus
Yearbook of the International Reynard Society
Edited by Richard Trachsler and Baudouin Van den Abeele
ISSN 0925-4757 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9951
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 37 (2025)
Edited by Richard Trachsler, Baudouin Van den Abeele and Catalina Girbea
[Reinardus, 37] 2025. iv, 208 pp.
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 36 (2024)
Edited by Richard Trachsler and Baudouin Van den Abeele
[Reinardus, 36] 2024. iv, 321 pp.
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 35 (2023)
Edited by Richard Trachsler and Baudouin Van den Abeele
[Reinardus, 35] 2023. iv, 240 pp.
Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives. Volume II: Pathways through realism
Edited by Svend Erik Larsen, Steen Bille Jørgensen and Margaret R. Higonnet
Few literary phenomena are as elusive and yet as persistent as realism. While it responds to the perennial impulse to use literature to reflect on experience, it also designates a specific set of literary and artistic practices that emerged in response to Western modernity. Landscapes of Realism is… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXXIII] 2022. xv, 780 pp.
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 34 (2022)
Edited by Richard Trachsler and Baudouin Van den Abeele
[Reinardus, 34] 2022. iv, 197 pp.
Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives. Volume I: Mapping realism
Edited by Dirk Göttsche, Rosa Mucignat and Robert Weninger
Few literary phenomena are as elusive and yet as persistent as realism. While it responds to the perennial impulse to use literature to reflect on experience, it also designates a specific set of literary and artistic practices that emerged in response to Western modernity. Landscapes of Realism is… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXXII] 2021. xvii, 814 pp.
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 33 (2021)
Edited by Richard Trachsler and Baudouin Van den Abeele
[Reinardus, 33] 2021. iii, 167 pp.
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 32 (2020)
Edited by Richard Trachsler and Baudouin Van den Abeele
[Reinardus, 32] 2020. iv, 212 pp.
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 31 (2019)
Edited by Richard Trachsler and Baudouin Van den Abeele
Reinardus is an international, peer-reviewed journal, which aims to promote comparative research in the fields of medieval comic, satirical, didactic, and allegorical literature, with emphasis on beast epic, fable and fabliau, including sources, influences and later developments into the modern… read more[Reinardus, 31] 2019. iv, 273 pp.
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 30 (2018)
Edited by Richard Trachsler and Baudouin Van den Abeele
Reinardus is an international, peer-reviewed journal, which aims to promote comparative research in the fields of medieval comic, satirical, didactic, and allegorical literature, with emphasis on beast epic, fable and fabliau, including sources, influences and later developments into the modern… read more[Reinardus, 30] 2018. v, 262 pp.
L'Époque de la Renaissance (1400–1600): Tome II: La nouvelle culture (1480–1520)
Sous la direction de Eva Kushner
La nouvelle culture (1480-1520) vient compléter la sous-série Renaissance de l’ « Histoire comparée des littératures de langues européennes », ce qui ne nuit en rien à sa vocation unique; car les quarante années, son objet, englobent un extraordinaire ensemble de développements culturels répondant… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXX] 2017. viii, 544 pp.
Nordic Literature: A comparative history. Volume I: Spatial nodes
Edited by Steven P. Sondrup, Mark B. Sandberg, Thomas A. DuBois and Dan Ringgaard
Nordic Literature: A comparative history is a multi-volume comparative analysis of the literature of the Nordic region. Bringing together the literature of Finland, continental Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Sápmi), and the insular region (Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands), each… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXXI] 2017. xvi, 747 pp.
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 29 (2017)
Edited by Richard Trachsler and Baudouin Van den Abeele
Addendum to vol. 29 (2017)Cover illustration: Marginal miniature by Nikolaus Glockendon in the “Festevangelistar” of Michelfeld Abbey, 1515-1520 (Nürnberg, Stadtbibliothek, Solg. Ms. 9. 2°, f. 18). Copyright Stadtbibliothek Nürnberg.
read more[Reinardus, 29] 2017. iii, 284 pp.
A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula: Volume II
Edited by César Domínguez, Anxo Abuín González and Ellen Sapega
Volume 2 of A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula brings to an end this collective work that aims at surveying the network of interliterary relations in the Iberian Peninsula. No attempt at such a comparative history of literatures in the Iberian Peninsula has been made… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXIX] 2016. xiii, 765 pp.
The Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula series: 2 vols. set
In 1935 the Portuguese scholar Fidelino de Figueiredo published the book Pyrene as based in his lectures at Columbia University in 1931. In it, Figuereido makes use of the beautiful myth of Pyrene, a lover of Hercules, who created a tomb for her by piling up rocks, thus creating the mountain range… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, CHLIPS:SET] 2016. 1514 pp.
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 28 (2016)
Edited by Richard Trachsler and Baudouin Van den Abeele
[Reinardus, 28] 2016. v, 185 pp.
Aproximació a l'altre / An approach to the other: Biografies, semblances i retrats / Biographies, resemblances and portraits
Edited by Enric Balaguer, Maria Jesús Francés and Vicent Vidal
The different contributions included in this volume deal with aspects of biographical writing and other similar genres (semblances, portraits, etc.). These articles analyze theoretical and generic questions as well as some of the most relevant examples of the genre – with a focus on those written… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 11] 2015. xviii, 162 pp.
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 27 (2015)
Edited by Richard Trachsler and Baudouin Van den Abeele
[Reinardus, 27] 2015. viii, 262 pp.
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 26 (2014)
Edited by Richard Trachsler and Baudouin Van den Abeele
[Reinardus, 26] 2014. vi, 224 pp.
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 25 (2013)
Edited by Richard Trachsler, Baudouin Van den Abeele and Paul Wackers
Reinardus aims to promote comparative research in the fields of medieval comic, satirical, didactic, and allegorical literature, with emphasis on beast epic, fable and fabliau, including sources, influences and later developments into the modern period. The methods and critical interpretations it… read more[Reinardus, 25] 2013. v, 174 pp.
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 24 (2012)
Edited by Richard Trachsler, Baudouin Van den Abeele and Paul Wackers
Reinardus aims to promote comparative research in the fields of medieval comic, satirical, didactic, and allegorical literature, with emphasis on beast epic, fable and fabliau, including sources, influences and later developments into the modern period. The methods and critical interpretations it… read more[Reinardus, 24] 2012. vi, 259 pp.
L'Époque de la Renaissance (1400–1600): Tome III: maturations et mutations (1520–1560)
Sous la direction de Eva Kushner
Au sein de la vaste entreprise qu'est l'Histoire comparée des littératures de langues européennes, la sous-série portant sur la Renaissance, dont fait partie le volume que voici, représente à plusieurs égards une gageure novatrice. La Renaissance a souvent et abondamment été étudiée comme… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXVI] 2011. ix, 636 pp.
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 23 (2011)
Edited by Richard Trachsler, Baudouin Van den Abeele and Paul Wackers
Reinardus aims to promote comparative research in the fields of medieval comic, satirical, didactic, and allegorical literature, with emphasis on beast epic, fable and fabliau, including sources, influences and later developments into the modern period. The methods and critical interpretations it… read more[Reinardus, 23] 2011. vi, 218 pp.
A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula: Volume I
Edited by Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza, Anxo Abuín González and César Domínguez
A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula is the second comparative history of a new subseries with a regional focus, published by the Coordinating Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association. As its predecessor for East-Central Europe, this two-volume… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXIV] 2010. xiv, 750 pp.
History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume IV: Types and stereotypes
Edited by Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer
Types and stereotypes is the fourth and last volume of a path-breaking multinational literary history that incorporates innovative features relevant to the writing of literary history in general. Instead of offering a traditional chronological narrative of the period 1800-1989, the History of the… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXV] 2010. xi, 714 pp.
The Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe series: 4 vols. set
The four-volume History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe is the first transnational study of a complex region that is conceived here as a strip of land between the German and Russian hegemonic cultures, stretching from the Baltic Countries to Bulgaria and Albania and from the Ukraine… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, LIT:SET] 2010.
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 22 (2010)
Edited by Baudouin Van den Abeele and Paul Wackers
Reinardus aims to promote comparative research in the fields of medieval comic, satirical, didactic, and allegorical literature, with emphasis on beast epic, fable and fabliau, including sources, influences and later developments into the modern period. The methods and critical interpretations it… read more[Reinardus, 22] 2010. iv, 207 pp.
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 21 (2009)
Edited by Baudouin Van den Abeele and Paul Wackers
Reinardus aims to promote comparative research in the fields of medieval comic, satirical, didactic, and allegorical literature, with emphasis on beast epic, fable and fabliau, including sources, influences and later developments into the modern period. The methods and critical interpretations it… read more[Reinardus, 21] 2009. iv, 220 pp.
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 20 (2007/2008)
Edited by Baudouin Van den Abeele and Paul Wackers
Reinardus aims to promote comparative research in the fields of medieval comic, satirical, didactic, and allegorical literature, with emphasis on beast epic, fable and fabliau, including sources, influences and later developments into the modern period. The methods and critical interpretations it… read more[Reinardus, 20] 2008. 200 pp.
Romantic Prose Fiction
Edited by Gerald Gillespie, Manfred Engel and Bernard Dieterle
In this volume a team of three dozen international experts presents a fresh picture of literary prose fiction in the Romantic age seen from cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspectives. The work treats the appearance of major themes in characteristically Romantic versions, the power of… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXIII] 2008. xxi, 733 pp.
The Romanticism series: 5 vols. set
The Romanticism series in the Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages is the result of a remarkable international collaboration. The editorial team coordinated the efforts of over 100 experts from more than two dozen countries to produce five independently conceived, yet… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, ROM:SET] 2008. 5 vols.
History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume III: The making and remaking of literary institutions
Edited by Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer
The third volume in the History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe focuses on the making and remaking of those institutional structures that engender and regulate the creation, distribution, and reception of literature. The focus here is not so much on shared institutions but rather on… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXII] 2007. xiv, 522 pp.
Modernism
Edited by Astradur Eysteinsson and Vivian Liska
The two-volume work Modernism has been awarded the prestigious 2008 MSA Book Prize! Modernism has constituted one of the most prominent fields of literary studies for decades. While it was perhaps temporarily overshadowed by postmodernism, recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXI] 2007. xii, 1043 pp. (2 vols.)
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 19 (2006)
Edited by Baudouin Van den Abeele and Paul Wackers
Reinardus aims to promote comparative research in the fields of medieval comic, satirical, didactic, and allegorical literature, with emphasis on beast epic, fable and fabliau, including sources, influences and later developments into the modern period. The methods and critical interpretations it… read more[Reinardus, 19] 2007. iv, 198 pp.
History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume II
Edited by Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer
Continuing the work undertaken in Vol. 1 of the History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe, Vol. 2 considers various topographic sites—multicultural cities, border areas, cross-cultural corridors, multiethnic regions—that cut across national boundaries, rendering them permeable to the… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XX] 2006. xiv, 512 pp.
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 18 (2005)
Edited by Baudouin Van den Abeele and Paul Wackers
Reinardus aims to promote comparative research in the fields of medieval comic, satirical, didactic, and allegorical literature, with emphasis on beast epic, fable and fabliau, including sources, influences and later developments into the modern period. The methods and critical interpretations it… read more[Reinardus, 18] 2005. 227 pp.
History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume I
Edited by Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer
National literary histories based on internally homogeneous native traditions have significantly contributed to the construction of national identities, especially in multicultural East-Central Europe, the region between the German and Russian hegemonic cultural powers stretching from the Baltic… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XIX] 2004. xx, 647 pp.
Nonfictional Romantic Prose: Expanding borders
Edited by Steven P. Sondrup and Virgil Nemoianu
Nonfictional Romantic Prose: Expanding Borders surveys a broad range of expository, polemical, and analytical literary forms that came into prominence during the last two decades of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth. They stand in contrast to better-known romantic fiction… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XVIII] 2004. viii, 477 pp.
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 17 (2004)
Edited by Brian J. Levy and Paul Wackers
[Reinardus, 17] 2004. vi, 211 + 13 pp. ills.
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 16 (2003)
Edited by Brian J. Levy and Paul Wackers
[Reinardus, 16] 2003. vi, 212 pp. + 8 ills.
L'Aube de la Modernité 1680-1760
Sous la direction de Peter-Eckhard Knabe, Roland Mortier et François Moureau
The purpose of this collective work is to throw new light on a period which is defined, neither in historical, nor in ideological terms, but along specific literary criteria. Across the XVIIth and the XVIIIth century, a new perspective appears on the status of literature and its relation to the… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XVI] 2002. viii, 554 pp.
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 15 (2002)
Edited by Brian J. Levy and Paul Wackers
[Reinardus, 15] 2002. vi, 210 pp. + 16 ills.
Romantic Poetry
Edited by Angela Esterhammer
Romantic Poetry encompasses twenty-seven new essays by prominent scholars on the influences and interrelations among Romantic movements throughout Europe and the Americas. It provides an expansive overview of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry in the European languages. The essays take… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XVII] 2002. xii, 537 pp.
Die Wende von der Aufklärung zur Romantik 1760–1820: Epoche im Überblick
Herausgegeben von Horst Albert Glaser und György M. Vajda †
This volume is the twelfth to date in a series of works in French or English presenting the epochs and movements of a Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages (Histoire Comparée des Littératures de Langues Européennes). The original intention of the editors was to publish a… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XIV] 2001. x, 760 pp.
A History of Literature in the Caribbean: Volume 2: English- and Dutch-speaking regions
Edited by A. James Arnold
For the first time the Dutch-speaking regions of the Caribbean and Suriname are brought into fruitful dialogue with another major American literature, that of the anglophone Caribbean. The results are as stimulating as they are unexpected. The editors have coordinated the work of a distinguished… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XV] 2001. x, 672 pp.
The History of Literature in the Caribbean series: 3 vols. set
A History of Literature in the Caribbean presents, in three volumes, the only comparative study yet attempted of the Caribbean as a literary region including all four major European languages (Dutch, English, French and Spanish). The Spanish- and French-language literatures are treated in volume… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, HIST:SET] 2001.
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 14 (2001)
Edited by Brian J. Levy and Paul Wackers
[Reinardus, 14] 2001. vi, 312 pp. + 16 pp. ill.
L'Époque de la Renaissance (1400–1600): Tome IV: Crises et essors nouveaux (1560–1610)
Sous la direction de Tibor Klaniczay, Eva Kushner et Paul Chavy
L’Époque de la Renaissance. Crises et essors nouveaux (1560–1610), a collaborative literary history of the second half of the sixteenth century in Europe, responds to a number of challenges, including those critical of the Renaissance concept itself in favour of a broader Early Modern concept. It… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XIII] 2000. xiv, 817 pp.
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 11 (1998)
Edited by Brian J. Levy and Paul Wackers
The aim of Reinardus is to promote comparative research in the fields of medieval comic, satirical, didactic and allegorical literature (with emphasis on beast epic, fable and fabliau), including sources, influences and later developments into the modern period. The methods and critical… read more[Reinardus, 11] 1998. 246 pp. + ills.
Translation and Creation: Readings of Western Literature in Early Modern China, 1840–1918
Edited by David E. Pollard
In the late Qing period, from the Opium War to the 1911 revolution, China absorbed the initial impact of Western arms, manufactures, science and culture, in that order. This volume of essays deals with the reception of Western literature, on the evidence of translations made. Having to overcome… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 25] 1998. vi, 336 pp.
A History of Literature in the Caribbean: Volume 3: Cross-Cultural Studies
Edited by A. James Arnold
Cross-Cultural Studies is the culminating effort of a distinguished team of international scholars who have worked since the mid-1980s to create the most complete analysis of Caribbean literature ever undertaken. Conceived as a major contribution to postcolonial studies, cultural studies, cultural… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XII] 1997. xviii, 399 pp.
International Postmodernism: Theory and literary practice
Edited by Hans Bertens and Douwe W. Fokkema †
Containing more than fifty essays by major literary scholars, International Postmodernism divides into four main sections. The volume starts off with a section of eight introductory studies dealing with the subject from different points of view followed by a section that deals with postmodernism in… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XI] 1997. xvi, 581 pp.
The Muzzled Muse: Literature and censorship in South Africa
Margreet de Lange
“The long history of censorship is a parallel and equally powerful history of literature. Censors bear witness to the power of the word even more forcefully than the writers and the readers they consider dangerous.” (Index on Censorship 6/1996)A critical assessment of literature produced under… read more[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 32] 1997. x, 181 pp.
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 10 (1997)
Edited by Brian J. Levy and Paul Wackers
The aim of Reinardus is to promote comparative research in the fields of medieval comic satirical, didactic and allegorical literature (with emphasis on beast epic, fable and fabliau), including sources, influences and later developments into the modern period. The methods and critical… read more[Reinardus, 10] 1997. 235 pp. + 16 ills.
The Search for a New Alphabet: Literary studies in a changing world
Edited by Harald Hendrix, Joost J. Kloek, Sophie Levie and Willie van Peer
Literary Studies is currently going through a deep transformation, preparing itself for the launch into the twenty-first century.The present volume, which is dedicated to Douwe Fokkema on the occasion of his retirement from Utrecht University, captures this transformation in a number of squibs by a… read more[Not in series, 76] 1996. x, 326 pp.
Cultural Participation: Trends since the Middle Ages
Edited by Ann Rigney and Douwe W. Fokkema †
Culture is studied in this collection, not merely as a set of products, but in terms of the involvement of individuals and groups in the making and using of such products. A wide range of activities, from the reading and writing of poetry to watching soccer on television, is surveyed by an… read more[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 31] 1993. x, 261 pp.
Fictional Realities: The uses of literary imagination
J.J.A. Mooij
This book is a study of the role of the imagination. It focuses on the imaginative use of language in literature (poetry and narrative prose); but it also touches on some more comprehensive issues, for the questions it discusses are questions regarding the relationship between mind, reality and… read more[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 30] 1993. xii, 290 pp.
Romantic Drama
Edited by Gerald Gillespie
In Romantic Drama, three dozen comparatists join forces for a supranational, crosscultural reexamination of the deep paradigm shifts appearing around the start of the nineteenth century which revolutionized drama as a literary art within the enormous civilization constituted by Europe and her… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, IX] 1993. xvi, 516 pp.
The Hospitable Canon: Essays on literary play, scholarly choice, and popular pressures
Edited by Virgil Nemoianu and Robert Royal
The papers in this book respond to the public debate over literary canons, in the United States, and elsewhere, by placing the political-ideological aspects of the conflict inside perspectives derived from comparative literature. Canons are seen by most of the contributors as based on democratic… read more[Cultura Ludens, 4] 1991. x, 268 pp.
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 2 (1989)
Edited by Brian J. Levy and Paul Wackers
[Reinardus, 2] 1989.
Exploring Postmodernism: Selected papers presented at a Workshop on Postmodernism at the XIth International Comparative Literature Congress, Paris, 20–24 August 1985
Edited by Matei Calinescu and Douwe W. Fokkema †
The great diversity of contexts in which the term Postmodernism is currently encountered reflects the remarkable success of a coinage that has been in circulation for only about forty years. It has been used by philosophers, sociologists, art critics and literary historians to become, finally, a… read more[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 23] 1988. viii, 268 pp.
L'Époque de la Renaissance (1400–1600): Tome I: L'avènement de l'esprit nouveau (1400–1480)
Sous la direction de Tibor Klaniczay, Eva Kushner et André Stegmann
Le nouveau volume de la série Histoire comparée des littératures de langues européennes constitue lui-même la première partie d'un ensemble de quatre volumes. Ces volumes sont consacrés à une période de 200 ans qui dans l'histoire de la civilisation des peuples d'Europe porte le nom de Renaissance.… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, VII] 1988. 594 pp.
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 1 (1988)
Edited by Brian J. Levy and Paul Wackers
[Reinardus, 1] 1988.
Romantic Irony
Edited by Frederick Garber
This is the first collaborative international reading of irony as a major phenomenon in Romantic art and thought. The volume identifies key predecessor moments that excited Romantic authors and the emergence of a distinctly Romantic theory and practice of irony spreading to all literary genres. Not… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, VIII] 1988. 395 pp.
European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa
Edited by Albert S. Gérard
The first major comparative study of African writing in western languages, European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by Albert S. Gérard, falls into four wide-ranging sections: an overview of early contacts and colonial developments “Under Western Eyes”; chapters on “Black… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, VI] 1986. 1288 pp. 2 volumes
The Symbolist Movement in the Literature of European Languages
Edited by Anna Balakian
Edited by Anna Balakian, this volume marks the first attempt to discuss Symbolism in a full range of the literatures written in the European languages. The scope of these analyses, which explore Latin America, Scandinavia, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as well as… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, II] 1984. 732 pp.
The Symbolist Home and the Tragic Home: Mallarmé and Oedipus
Richard E. Goodkin
[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 13] 1984. xv, 203 pp.
Le Tournant du siècle des Lumières 1760–1820: Les genres en vers des Lumières au romantisme
Sous la direction de György M. Vajda †
Ce volume fait partie d'une série de quatre volumes consacrés aux phénomènes littéraires de la période s'étendant des Lumières à l'avènement des mouvements romantiques. Les volumes suivants traiteront de la prose et du théâtre. Sont présentés ici les genres en vers, compte tenu en particulier des… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, III] 1982. 684 pp.
Expressionism as an International Literary Phenomenon: Twenty-one essays and a bibliography
Edited by Ulrich Weisstein
Ulrich Weisstein’s collection of 21 essays offers a comparative study of Expressionism as a Modernist movement whose dynamic core lay in Germany and Austria-Hungary, but which transformed artistic practices in other European countries. The focus, Weisstein argues, “must be strictly and sharply… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, I] 1973. 360 pp.