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ISSN 2211-5412
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Edited by Hans Bertens, Douwe W. Fokkema †, Harald Hendrix, Joost J. Kloek, Sophie Levie and Ann Rigney
ISSN 0167-8175
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Edited by Richard Trachsler and Baudouin Van den Abeele
ISSN 0925-4757 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9951
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Edited by Lieselotte Brems, Lobke Ghesquière and Brecht de Groote
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Geopolitics and Activism in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Edited by Giuliana Fenech and Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak
This volume explores how literature for young readers shapes and is informed by the geopolitical realities of our world. Bringing together perspectives from across the globe, the volume shows how children’s and YA texts foster young people’s agency by engaging with national identity, conflict,… read more
Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse
Anders Pettersson
Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse presents a general perspective on the art of literature, starting from the questions of what literature is, how it works, and what it is for. It is a main theme in the book that what we typically call literature is written to be read and freely… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 22] 2026. xv, 186 pp.
Practising Stylistics: Essays in Honour of Paul Simpson
Edited by Clara Neary, Simon Statham and Peter Stockwell
Practising Stylistics marks the career of Professor Paul Simpson, a leading figure in the discipline of stylistics, and one who embodies the practical and rigorous linguistic analysis of literary works and social discourse. A prominent figure in the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) since… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 45] 2026. xv, 281 pp.
Transcultural Influences in Soviet and Post-Soviet Animation
Edited by Sabina Amanbayeva, Olga Blackledge and Elena Goodwin
The edited volume Transcultural Influences in Soviet and Post-Soviet Animation provides an innovative perspective on animation from the region as a transcultural phenomenon that was influenced by a complex interplay of international and internal processes. Covering the 1930s to the 2010s, it… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 19] 2026. xiii, 292 pp. + index
The Moving Canon(s) of Slavic Children’s Literature
Edited by Mateusz Swietlicki, Dorota Michułka and Zofia Zasacka
This volume brings together contributions from leading scholars of children’s literature and culture, who apply various theoretical perspectives to capture transcultural and interdisciplinary links between global and local canons. The chapters are divided into three thematic clusters: School… read more
A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond. Volume II: Slavery, memory and literature
Edited by Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Madeleine Dobie and Mads Anders Baggesgaard
The second volume of A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond explores literary memory of enslavement in post-slavery societies on four continents (North- and South America, Africa and Europe). The twenty-two contributors to this volume relate the memory work… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXXVII] 2025. vii, 420 pp.
Decoding Movie Language through Multi-Dimensional Analysis and the Grammar of Graphics
Pierfranca Forchini
This book offers a comprehensive and refined account of movie discourse through the application of Multi-Dimensional Analysis (MDA) to the American Movie Corpus, a collection of authentic, verified movie dialog transcriptions. Expanding on previous MDA-based research, it broadens both the scope of… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 124] 2025. vii, 329 pp.
Love, Sex, and the Sacred: A metaphor analysis of Hungarian folk songs
Veronika Szelid
Most Hungarian folksongs are about SEX – according to a widely accepted opinion of ethnographers. But what is SEX about? How is it connected to LOVE, and what does THE SACRED have to do with these? Drawing on Conceptual Metaphor Theory, this book reveals the profound connections between the three… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 18] 2025. xi, 265 pp.
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.
Storytelling, Identity Formation, and Resistance in Indigenous Cultures in Canada and the United States
Edited by Kamelia Talebian Sedehi
Storytelling is a means of fostering a sense of identity, belonging, and continuity. Through stories, Indigenous peoples understand and interpret the world, and learn how to survive in spite of external forces such as colonialism. Storytelling has been studied by many scholars across myriad… read more[Studies in Narrative, 28] 2025. xiii, 250 pp.
Style as Motivated Choice: In memory of Peter Verdonk (1934–2021)
Edited by Michael Burke and Joanna Gavins
This volume of stylistic scholarship is dedicated to the memory of one of the most inspirational and kindest stylistics scholars of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, Peter Verdonk (1934-2021). Verdonk was Professor of Stylistics at the University of Amsterdam and one of the founding members… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 44] 2025. vi, 190 pp.
A Comparative History of the Literary Draft in Europe
Edited by Olga Beloborodova and Dirk Van Hulle
Literary drafts are a constant in literatures of all ages and linguistic areas, and yet their role in writing processes in various traditions has seldom been the subject of systematic comparative scrutiny. In 38 chapters written by leading experts in many different fields, this book charts a… read more
A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond. Volume I: Slavery, literature and the emotions
Edited by Madeleine Dobie, Mads Anders Baggesgaard and Karen-Margrethe Simonsen
The first volume of A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery explores literary representations of enslavement with a focus on the emotions. The contributors consider how the diverse emotions generated by slavery have been represented over a historical period stretching from the 16th century… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXXVI] 2024. xxiv, 334 pp.
A Corpus Stylistics Approach to Contemporary Present-tense Narrative
Reiko Ikeo, Eri Shigematsu and Masayuki Nakao
Focusing on the growing trend of employing the present tense in storytelling, this book explores present-tense narrative in contemporary fiction. Using a corpus approach, speech, writing, and thought presentation in 21st-century present-tense narrative is compared with 20th-century past-tense… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 43] 2024. xx, 269 pp.
Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond: A millennium heritage
Edited by Francesco Stella
The textual heritage of Medieval Latin is one of the greatest reservoirs of human culture. Repertories list more than 16,000 authors from about 20 modern countries. Until now, there has been no introduction to this world in its full geographical extension. Forty contributors fill this gap by… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXXIV] 2024. xviii, 706 pp.
Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Diversity in a Global Perspective
Edited by Adams Bodomo and Carola Koblitz
Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Diversity in a Global Perspective is a captivating collection of research articles. This volume explores the intricate connections between language, culture, and identity across the globe. An agenda-setting introduction by the editors and essays by… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 21] 2024. xi, 275 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.
Ruptured Commons
Edited by Anna Guttman and Veronica J. Austen
At a time when we have all lived through profound and unexpected disruptions to our shared spaces, routines, economies, societies, and work-lives, this book considers the nature and implications of rupture, the commons, and their conjoining. Addressing rupture and disruption through the lens of… read more
Transformative Reading
Olivia Fialho
Transformative Reading belongs to a growing tradition of studies investigating the functions of aesthetic experiences in our lives. Philosophers, literary theorists, and psychologists have suggested that aesthetic experiences implicate and develop our sense of ourselves. Literary texts, as one such… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 42] 2024. xii, 263 pp.
Travel Writing and Cultural Transfer
Edited by Petra Broomans and Jeanette den Toonder
Travel Writing and Cultural Transfer addresses the multifaceted concept of cultural transfer through travel writing, with the aim of expanding our knowledge of modes of travel in the past and present and how they developed, as did the way in which… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 20] 2024. xii, 207 pp.
Children's Cultures after Childhood
Edited by Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak and Macarena García-González
Children’s Cultures after Childhood introduces theoretical concepts from new materialist and posthumanist childhood studies into research on children’s literature, film, and media texts with attention to the entanglements of which they are part. Thirteen chapters by international contributors from… read more
Emotion in Texts for Children and Young Adults: Moving stories
Edited by Karen Coats and Gretchen Papazian
Emotion in Texts for Children and Young Adults: Moving stories takes up key issues in affect studies while putting forward new approaches and ways of thinking about the intricate entanglements of emotion, affect, and story in relation to the functions, processes, and influences of texts designed… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 13] 2023. x, 242 pp.
Interdisciplinary approaches to the language of pop culture
Edited by Rocío Montoro and Valentin Werner
Special issue of English Text Construction 16:2 (2023) v, 152 pp.
Language and Characterisation in Television Series: A corpus-informed approach to the construction of social identity in the media
Monika Bednarek
This book explores how language is used to create characters in fictional television series. To do so, it draws on multiple case studies from the United States and Australia. Brought together in this book for the first time, these case studies constitute more than the sum of their parts. They… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 106] 2023. xii, 265 pp.
Learning to Read, Learning Religion: Catechism primers in Europe from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries
Edited by Britta Juska-Bacher, M.O. Grenby, Tuija Laine and Wendelin Sroka
Catechism primers are inconspicuous but telling little books for children combining the teaching of reading skills and religious catechesis. From the 16th to the 19th centuries, they have been produced, disseminated and used in huge numbers in many regions of the world, in particular in Europe.… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 14] 2023. xix, 375 pp.
A Life with Poetry: The development of poetic literacy
Joan Peskin and David I. Hanauer
This volume examines the development of poetic literacy including the specific processes used by expert poetry readers and professional poets. In doing so it provides a much needed synthesis of research findings across diverse domains such as human development, the scientific study of literature,… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 41] 2023. x, 194 pp.
Photography in Children's Literature
Edited by Elina Druker and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
Photography in Children’s Literature is the first international study that examines the wide array of artistic techniques, topics, and genres used within photographic books for children. Covering a time period from the 1870s to the 1980s, the collection offers multifaceted insights into changing… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 17] 2023. xv, 306 pp.
The Reality of Women in the Universe of the Ancient Novel
Edited by María Paz López Martínez, Carlos Sánchez-Moreno Ellart and Ana Belén Zaera García
This volume gathers chapters related to the condition of women in the ancient novel. To broaden the perspective, it integrates not only papers dealing with the Greek and Roman novel as a literary genre in its own right, but also as a historical document involving aspects as diverse as history,… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 40] 2023. xviii, 448 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.
Transnational Books for Children 1750-1900: Producers, consumers, encounters
Edited by Charlotte Appel, Nina Christensen and M.O. Grenby
This is the first study to take a comprehensive look at transnational children’s literature in the period before 1900. The chapters examine what we mean by ‘children’s literature’ in this period, as well as what we mean by ‘transnational’ in the context of children’s culture. They investigate who… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 15] 2023. xv, 388 pp.
Consumable Reading and Children's Literature: Food, taste and material interactions
Ilgım Veryeri Alaca
Consumable Reading and Children's Literature explores how multisensory experiences enhance early childhood literacy practices through material and sensory interactions. Embodied engagements that focus on the gustatory experience and, in particular, the sense of taste are investigated by studying… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 12] 2022. xvii, 260 pp.
Humour in Self-Translation
Edited by Margherita Dore
This book explores an important aspect of human existence: humor in self-translation, a virtually unexplored area of research in Humour Studies and Translation Studies. Of the select group of international scholars contributing to this volume some examine literary texts from different perspectives… read more[Topics in Humor Research, 11] 2022. xi, 278 pp.
Iconicity in Cognition and across Semiotic Systems
Edited by Sara Lenninger, Olga Fischer, Christina Ljungberg and Elżbieta Tabakowska
This volume investigates iconicity as to both comprehension and production of meaning in language, gesture, pictures, art and literature. It highlights iconic processes in meaning-making and interpretation across different semiotic systems at structurally, historically and pragmatically different… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 18] 2022. x, 411 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.
Nordic Utopias and Dystopias: From Aniara to Allatta!
Edited by Pia Maria Ahlbäck, Jouni Teittinen and Maria Lassén-Seger
The Nordic countries have long been subject to certain idealised, even utopian imaginaries, particularly with regard to images of pristine nature and the societal ideals of democracy, equality and education. On the other hand, such projections inevitably invite dissent, irony and intimations of the… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 17] 2022. ix, 256 pp.
Othello in European Culture
Edited by Elena Bandín Fuertes, Francesca Rayner and Laura Campillo Arnaiz
This volume argues that a focus on the European reception of Othello represents an important contribution to critical work on the play. The chapters in this volume examine non-anglophone translations and performances, alternative ways of distinguishing between texts, adaptations and versions, as… read more[Shakespeare in European Culture, 3] 2022. xi, 270 pp.
Poetic Metaphors: Creativity and interpretation
Carina Rasse
Poetry pushes metaphor to the limit. Consider how many different, dynamic, and interconnected dimensions (e.g., text, rhyme, rhythm, sound, and many more) a poem has, and how they all play a role in the ways (metaphorical) meaning is constructed. There is probably no other genre that relies so much… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 15] 2022. xvii, 190 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.
Sound–Emotion Interaction in Poetry: Rhythm, Phonemes, Voice Quality
Reuven Tsur † and Chen Gafni
This book is a collection of studies providing a unique view on two central aspects of poetry: sounds and emotive qualities, with emphasis on their interactions. The book addresses various theoretical and methodological issues related to topics like sound symbolism, poetic prosody, and voice… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 39] 2022. xv, 448 pp.
Time Representations in the Perspective of Human Creativity
Edited by Anna Piata, Adriana Gordejuela and Daniel Alcaraz Carrión
In recent years, the study of the conceptualization of time has seen a considerable growth, providing a basis for exploring the cognitive foundation of metaphor. But if metaphorical representations of time are established in the cognitive system, how are they manipulated when humans are engaged in… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 75] 2022. viii, 245 pp.
Visual Metaphors
Edited by Réka Benczes and Veronika Szelid
Whenever we think about the world – including its concrete and abstract entities – we typically see a series of so-called mental images in front of our eyes that aid us in everyday problem solving and navigating ourselves in the world. Visual metaphors, similarly to their linguistic counterparts,… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 124] 2022. vi, 284 pp.
Voicing Absences/Presences in a Damaged World
Edited by Jessica Maufort and Marc Maufort
Special issue of English Text Construction 15:2 (2022) v, 83 pp.
Biografies invisibles / Invisible Biographies: Marginats i marginals / Marginates and marginals
Edited by Vicent Josep Escartí
Biografies invisibles: Marginats i marginals és un volum que conté una sèrie d’estudis de casos concrets de personatges històrics desconeguts en gran mesura i que, pel fet d’haver tingut unes vides al marge de la llei en moltes ocasions, no són actualment coneguts. També, sobre personatges… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 28] 2021. vi, 276 pp.
Growing Sideways in Twenty-first Century British Culture: Challenging boundaries between childhood and adulthood
Anne Malewski
This volume examines changing boundaries between childhood and adulthood in British society and culture at the beginning of the twenty-first century − where these age boundaries are widely debated, policed, and contested − to investigate alternatives to conventional ideas of growing up. Building on… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 11] 2021. xi, 229 pp.
La «cavalleria umanistica» italiana / The Italian “Humanistic Chivalry”: Enyego (Inico) d’Àvalos e ‘Curial e Guelfa’ / Enyego (Inico) d’Àvalos and ‘Curial e Guelfa’
Edited by Antoni Ferrando and Anna Maria Babbi
This book aims to contribute to the knowledge of the cultural and linguistic relations between Italy and the Crown of Aragon in the 15th century. In particular, it studies some relevant aspects of the chivalric romance entitled Curial e Guelfa, written in Italy around 1443-1448 in Catalan, but… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 29] 2021. xxiii, 208 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.
Language in Place: Stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment
Edited by Daniela Francesca Virdis, Elisabetta Zurru and Ernestine Lahey
The contributions in this collection offer a wide range of stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment, by focusing on a variety of text-types ranging from poetry, the Bible, fictional and non-fictional prose, to newspaper articles, condo names, online texts and exhibitions.… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 37] 2021. vii, 258 pp.
Literary Translator Studies
Edited by Klaus Kaindl, Waltraud Kolb and Daniela Schlager
This volume extends and deepens our understanding of Translator Studies by charting new territory in terms of theory, methods and concepts. The focus is on literary translators, their roles, identities, and personalities. The book introduces pertinent translator-centered approaches in four… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 156] 2021. vii, 313 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.
Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods
Edited by Alice Bell, Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons and David Peplow
Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods profiles the diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches in reception-oriented research in stylistics. Collectively, the chapters investigate how real readers, players, audiences, and viewers respond to, experience, and interpret texts.… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 36] 2021. vii, 236 pp.
Words, Books, Images, and the Long Eighteenth Century: Essays for Allen Reddick
Edited by Antoinina Bevan Zlatar, Mark Ittensohn, Enit Karafili Steiner and Olga Timofeeva
The essays collected in this volume engage in a conversation among lexicography, the culture of the book, and the canonization and commemoration of English literary figures and their works in the long eighteenth century. The source of inspiration for each piece is Allen Reddick’s scholarship on… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 16] 2021. xv, 252 pp.
Discourses on the Edges of Life
Edited by Vicent Salvador †, Adéla Kotátková and Ignasi Clemente
Death inhabits our collective imaginary, even though sometimes, like a squatter, it hides discretely in order to avoid conflicts. It is undoubtedly a multi-faceted subject of study, which requires consideration from an interdisciplinary perspective. This book deals with this phenomenon, and more… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 26] 2020. vi, 196 pp.
Exploring NORDIC COOL in Literary History
Edited by Gunilla Hermansson and Jens Lohfert Jørgensen
How did Nordic culture become associated with the fuzzy brand “cool”, as by default? In Exploring NORDIC COOL in Literary History twenty-one scholars in collaboration question the seemingly natural fit between “Nordic” and “Cool” by investigating its variegated trajectories through literary… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 15] 2020. xix, 342 pp.
The Hero Reloaded: The reinvention of the classical hero in contemporary mass media
Edited by Rosario López Gregoris and Cristóbal Macías Villalobos
What was a hero in Classical Antiquity? Why is it that their characteristics have transcended chronological and cultural barriers while they are still role models in our days? How have their features changed to be embodied by comic superheroes and film? How is their essence vulgarized and turned… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 23] 2020. xiv, 160 pp.
Literary Communication as Dialogue: Responsibilities and pleasures in post-postmodern times. Selected papers 2003-2020
Roger D. Sell
As traced by Roger D. Sell, literary communication is a process of community-making. As long as literary authors and those responding to them respect each other’s human autonomy, literature flourishes as an enjoyable, though often challenging mode of interaction that is truly dialogical in spirit.… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 14] 2020. xii, 425 pp.
Opera in Translation: Unity and diversity
Edited by Adriana Şerban and Kelly Kar Yue Chan
This volume covers aspects of opera translation within the Western world and in Asia, as well as some of opera’s many travels between continents, countries, languages and cultures—and also between genres and media. The concept of ‘adaptation’ is a thread running through the sixteen contributions,… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 153] 2020. vii, 369 pp.
Operationalizing Iconicity
Edited by Pamela Perniss, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg
The Iconicity in Language and Literature series has long been dedicated to the recognition and understanding of the pervasiveness of iconicity in language in its many forms and functions. The present volume, divided into four sections, brings together and unifies different perspectives on iconicity. read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 17] 2020. xii, 331 pp.
The Politics of Translating Sound Motifs in African Fiction
Laurence Jay-Rayon Ibrahim Aibo
Starting with the premise that aesthetic choices reveal the ideological stances of translators, the author of this research monograph examines works of fiction by postcolonial African authors writing in English or French, the genesis and reception of their works, and the translation of each one… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 150] 2020. ix, 170 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.
Shakespeare and Crisis: One hundred years of Italian narratives
Edited by Silvia Bigliazzi
Shakespeare and Crisis: One hundred years of Italian narratives explores how Shakespeare intervened in the Italian socio-political and cultural scene between his third and fourth centenaries, at times which were manifestly perceived as ‘critical’. It asks which complex mythopoietic processes… read more[Shakespeare in European Culture, 2] 2020. x, 292 pp.
The Expression of Tense, Aspect, Modality and Evidentiality in Albert Camus’s L'Étranger and Its Translations / L'Étranger de Camus et ses traductions : questions de temps, d'aspect, de modalité et d'évidentialité (TAME): An empirical study / Etude empirique
Edited by Eric Corre, Danh Thành Do-Hurinville and Huy Linh Dao
This book deals with the linguistic treatment of tense-aspect-modal-evidential (TAME) expressions in translations of the French novel L’Étranger by Albert Camus into sixteen languages. It is strongly empirical in spirit, and uses the method of contrastive linguistics and multilingual comparison… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 35] 2020. ix, 388 pp.
The Cinematic Novel and Postmodern Pop Fiction: The case of Manuel Puig
Décio Torres Cruz
Décio Torres Cruz approaches connections between literature and cinema partly through issues of gender and identity, and partly through issues of reality and representation. In doing so, he looks at the various ways in which people have thought of the so-called cinematic novel, tracing the… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 13] 2019. xv, 325 pp.
Current Perspectives on Literary Reading
Edited by Dari Escandell and José Rovira-Collado
This collection aims to provide answers regarding what the most recent trends are in research in literary reading. Based on that premise, it contains a rigorously selected and varied roster of investigations that focus on presenting and attempting to interpret and understand the most recent… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 22] 2019. x, 186 pp.
Experiencing Fictional Worlds
Edited by Benedict Neurohr and Lizzie Stewart-Shaw
Experiencing Fictional Worlds is not only the title of this book, but a challenge to reveal exactly what makes the “experience” of literature. This volume presents contributions drawing upon a range of theories and frameworks based on the text-as-world metaphor. This text-world approach is… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 32] 2019. xiii, 228 pp.
A History of Catalan Folk Literature
Edited by Carme Oriol and Emili Samper
A History of Catalan Folk Literature is the fruit of a collaborative effort between fifteen researchers from various universities and research centres who have joined forces to create a broader study of Catalan folk literature that addresses the Catalan linguistic and cultural territories in their… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 21] 2019. xv, 273 pp.
A Humanizing Literary Pragmatics: Theory, criticism, education. Selected papers 1985-2002
Roger D. Sell
In much of his earlier work Roger D. Sell was shaping literary studies, historical perspectives, and pragmatics into a fluent interdisciplinarity. This enabled him to explore the fundamentally human relationships which develop between literary writers and those who respond to them.Literary writers,… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 10] 2019. xii, 396 pp.
Intertextuality in Practice
Jessica Mason
The books we’ve read, the films we’ve seen, the stories we’ve heard - and just as importantly the ones we haven’t – form an integral part of our identity. Recognising a reference to a text can result in feelings of pleasure, expertise and even smugness; being lost as to a reference’s possible… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 33] 2019. xi, 204 pp.
Pragmatics and Literature
Edited by Siobhan Chapman and Billy Clark
Pragmatics and Literature is an important collection of new work by leading practitioners working at the interface between pragmatic theory and literary analysis. The individual studies collected here draw on a variety of theoretical approaches and are concerned with a range of literary genres. All… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 35] 2019. xiv, 225 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.
Renaissance Man: Essays on literature and culture for Anthony W. Johnson
Edited by Tommi Alho, Jason Finch and Roger D. Sell
Here friends of Anthony W. Johnson honour him as a re-embodiment of the polymathic artist-scholar figure once observable in Ben Jonson, on whom he has done some of his most distinctive work. Part I of the book reflects his strong grounding in English literature and culture of the seventeenth… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 11] 2019. xi, 273 pp.
Representing the Exotic and the Familiar: Politics and perception in literature
Edited by Meenakshi Bharat and Madhu Grover
The multicultural world of today is often said to be marked by a certain kind of exoticization: a “fetishizing process”, as Graham Huggan has called it, which separates a “first world” from a “third world”, the Occident from the Orient. The essays collected here re-assess this tendency, not least… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 12] 2019. xix, 363 pp.
Strategic Maneuvering for Political Change: A pragma-dialectical analysis of Egyptian anti-regime columns
Ahmed Abdulhameed Omar
In Strategic Maneuvering for Political Change, the author analyzes five political columns written before 2011 by Al Aswany, a prominent Egyptian novelist, using the lens of the extended pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation. What these texts have in common is the use of narrative, fictional… read more[Argumentation in Context, 16] 2019. ix, 188 pp.
Style, Rhetoric and Creativity in Language: In memory of Walter (Bill) Nash (1926-2015)
Edited by Paul Simpson
This commemorative volume comprises ten essays which celebrate the work of Walter (Bill) Nash. Bill Nash was an extraordinary scholar – a classicist, parodist, critic, musician, linguist, poet, polyglot, humourist and novelist. He was as adroit in his reading of the Old Norse sagas as he was in his… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 34] 2019. ix, 205 pp.
Cognitive Rhetoric: The cognitive poetics of political discourse
Sam Browse
This book sets out a framework for investigating audience responses to political discourse. It starts from the premise that audiences are active participants who bring their own background knowledge and political standpoint to the communicative event. To operationalise this perspective, the volume… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 31] 2018. xi, 235 pp.
An Ecology of the Russian Avant-Garde Picturebook
Sara Pankenier Weld
An Ecology of the Russian Avant-Garde Picturebook takes a new approach to interpreting 1920s and 1930s picturebooks by prominent Russian writers, artists, and intellectuals by examining them within the ecological environment that, first, made them possible and, then, led to their demise. It argues… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 9] 2018. xiv, 236 pp.
Empirical Studies of Literariness
Edited by Massimo Salgaro and Paul Sopčák
Special issue of Scientific Study of Literature 8:1 (2018) v, 208 pp.
The Fictions of Translation
Edited by Judith Woodsworth
In The Fictions of Translation, emerging and seasoned scholars from a range of cultures bring fresh perspectives to bear on the age-old practice of translation. The current movement of people, knowledge and goods around the world has made intercultural communication both prevalent and indispensable. read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 139] 2018. x, 307 pp.
Key Cultural Texts in Translation
Edited by Kirsten Malmkjær, Adriana Şerban and Fransiska Louwagie
In the context of increased movement across borders, this book examines how key cultural texts and concepts are transferred between nations and languages as well as across different media. The texts examined in this book are considered fundamental to their source culture and can also take on a… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 140] 2018. xiv, 320 pp.
Narrative, Identity, and the City: Filipino stories of dislocation and relocation
Edited by Raul P. Lejano
Raul P. Lejano offers a boldly original synthesis of narratology, psychology, and human geography. This helps him articulate his two main insights: that our identity as individuals, though not completely determined by sociocultural factors, nevertheless profoundly reflects our embeddedness in… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 8] 2018. xii, 170 pp.
The Nation and the Child: Nation building in Hebrew children’s literature, 1930–1970
Yael Darr
The Nation and the Child – Nation Building in Hebrew Children’s Literature, 1930–1970 is the first comprehensive study to investigate the active role of children’s literature in the intensive cultural project of building a Hebrew nation. Which social actors and institutions participated in… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 10] 2018. xii, 186 pp.
The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter
Edited by Manuel Jobert and Sandrine Sorlin
The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter is the first book-length study analysing irony and banter together. This approach, inherited from Geoffrey Leech’s research, implies that the two notions are intrinsically related. In this thought-provoking volume, the various contributors (linguists,… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 30] 2018. vi, 221 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.
Revisiting Shakespeare's Language
Edited by Annalisa Baicchi, Roberta Facchinetti, Silvia Cacchiani and Antonio Bertacca
Special issue of English Text Construction 11:1 (2018) v, 168 pp.
Where is Adaptation?: Mapping cultures, texts, and contexts
Edited by Casie Hermansson and Janet Zepernick
Where is Adaptation? Mapping cultures, texts, and contexts explores the vast terrain of contemporary adaptation studies and offers a wide variety of answers to the title question in 24 chapters by 29 international practitioners and scholars of adaptation, both eminent and emerging. From insightful… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 9] 2018. xix, 431 pp.
The Vindel Parchment and Martin Codax / O Pergamiño Vindel e Martin Codax: The Golden Age of Medieval Galician Poetry / O esplendor da poesía galega medieval
Edited by Alexandre Rodríguez Guerra and Xosé Bieito Arias Freixedo
This book offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date, multidisciplinary approach to the work of Galician jongleur Martin Codax and the Vindel Parchment. This medieval manuscript with the texts of seven cantigas de amigo by Martin Codax and the music score of six of them, is a philological gem that… read more[Not in series, 218] 2018. xvi, 343 pp.
The Poetics of Time – Metaphors and Blends in Language and Literature
Anna Piata
How does the concept of time, elusive and inconceivable as it may be, lend itself to verbal creativity? Is it possible to trace something like a “poetics of time”? This book embarks on this endeavor initiated by the assumption that verbal creativity can shed some new light on our understanding of… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 3] 2018. xviii, 206 pp.
Cognitive Grammar in Contemporary Fiction
Chloe Harrison
This book proposes an extension of Cognitive Grammar (Langacker 1987, 1991, 2008) towards a cognitive discourse grammar, through the unique environment that literary stylistic application offers. Drawing upon contemporary research in cognitive stylistics (Text World Theory, deixis and… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 26] 2017. ix, 164 pp.
Dimensions of Iconicity
Edited by Angelika Zirker, Matthias Bauer, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg
This volume addresses five different Dimensions of Iconicity. While some contributions examine the phonic dimensions of iconicity that are based on empirical, diachronic and theoretical work, others explore the function of similarity from a cognitive point of view. The section on multimodal… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 15] 2017. xiv, 351 pp.
Free Indirect Style in Modernism: Representations of consciousness
Eric Rundquist
Free Indirect Style (FIS) is a linguistic technique that defies the logic of human subjectivity by enabling readers to directly observe the subjective experiences of third-person characters. This book consolidates the existing literary-linguistic scholarship on FIS into a theory that is based… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 29] 2017. xvii, 197 pp.
From Superman to Social Realism: Children's media and Scandinavian childhood
Helle Strandgaard Jensen
Can children’s media be a source of education and empowerment? Or is the commercial media market a threat to their sense of social and democratic values? Such questions about the appropriateness of children’s media consumption have recurred in public debates throughout the twentieth century. From… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 6] 2017. xii, 188 pp.
Grammar, usage and discourse: Functional studies offered to Kristin Davidse
Edited by Lieven Vandelanotte, Wout Van Praet and Lieselotte Brems
Special issue of English Text Construction 10:2 (2017) v, 159 pp.
The Idea of a Text and the Nature of Textual Meaning
Anders Pettersson
In his account of text and textual meaning, Pettersson demonstrates that a text as commonly conceived is not only a verbal structure but also a physical entity, two kinds of phenomena which do not in fact add up to a unitary object. He describes this current notion of text as convenient enough for… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 7] 2017. xiii, 196 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.
Maps and Mapping in Children's Literature: Landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes
Edited by Nina Goga and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
Maps and Mapping in Children’s Literature is the first comprehensive study that investigates the representation of maps in children’s books as well as the impact of mapping on the depiction of landscapes, seascapes, and cityscapes in children’s literature. The chapters in this volume pursue a… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 7] 2017. x, 267 pp.
Mixed Magic: Global-local dialogues in fairy tales for young readers
Anna Katrina Gutierrez
Mixed Magic: Global-local dialogues in fairy tales for young readers considers retellings and adaptations from a ‘glocal’ context: a framework focused on the reciprocal and cross-cultural exchange between global processes and local practices and their potential transformative effects. The study… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 8] 2017. xix, 230 pp.
Narrative Absorption
Edited by Frank Hakemulder, Moniek M. Kuijpers, Ed S. Tan, Katalin Bálint and Miruna M. Doicaru
Narrative Absorption brings together research from the social sciences and Humanities to solve a number of mysteries: Most of us will have had those moments, of being totally absorbed in a book, a movie, or computer game. Typically we do not have any idea about how we ended up in such a state. Nor… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 27] 2017. ix, 319 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.
Romeo and Juliet in European Culture
Edited by Juan F. Cerdá, Dirk Delabastita and Keith Gregor
With its roots deep in ancient narrative and in various reworkings from the late medieval and early modern period, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet has left a lasting trace on modern European culture. This volume aims to chart the main outlines of this reception process in the broadest sense by… read more[Shakespeare in European Culture, 1] 2017. xi, 331 pp.
Shakespearean Perspectives: Essays on poetic negotiation
David Lucking
David Lucking sees Shakespeare’s plays as negotiating tensions between a number of alternative, and sometimes mutually antagonistic perspectives. Some of these perspectives are associated with particular languages, cultures and texts, while others involve philosophical issues such as the nature of… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 6] 2017. xxii, 192 pp.
The Stylistics of Landscapes, the Landscapes of Stylistics
Edited by John Douthwaite, Daniela Francesca Virdis and Elisabetta Zurru
In treating the topic of the landscapes of stylistics, this book provides a series of chapters which deal not only with physical landscapes but also with social, mental, historical portraits of places, people and society. The chapters demonstrate that all texts project a worldview, even when the… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 28] 2017. vii, 238 pp.
Textual and Contextual Voices of Translation
Edited by Cecilia Alvstad, Annjo K. Greenall, Hanne Jansen and Kristiina Taivalkoski-Shilov
The notion of voice has been used in a number of ways within Translation Studies. Against the backdrop of these different uses, this book looks at the voices of translators, authors, publishers, editors and readers both in the translations themselves and in the texts that surround these… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 137] 2017. vi, 268 pp.
To Hell and Back: An anthology of Dante's Inferno in English translation (1782–2017)
Tim Smith and Marco Sonzogni
Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) maintained that translation destroys the harmony of poetry. Yet his Commedia has been translated into English time and again over the last two-and-a-bit centuries. At last count, one-hundred and twenty-nine different translators have published at least one canticle of… read more[Not in series, 212] 2017. xx, 295 pp.
Translation of Autobiography: Narrating self, translating the other
Susan XU Yun
This book presents an interdisciplinary study that straddles four academic fields, namely, autobiography, stylistics, narratology and translation studies. It shows that foregrounding is manifested in the language of autobiography, alerting readers to an authorial tone with certain ideological… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 136] 2017. xv, 231 pp.
Worldmaking: Literature, language, culture
Edited by Tom Clark, Emily Finlay and Philippa Kelly
In 1978, Nelson Goodman explored the relation of “worlds” to language and literature, formulating the term, “worldmaking” to suggest that many other worlds can as plausibly exist as the “world” we know right now. We cannot catch or know “the world” as such: all we can catch are the world versions -… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 5] 2017. xv, 235 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.
Corpus Stylistics as Contextual Prosodic Theory and Subtext
Bill Louw and Marija Milojkovic
The volume presents Louw's Contextual Prosodic Theory from its beginnings to its newest applications. It journeys from delexicalisation and relexicalisation into Semantic Prosody and then to the heart of its contextual requirements within collocation and the thinking of J.R. Firth. Once there, it… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 23] 2016. xix, 419 pp.
Deep Locational Criticism: Imaginative place in literary research and teaching
Jason Finch
A lively series of spatial turns in literary studies since the 1990s give rise to this engaged and practical book, devoted to the question of how to teach and study the relationship between all sorts of literature and all sorts of location. Among the many concrete examples explored are texts… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 3] 2016. xiii, 249 pp.
Experimentalism as Reciprocal Communication in Contemporary American Poetry: John Ashbery, Lyn Hejinian, Ron Silliman
Elina Siltanen
The poems of John Ashbery, Lyn Hejinian and Ron Silliman may seem to offer endless small details of expression, observation, thought and narrative which fail to hang together even from one line to the next. But as Elina Siltanen shows here, this extraordinary flow of uncoordinated detail can… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 4] 2016. x, 210 pp.
Linguistics and Literary History: In honour of Sylvia Adamson
Edited by Anita Auer, Victorina González-Díaz, Jane Hodson and Violeta Sotirova
Linguistics and Literary History systematically explores the advantages of an inter-disciplinary approach within the broad area of English studies. It brings together stylistics, literary theory and diachronic linguistics in order to explore their interaction at various methodological, descriptive… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 25] 2016. vi, 216 pp.
Literature in Contemporary Media Culture: Technology - Subjectivity- Aesthetics
Edited by Sarah J. Paulson and Anders Skare Malvik
How does contemporary literature respond to the digitalized media culture in which it takes part? And how do we study literature in order to shed light on these responses? Under the subsections Technology, Subjectivity, and Aesthetics, Literature in Contemporary Media Culture sets out to answer… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 2] 2016. xiii, 265 pp.
Or Words to That Effect: Orality and the writing of literary history
Edited by Daniel F. Chamberlain and J. Edward Chamberlin
This volume raises questions about why oral celebrations of language receive so little attention in published literary histories when they are simultaneously recognized as fundamental to our understanding of literature. It aims to prompt debate regarding the transformations needed for literary… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXVIII] 2016. vi, 317 pp.
Perspectives on Narrativity and Narrative Perspectivization
Edited by Natalia Igl and Sonja Zeman
The book offers a novel approach to the question of how to model narrativity against the background of perspectivization. By bringing together contributions from neuro- and cognitive linguistics, literary studies, and picture theory, the volume uncovers basic mechanisms of perspectivization that… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 21] 2016. viii, 185 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.
Scientific Approaches to Literature in Learning Environments
Edited by Michael Burke, Olivia Fialho and Sonia Zyngier
Scientific Approaches to Literature in Learning Environments is not just about what takes place in literary classrooms. Settings do have a strong influence on student learning both directly and indirectly. These spaces may include the home, the workplace, science centers, libraries, that is,… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 24] 2016. xix, 309 pp.
Textplicating Iconophones: Articulatory iconic action in Ulysses
Nurit Levy
This volume applies a sign-oriented approach to the description of articulatory and acoustic iconic phenomena in James Joyce’s Ulysses. In its hypothesis, the greater the role of sensory experience in the message of a text, the more likely it is to employ linguistic representation in articulated… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 72] 2016. xvii, 333 pp.
Transdisciplinary Approaches to Literature and Empathy
Edited by Paul Sopčák, Massimo Salgaro and J. Berenike Herrmann
Special issue of Scientific Study of Literature 6:1 (2016) v, 174 pp.
The dynamicity of communication below, around and above the clause
Edited by Ben Clarke and Jorge Arús-Hita
Special issue of English Text Construction 9:1 (2016) v, 219 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.
Children's Literature and the Avant-Garde
Edited by Elina Druker and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
Children’s Literature and the Avant-Garde is the first study that investigates the intricate influence of the avant-garde movements on children’s literature in different countries from the beginning of the 20th century until the present. Examining a wide range of children’s books from Denmark,… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 5] 2015. xii, 295 pp.
Crime and Corpus: The linguistic representation of crime in the press
Ulrike Tabbert
Reports on crime in newspapers do not provide a neutral representation of criminals and their offences but instead construct them in accordance with societal discourse surrounding this issue. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach at the intersection of Linguistics, Criminology, and Media… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 20] 2015. xvii, 181 pp.
Iconicity: East meets West
Edited by Masako K. Hiraga, William J. Herlofsky, Kazuko Shinohara and Kimi Akita
Iconicity: East Meets West presents an intersection of East-West scholarship on Iconicity. Several of its chapters thus deal with Asian languages and cultures, or a comparison of world languages. Divided into four categories: general issues; sound symbolism and mimetics; iconicity in literary… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 14] 2015. x, 279 pp.
Made-in-Canada Humour: Literary, folk and popular culture
Beverly J. Rasporich
Made-in-Canada-Humour is an interdisciplinary survey and analysis of Canadian humour and humorists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book focuses on a variety of genres. It includes celebrated Canadian writers and poets with ironic and satiric perspectives; oral storytellers of tall… read more[Topics in Humor Research, 3] 2015. xxi, 300 pp.
Major versus Minor? – Languages and Literatures in a Globalized World
Edited by Theo D’haen, Iannis Goerlandt and Roger D. Sell
Do the notions of “World Lingua Franca” and “World Literature” now need to be firmly relegated to an imperialist-cum-colonialist past? Or can they be rehabilitated in a practical and equitable way that fully endorses a politics of recognition? For scholars in the field of languages and literatures,… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 1] 2015. xv, 280 pp.
The Mighty Child: Time and power in children's literature
Clémentine Beauvais
The Mighty Child offers an existentialist approach to the theorization and criticism of children’s literature, nuancing the academic claim that children’s literature, specifically defined as ‘didactic’, alienates childhood from adulthood and disempowers its implied child reader. This volume… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 4] 2015. xii, 226 pp.
More about 'Tirant lo Blanc' / Més sobre el 'Tirant lo Blanc': From the sources to the tradition / De les fonts a la tradició
Edited by Anna Maria Babbi and Vicent Josep Escartí
The articles in this volume highlight the fact that the chivalric novel Tirant lo Blanc – written in Valencia by Joanot Martorell in the 15th century and translated into Italian in the 16th century – keeps being relevant in both the Italian and the Iberian Peninsulas, so closely related in past and… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 10] 2015. xiv, 173 pp.
Multilingualism in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
Edited by Dirk Delabastita and Ton Hoenselaars
No literary tradition in early modern Europe was as obsessed with the interaction between the native tongue and its dialectal variants, or with ‘foreign’ languages and the phenomenon of ‘translation’, as English Renaissance drama. Originally published as a themed issue of English Text Construction … read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 73] 2015. viii, 215 pp.
Narrative Matters in Medical Contexts across Disciplines
Edited by Franziska Gygax and Miriam A. Locher
This collection of original chapters gives center stage to the concept of ‘narrative’ in medical contexts. The contributors come from the disciplines of literary and cultural studies, linguistics, psychology, and medicine and work with texts as diverse as autobiographies, graphic novels,… read more[Studies in Narrative, 20] 2015. vii, 217 pp.
Narrative and Identity Construction in the Pacific Islands
Edited by Farzana Gounder
Comprising of more than twenty five percent of the world’s known languages, the Pacific is considered to be the most linguistically diverse region in the world. What unifies the region is the culture of storytelling, which provides a fundamental means for perpetuating cultural knowledge across… read more[Studies in Narrative, 21] 2015. xvi, 260 pp.
The Power of Satire
Edited by Marijke Meijer Drees and Sonja de Leeuw
Satire is clearly one of today’s most controversial socio-cultural topics. In this edited volume, The Power of Satire, it is studied for the first time as a dynamic, discursive mode of performance with the power of crossing and contesting cultural boundaries. The collected essays reflect the… read more[Topics in Humor Research, 2] 2015. xiii, 277 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.
Tradition, Tension and Translation in Turkey
Edited by Şehnaz Tahir Gürçağlar, Saliha Paker and John Milton
The articles in this volume examine historical, cultural, literary and political facets of translation in Turkey, a society in tortuous transformation since the 19th century from empire to nation-state. Some draw attention to tradition in Ottoman practices and agents of translation and… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 118] 2015. xiii, 311 pp.
The Book of the Order of Chivalry / Llibre de l'Ordre de Cavalleria / Libro de la Orden de Caballería
Ramon Llull
The Book of the Order of Chivalry was written in Catalan by Ramon Llull between 1274 and 1276 and is one of the author’s earliest works. After his death, it achieved a wide dissemination throughout Europe in part because it was considered the theoretical manual on knighthood par excellence. The… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 8] 2015. v, 226 pp.
Cognitive Grammar in Literature
Edited by Chloe Harrison, Louise Nuttall, Peter Stockwell and Wenjuan Yuan
This is the first book to present an account of literary meaning and effects drawing on our best understanding of mind and language in the form of a Cognitive Grammar. The contributors provide exemplary analyses of a range of literature from science fiction, dystopia, absurdism and graphic novels… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 17] 2014. xiv, 255 pp.
A Corpus Linguistic Approach to Literary Language and Characterization: Virginia Woolf's The Waves
Giuseppina Balossi
This book focusses on computer methodologies as a way of investigating language and character in literary texts. Both theoretical and practical, it surveys investigations into characterization in literary linguistics and personality in social psychology, before carrying out a computational analysis… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 18] 2014. xxi, 277 pp.
Creative Confluence
Johan F. Hoorn
Creative Confluence is a highly original work, building bridges between physics, biology, technology, economy, organizations, neuropsychology, literature, arts, and cultural history. It is an attempt to explain the process of creativity as a universal principle of nature, cutting through the… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 16] 2014. xv, 320 pp.
Exploring Second Language Creative Writing: Beyond Babel
Edited by Dan Disney
Exploring Second Language Creative Writing continues the work of stabilizing the emerging Creative Writing (SL) discipline. In unique ways, each essay in this book seeks to redefine a tripartite relationship between language acquisition, literatures, and identity. All essays extend B.B. Kachru’s… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 19] 2014. v, 157 pp.
Literary Conceptualizations of Growth: Metaphors and cognition in adolescent literature
Roberta Trites
Literary Conceptualizations of Growth explores those processes through which maturation is represented in adolescent literature by examining how concepts of growth manifest themselves in adolescent literature and by interrogating how the concept of growth structures scholars’ ability to think about… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 2] 2014. viii, 164 pp.
Literary Translation in Modern Iran: A sociological study
Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam
Literary Translation in Modern Iran: A sociological study is the first comprehensive study of literary translation in modern Iran, covering the period from the late 19th century up to the present day. By drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of culture, this work investigates the people behind the… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 114] 2014. xix, 236 pp.
Literature as Dialogue: Invitations offered and negotiated
Edited by Roger D. Sell
How is it that some texts achieve the status of literature? Partly, at least, because the relationship they allow between their writers and the people who respond to them is fundamentally egalitarian. This is the insight explored by members of the Åbo literary communication network, who in this new… read more[Dialogue Studies, 22] 2014. xv, 274 pp.
New Literary Hybrids in the Age of Multimedia Expression: Crossing borders, crossing genres
Edited by Marcel Cornis-Pope
Begun in 2010 as part of the “Histories of Literatures in European Languages” series sponsored by the International Comparative Literature Association, the current project on New Literary Hybrids in the Age of Multimedia Expression recognizes the global shift toward the visual and the virtual in… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXVII] 2014. vii, 455 pp.
Reading for Learning: Cognitive approaches to children's literature
Maria Nikolajeva
How does reading fiction affect young people? How can they transfer fictional experience into real life? Why do they care about fictional characters? How does fiction enhance young people's sense of self-hood? Supported by cognitive psychology and brain research, this ground-breaking book is the… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 3] 2014. viii, 247 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.
Transfiction: Research into the realities of translation fiction
Edited by Klaus Kaindl and Karlheinz Spitzl
This volume on Transfiction (understood as an aestheticized imagination of translatorial action) recognizes the power of fiction as a vital and pulsating academic resource, and in doing so helps expand the breadth and depth of TS. The book covers a selection of peer-reviewed papers from the 1st… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 110] 2014. ix, 373 pp.
'The Dream' of Bernat Metge / Del Somni d'en Bernat Metge
Bernat Metge
Lo Somni (The Dream) is a dream allegory divided into four chapters or books. It was written ca. 1399 and is considered Bernat Metge’s best work. It is extremely innovative within the context of Catalan (and Iberian Peninsular) literature of the 1300’s. It consists of a dialogue between… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 4] 2013. v, 193 pp.
Aesthetic Engagement During Moments of Suffering
Edited by Don Kuiken and Mary Beth Oliver
Special issue of Scientific Study of Literature 3:2 (2013) v, 153 pp.
After the Classics: A translation into English of the selected verse of Vicent Andrés Estellés
Vicent Andrés Estellés
This selection of the verse of Valencian poet Vicent Andres Estelles (1924-1993) is accompanied by a translation into English from the original Catalan. The format of an innovative dialogue with classical authors — a cornerstone of Estellesian expression — constitutes an ingenious invocation and… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 5] 2013. xi, 242 pp.
The Art of Sympathy in Fiction: Forms of ethical and emotional persuasion
Howard Sklar
By taking an interdisciplinary approach — with methods drawn from narratology, aesthetics, social psychology, education, and the empirical study of literature — The Art of Sympathy in Fiction will interest scholars in a variety of fields. Its focus is the sympathetic effects of stories, and the… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 15] 2013. xiv, 192 pp.
The Book of Fortune and Prudence
Bernat Metge
These new translations of Bernat Metge’s Libre de Fortuna e Prudència (1381) into Spanish (verse) and English (prose) make this key early work by 14th-century Catalonia’s most challenging writer available to the wider audience it has longed deserved. As with Metge’s masterwork, Lo somni (The… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 6] 2013. v, 116 pp.
The Ethics of Literary Communication: Genuineness, directness, indirectness
Edited by Roger D. Sell, Adam Borch and Inna Lindgren
Viewing literature as one among other forms of communication, Roger D. Sell and his colleagues evaluate writer-respondent relationships according to the same ethical criterion as applies for dialogue of any other kind. In a nutshell: Are writers and readers respecting each other’s human autonomy?… read more[Dialogue Studies, 19] 2013. xii, 271 pp.
Fictions of Adolescent Carnality: Sexy sinners and delinquent deviants
Lydia Kokkola
Fictions of Adolescent Carnality considers one of the most controversial topics related to adolescents: their experience of desire. In fiction for adolescents, carnal desire is variously presented as a source of angst, an overwhelming experience over which one has no control, bestial, disgusting… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 1] 2013. x, 236 pp.
Iconic Investigations
Edited by Lars Elleström, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg
The contributions to Iconic Investigations deal with linguistic or literary aspects of language. While some studies analyze the cognitive structures of language, others pay close attention to the sounds of spoken language and the visual characteristics of written language. In addition this volume… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 12] 2013. x, 357 pp.
The Macregol Gospels or The Rushworth Gospels: Edition of the Latin text with the Old English interlinear gloss transcribed from Oxford Bodleian Library, MS Auctarium D. 2. 19
Edited by Kenichi Tamoto
This work is composed of two parts. The first or introductory part, contains a palaeographical discussion about Bodleian Library, MS Auctarium D.2.19, that is to say, the MacRegol Gospels or the Rushworth Gospels, edited by Kenichi Tamoto, and which forms the second and main part of this book. The… read more[Not in series, 180] 2013. cxxxix, 339 pp.
Multilingualism in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries
Edited by Dirk Delabastita and Ton Hoenselaars
Special issue of English Text Construction 6:1 (2013) vi, 212 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.
Rethinking Narrative Identity: Persona and Perspective
Edited by Claudia Holler and Martin Klepper
Why is it that we tend to think about our lives as stories? Why do we strive to create coherent narratives that reflect a particular perspective? What happens when we discover multiple, perhaps conflicting perspectives in our narratives? Following groundbreaking work in the study of narrative… read more[Studies in Narrative, 17] 2013. vi, 209 pp.
Translation in Anthologies and Collections (19th and 20th Centuries)
Edited by Teresa Seruya, Lieven D’hulst, Alexandra Assis Rosa and Maria Lin Moniz
Among the numerous discursive carriers through which translations come into being, are channeled and gain readership, translation anthologies and collections have so far received little attention among translation scholars: either they are let aside as almost ungraspable categories, astride editing… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 107] 2013. ix, 287 pp.
Author Representations in Literary Reading
Eefje Claassen
Author Representations in Literary Reading investigates the role of the author in the mind of the reader. It is the first book-length empirical study on generated author inferences by readers of literature. It bridges the gap between theories which hold that the author is irrelevant and those that… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 11] 2012. ix, 272 pp.
Creative Dynamics: Diagrammatic strategies in narrative
Christina Ljungberg
How do readers make sense of a picture, a photograph, or a map in literary narratives in which visual signs play a critical role? How do authors accomplish their various objectives in constructing such complex texts? What strategies and techniques do they use to project fictional worlds and to… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 11] 2012. vii, 190 pp.
Epistemics of the Virtual
Johan F. Hoorn
Proposing a new theory of fiction, this work reviews the confusion about perceived realism, metaphor, virtual worlds and the seemingly obvious distinction between what is true and what is false. The rise of new media, new technology, and creative products and services requires a new examination of… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 12] 2012. x, 231 pp.
Intersections of Intersubjectivity
Edited by Lieselotte Brems, Lobke Ghesquière and Freek Van de Velde
Special issue of English Text Construction 5:1 (2012) v, 152 pp.
Literary Community-Making: The dialogicality of English texts from the seventeenth century to the present
Edited by Roger D. Sell
The writing and reading of so-called literary texts can be seen as processes which are genuinely communicational. They lead, that is to say, to the growth of communities within which individuals acknowledge not only each other’s similarities but differences as well. In this new book, Roger D. Sell… read more[Dialogue Studies, 14] 2012. x, 263 pp.
Playing by Ear and the Tip of the Tongue: Precategorial information in poetry
Reuven Tsur †
In our everyday life we are flooded by a pandemonium of information which consciousness organizes into more easily manageable phonetic and semantic categories. In poetry reading, however, the total effect of a poem is not only obtained by some of these categories but also by precategorial… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 14] 2012. xi, 310 pp.
Post-Socialist Translation Practices: Ideological struggle in children's literature
Nike K. Pokorn
The book Post-Socialist Translation Practices explores how Communism and Socialism, through their hegemonic pressure, found expression in translation practice from the moment of Socialist revolution to the present day. Based on extensive archival research in the archives of the Communist Party and… read more
Postcolonial Polysystems: The production and reception of translated children's literature in South Africa
Haidee Kruger
Postcolonial Polysystems: The Production and Reception of Translated Children’s Literature in South Africa is an original and provocative contribution to the field of children’s literature research and translation studies. It draws on a variety of methodologies to provide a perspective, both… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 105] 2012. xvii, 312 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.
Scientific Methods for the Humanities
Willie van Peer, Frank Hakemulder and Sonia Zyngier
Here is a much needed introductory textbook on empirical research methods for the Humanities. Especially aimed at students and scholars of Literature, Applied Linguistics, and Film and Media, it stimulates readers to reflect on the problems and possibilities of testing the empirical assumptions and… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 13] 2012. xxii, 328 pp.
Textual Choices in Discourse: A view from cognitive linguistics
Edited by Barbara Dancygier, José Sanders and Lieven Vandelanotte
In recent years, research in cognitive linguistics has expanded its interests to cover a variety of texts – spoken, written, or multimodal. Analytical tools such as conceptual metaphor, frame semantics, mental spaces and grammatical constructions have been productively applied in various discourse… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 40] 2012. v, 198 pp.
An Approach to Translation Criticism: Emma and Madame Bovary in translation
Lance Hewson
Lance Hewson's book on translation criticism sets out to examine ways in which a literary text may be explored as a translation, not primarily to judge it, but to understand where the text stands in relation to its original by examining the interpretative potential that results from the… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 95] 2011. ix, 282 pp.
Communicational Criticism: Studies in literature as dialogue
Roger D. Sell
Further developing the line of argument put forward in his Literature as Communication (2000) and Mediating Criticism (2001), Roger D. Sell now suggests that when so-called literary texts stand the test of time and appeal to a large and heterogeneous circle of admirers, this is because they are… read more[Dialogue Studies, 11] 2011. xi, 392 pp.
Contexts, Subtexts and Pretexts: Literary translation in Eastern Europe and Russia
Edited by Brian James Baer
This volume presents Eastern Europe and Russia as a distinctive translation zone, despite significant internal differences in language, religion and history. The persistence of large multilingual empires, which produced bilingual and even polyglot readers, the shared experience of “belated… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 89] 2011. xii, 332 pp.
The Future of Scientific Studies in Literature
Special issue of Scientific Study of Literature 1:1 (2011) iv, 193 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.
Poetry Translating as Expert Action: Processes, priorities and networks
Francis Jones
Poetry is a highly valued form of human expression, and poems are challenging texts to translate. For both reasons, people willingly work long and hard to translate them, for little pay but potentially high personal satisfaction. This book shows how experienced poetry translators translate poems… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 93] 2011. xvi, 227 pp.
Re-Covered Rose: A case study in book cover design as intersemiotic translation
Marco Sonzogni
When a reader picks up a book, the essence of the text has been translated into the visual space of the cover. Using Umberto Eco’s bestseller The Name of the Rose as a case study, this is the first study of book cover design as a form of intersemiotic translation based on the purposeful selection… read more[Not in series, 169] 2011. viii, 181 pp., incl. ills.
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.
Semblance and Signification
Edited by Pascal Michelucci, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg
The articles assembled in Semblance and Signification explore linguistic and literary structures from a range of theoretical perspectives with a view to understanding the extent, prevalence, productivity, and limitations of iconically grounded forms of semiosis. With the complementary examination… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 10] 2011. xii, 427 pp.
Translation and the Problem of Sway
Douglas Robinson
In Translation and the Problem of Sway Douglas Robinson offers the concept of "sway" to bring together discussion of two translational phenomena that have traditionally been considered in isolation, i.e. norms and errors: norms as ideological pressures to conform to the source text, and deviations… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 92] 2011. xiv, 227 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.
Grimm Language: Grammar, Gender and Genuineness in the Fairy Tales
Orrin W. Robinson
Grimm Language addresses a number of issues in the Grimms’ fairy tales from a (Germanic) linguist’s point of view. In sections dealing with the Grimms’ use of regional dialect material, various grammatical constructions, and specific nouns and adjectives in their Children’s and Household Tales, the… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 10] 2010. xi, 190 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.
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.
Storytelling and Drama: Exploring Narrative Episodes in Plays
Hugo Bowles
How do characters tell stories in plays and for what dramatic purpose? This volume provides the first systematic analysis of narrative episodes in drama from an interactional perspective, applying sociolinguistic theories of narrative and insights from conversation analysis to literary dialogue.… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 8] 2010. ix, 216 pp.
Textual choices and discourse genres: Creating meaning through form
Edited by Barbara Dancygier and José Sanders
Special issue of English Text Construction 3:2 (2010) v, 192 pp.
Classical Spanish Drama in Restoration English (1660–1700)
Jorge Braga Riera
From 1660 to c 1700, England set her eyes on Spain and on the seventeenth-century Spanish comedy of intrigue with an aim to import new plots and characters that might appeal to the Anglo-Saxon audience. As a consequence, Hispanic drama in translation enjoyed a period of relative popularity never to… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 85] 2009. xv, 330 pp.
Humane Readings: Essays on literary mediation and communication in honour of Roger D. Sell
Edited by Jason Finch, Martin Gill, Anthony Johnson, Iris Lindahl-Raittila, Inna Lindgren, Tuija Virtanen and Brita Wårvik
Since the 1980s, Roger D. Sell’s literary criticism has striven to take account of the (often conflicting) approaches available without compromising the human importance of the literary work: either in terms of its creation or its reception. Sell’s theory of literature draws strength from the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 190] 2009. xi, 160 pp.
Psyche and the Literary Muses: The contribution of literary content to scientific psychology
Martin S. Lindauer
Psyche and the Literary Muses focuses on the psychology of literature from an empirical point of view, rather than the more typical psychoanalytic position, and concentrates on literary content rather than readers or writers. The book centers on the author’s quantitative studies of brief literary… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 7] 2009. xiii, 209 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.
The Quality of Literature: Linguistic studies in literary evaluation
Edited by Willie van Peer
Evaluation is central to literary studies and has led to an impressive list of publications on the status and history of the canon. Yet it is remarkable how little attention has been given to the role of textual properties in evaluative processes. Most of the chapters in The Quality of Literature… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 4] 2008. ix, 243 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.
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.
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.
Memory and Understanding: Concept formation in Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu
Renate Bartsch
This book treats memory and understanding on two levels, on the phenomenological level of experience, on which a theory of dynamic conceptual semantics is built, and on the neuro-connectionist level, which supports the capacities of concept formation, remembering, and understanding. A… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 63] 2005. x, 158 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.
On the Discourse of Satire: Towards a stylistic model of satirical humour
Paul Simpson
This book advances a model for the analysis of contemporary satirical humour. Combining a range of theoretical frameworks in stylistics, pragmatics and discourse analysis, Simpson examines both the methods of textual composition and the strategies of interpretation for satire. Verbal irony is… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 2] 2003. xiv, 242 pp.
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.
Cognitive Stylistics: Language and cognition in text analysis
Edited by Elena Semino and Jonathan Culpeper
This book represents the state of the art in cognitive stylistics a rapidly expanding field at the interface between linguistics, literary studies and cognitive science. The twelve chapters combine linguistic analysis with insights from cognitive psychology and cognitive linguistics in order to… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 1] 2002. xvi, 333 pp.
Directions in Sign Language Acquisition
Edited by Gary Morgan and Bencie Woll
As the first book of its kind, this volume with contributions from many well known scholars brings together some of the most recent original work on sign language acquisition in children learning a variety of different signed languages (i.e., Brazilian Sign Language, American SL, SL of the… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 2] 2002. xx, 339 pp.
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.
Prague Linguistic Circle Papers: Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague nouvelle série. Volume 4
Edited by Eva Hajičová, Petr Sgall, Jirí Hana and Tomáš Hoskovec
The fourth volume of the revived series of “Travaux du Cercle linguistique de Prague” brings three contributions (by J. Vachek, O. Leška and V. Skalička) connected with the classical period of the Prague School, as well as papers delivered at the conference “Function, Form, and Meaning: Bridges and… read more[Prague Linguistic Circle Papers / Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague N.S., 4] 2002. viii, 376 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.
Linguistic Approaches to Poetry
Edited by Christine Michaux and Marc Dominicy
As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.read more
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 15] 2001. viii, 228 pp.
Mediating Criticism: Literary Education Humanized
Roger D. Sell
In the twentieth century, literature was under threat. Not only was there the challenge of new forms of oral and visual culture. Even literary education and literary criticism could sometimes actually distance novels, poems and plays from their potential audience. This is the trend which Roger D.… read more[Not in series, 108] 2001. x, 431 pp.
Narrative and Identity: Studies in Autobiography, Self and Culture
Edited by Jens Brockmeier and Donal Carbaugh
How does narrative give shape and meaning to human life? And what special role do narratives play in identifying one as a person in the world? This book explores these questions from the vantage points of various human and cultural sciences, with special attention to the importance of narrative as… read more[Studies in Narrative, 1] 2001. vi, 307 pp.
The Psychology and Sociology of Literature: In honor of Elrud Ibsch
Edited by Dick Schram and Gerard J. Steen
The Psychology and Sociology of Literature is a collection of 25 chapters on literature by some of the leading psychologists, sociologists, and literary scholars in the field of the empirical study of literature. Contributors include Ziva Ben-Porat, Gerry Cupchik, Art Graesser, Rachel Giora,… read more[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 35] 2001. viii, 478 pp.
Knowledge and Commitment: A problem-oriented approach to literary studies
Douwe W. Fokkema † and Elrud Ibsch
The authors present a new perspective on a wide range of issues in the study of literature and culture. Some of the topics discussed, such as interpretation, canon formation, and literary historiography, belong to the traditional domain of literary studies. Others — cultural identity, convention,… read more[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 33] 2000. x, 217 pp.
Literature as Communication: The foundations of mediating criticism
Roger D. Sell
This book offers foundations for a literary criticism which seeks to mediate between writers and readers belonging to different historical periods or social groupings. This makes it, among other things, a timely intervention in the postmodern “culture wars”, though the theory put forward will be of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 78] 2000. xiv, 348 pp.
The Moral Laboratory: Experiments examining the effects of reading literature on social perception and moral self-concept
Frank Hakemulder
The idea that reading literature changes the reader seems as old as literature itself. Through the ages philosophers, writers, and literary scholars have suggested it affects norms, empathic ability, self-concept, beliefs, etc. This book examines what we actually know about these effects. And it… read more[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 34] 2000. x, 205 pp.
Poetic Effects: A relevance theory perspective
Adrian Pilkington
Poetic Effects: A Relevance Theory Perspective offers a pragmatic account of the effects achieved by the poetic use of rhetorical tropes and schemes. It contributes to the pragmatics of poetic style by developing work on stylistic effects in relevance theory. It also contributes to literary studies… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 75] 2000. xiv, 209 pp.
The Dual Muse: The Writer as Artist, the Artist as Writer: Papers from the International Writers Center Symposium, 7–9 Nov. 1997
Edited by Lorin Cuoco
For centuries an artist adept in one medium has found solace, encouragement, and inspiration in another, even to the point of merging them. Michelangelo put down his chisel to pick up his pen; Blake pictorialized his poetry; Max Ernst collaged narratives; Gertrude Stein adopted a cubist style. This… read more[Not in series, 90] 1999. 128 pp., 40 bl./wh. ill.
Form Miming Meaning
Edited by Max Nänny and Olga Fischer
The recent past has seen an increasing interest in iconicity especially among linguists. This collection puts the interdisciplinary study of iconic dimensions (comprising what has been termed ‘imagic iconicity’, as well as ‘diagrammatic iconicity’, i.e. iconicity of a more abstract and less… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 1] 1999. xxxvi, 443 pp.
Rimbaud's Rainbow: Literary translation in higher education
Edited by Peter Bush and Kirsten Malmkjær
This selection of papers from the ITI’s landmark First International Colloquium on Literary Translation includes provocative perspectives on the teaching, research and status of literary education in universities. By way of introduction Peter Bush looks at strategies for raising the profile of the… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 21] 1998. x, 202 pp.
The Dual Muse: The Writer as Artist, The Artist as Writer: Catalogue of the Exhibition. Introduction by Cornelia Homburg
William H. Gass and Johanna Drucker
For centuries an artist adept in one medium has found solace, encouragement, and inspiration in another, even to the point of merging them. Michelangelo put down his chisel to pick up his pen; Blake pictorialized his poetry; Max Ernst collaged narratives; Gertrude Stein adopted a cubist style. This… read more[Not in series, 84] 1997. 144 pp., (38 pp. full color; 77 bl./wh. ill.)
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.
Aspects of Literary Comprehension: A cognitive approach
Rolf A. Zwaan
Given the fact that there are widely different types of text, it is unlikely that every text is processed in the same way. It is assumed here that for each text type, proficient readers have developed a particular cognitive control system, which regulates the basic operations of text comprehension.… read more[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 29] 1993. ix, 190 pp.
A History of Russian Symbolism
Ronald E. Peterson
The era of Russian Symbolism (1892-1917) has been called the Silver Age of Russian culture, and even the Second Golden Age. Symbolist authors are among the greatest Russian authors of this century, and their activities helped to foster one of the most significant advances in cultural life (in… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 29] 1993. xii, 254 pp.
Telling Stories: Studies in honour of Ulrich Broich on the occasion of his 60th birthday
Edited by Elmar Lehmann and Bernd Lenz
The contributions in this volume are all related to one of Ulrich Broich's main fields of research and teaching, the way stories are told in the various literary genres. The papers range from Chaucer to 20th-century literature; they discuss poems, prologues, plays and novels, French philosophers… read more[Not in series - Grüner, 141] 1992. x, 335 pp.
Writing History as a Prophet: Postmodernist innovations of the historical novel
Elisabeth Wesseling
This is a postmodernist history of the historical novel with special attention to the political implications of the postmodernist attitude toward the past.Beginning with the poetics of Sir Walter Scott, Wesseling moves via a global survey of 19th century historical fiction to modernist innovations… read more[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 26] 1991. ix, 218 pp.
Convention and Innovation in Literature
Edited by Theo D’haen, Rainer Grübel and Helmut Lethen
This work is a critical evaluation of the concepts of convention and innovation as applied in the study of changing literary values, hierarchies and canons. Two approaches are analyzed: (1) the linking of convention and the subject's awareness of convention, and (2) systems theory. The merits of… read more[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 24] 1989. xxii, 434 pp.
The Difference Within: Feminism and Critical Theory
Edited by Elizabeth A. Meese and Alice A. Parker
The essays in this volume represent the most recent thinking collected on the problematics of feminism and critical theory, engaging the question of the relationship between these terms and the differences within each in terms of the other. As a whole, this piece of an extended conversation within… read more[Critical Theory, 8] 1989. xi, 219 pp.
Russian Literature and Psychoanalysis
Edited by Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
This is a collection of psychoanalytical essays on a broad spectrum of well-known Russian authors, such as Puskin, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Belyj, Tjutcev, Axmatova, and Nabokov. The volume includes some reprints, among which a contribution by Sigmund Freud on Dostoevsky and Parricide'. The majority of… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 31] 1989. x, 485 pp.
Das fremde Wort: Studien zur Interdependenz von Texten
Karl Maurer
[Not in series - Grüner, 74] 1988. 516 pp.
Auctor Ludens: Essays on Play in Literature
Edited by Gerald Guinness and Andrew Hurley
This is a book about play practice rather than play theory. Of course, practice presupposes theory, but here the editors choose to keep general theoretical assumptions under cover rather then force them into explicitness. The contributors to this volume were given free rein to discuss whatsoever… read more[Cultura Ludens, 2] 1986. ix, 204 pp.
Les Avant-gardes littéraires au XXe siècle: Volume I: Histoire
Sous la direction de Jean Weisgerber †
Le présent ouvrage, composé de deux volumes, réunit la documentation la plus complète et variée qui existe à ce jour dans la matière. Conçu comme un authentique travail collectif, il examine les mouvements littéraires d’avant-garde de 1905–1910 à 1975 successivement sous les angles diachronique… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, IV] 1986. 622 pp.
Les Avant-gardes littéraires au XXe siècle: Volume II: Théorie
Sous la direction de Jean Weisgerber †
Le présent ouvrage, composé de deux volumes, réunit la documentation la plus complète et variée qui existe à ce jour dans la matière. Conçu comme un authentique travail collectif, il examine les mouvements littéraires d’avant-garde de 1905–1910 à 1975 successivement sous les angles diachronique… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, V] 1986. 704 pp.
Les Avant-gardes littéraires au XXe siècle: Deux volumes. I: Histoire; II: Théorie
Sous la direction de Jean Weisgerber †
Le présent ouvrage, composé de deux volumes, réunit la documentation la plus complète et variée qui existe à ce jour dans la matière. Conçu comme un authentique travail collectif, il examine les mouvements littéraires d’avant-garde de 1905–1910 à 1975 successivement sous les angles diachronique… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, IV-V] 1986. 622, 704 pp.
Discourse and Literature: New Approaches to the Analysis of Literary Genres
Edited by Teun A. van Dijk
Discourse and Literature boldly integrates the analysis of literature and non-literary genres in an innovative embracing study of discourse. Narrative, poetry, drama, myths, songs, letters, Biblical discourse and graffiti as well as stylistics and rhetorics are the topics treaded by twelve… read more[Critical Theory, 3] 1985. vii, 245 pp.
Translating Poetic Discourse: Questions of feminist strategies in Adrienne Rich
Myriam Díaz-Diocaretz
Translating Poetic Discourse argues in favor of a critical model that bridges between translation and women’s studies on theoretical and practical levels. It proposes key-elements to be integrated into the problem of interpretation of contemporary poetry by women, and discusses the links between… read more[Critical Theory, 2] 1985. vii, 167 pp
Pararealities: The Nature of Our Fictions and How We Know Them
Floyd Merrell
The objective of this study is to inquire, from a broad epistemological view, into the underlying nature of fictions, and above all, to discover how it is possible to create and process them. In Chapter One, I put forth four "postulates" in the form of though experiments. in Chapter Two I turn… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 12] 1983. xii, 170 pp.
Text to Reader: A Communicative Approach to Fowles, Barth, Cortazar, and Boon
Theo D’haen
Text to Reader seeks to find a critical approach that links a novel’s form to its socio-cultural context. Combining elements from Iser’s reception aesthetics, speech act theory, and Goffman’s frame analysis, this book starts from the assumption that a reader has certain conventional expectations… read more[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 16] 1983. x, 162 pp.
Language, Literature & Meaning: Volume II: Current Trends in Literary Research
Edited by John Odmark
The essays in this two-volume anthology provide the reader with an overview of current Czech, Polish and Hungarian research in language, literature and meaning as well as some new perspectives on the major theoretical contributions of Roman Ingarden, Georg Lukács and Jan Mukařovský. For the most… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 2] 1980. x, 569 pp.
Language, Literature & Meaning: Volume I: Problems of Literary Theory
Edited by John Odmark
The essays in this two-volume anthology provide the reader with an overview of current Czech, Polish and Hungarian research in language, literature and meaning as well as some new perspectives on the major theoretical contributions of Roman Ingarden, Georg Lukács and Jan Mukařovský. For the most… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 1] 1979. x, 467 pp.
Der ästhetische Inhalt: Zur semantischen Funktion poetischer Verfahren
Wolf Schmid
[Not in series - Grüner, 94] 1977. 113 pp.
Festival and Fiction in Heinrich Wittenwiler's 'Ring': A Study of the Narrative in its Relation to the Traditional Topoi of Marriage, Folly and Play
Rolf R. Mueller
This volume investigates Heinrich Wittenwiler’s famous poem Ring. Main focus is the relation of the narrative to the traditional topoi of marriage, folly, and play. read more[German Language and Literature Monographs, 3] 1977. viii, 155 pp.
Themes and Variations in Pasternak's Poetics
Krystyna Pomorska
[Not in series - Grüner, 126] 1975. 92 pp.
Dizionario di Mitologia Egizia. Volumes 1–3: Reprint of the edition Torino, 1881–1888
R.V. Lanzone
For this re-edition the original text has been corrected, augmented, and updated by Dr. Mario TOSI (Soprintendenza per la Antichità Egizie, Torino). The reprint has been accomplished by the publication of a new 4th volume, thusfar unpublished. Volume 4: From a thusfar unpublished manuscript of… read more[Not in series, 3] 1974. 1312 pp., 408 tabs., autogr., large 8-vo.
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.
Aurelius Ambrosius, “Der Vater des Kirchengesanges”: Eine hymnologische Studie. 1893
Guido Maria Dreves
[Not in series - Grüner, 34] 1968. viii, 146 pp.