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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.

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

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXXV] 2024. xiv, 550 pp. | open access

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.

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.

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.

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.

Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives. Volume I: Mapping realism

Edited by Dirk Göttsche, Rosa Mucignat and Robert Weninger

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXXII] 2021. xvii, 814 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

L'Époque de la Renaissance (1400–1600): Tome II: La nouvelle culture (1480–1520)

Sous la direction de Eva Kushner

La nouvelle culture (1480-1520) vient compléter la sous-série Renaissance de l’ « Histoire comparée des littératures de langues européennes », ce qui ne nuit en rien à sa vocation unique; car les quarante années, son objet, englobent un extraordinaire ensemble de développements culturels répondant… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXX] 2017. viii, 544 pp.

Nordic Literature: A comparative history. Volume I: Spatial nodes

Edited by Steven P. Sondrup, Mark B. Sandberg, Thomas A. DuBois and Dan Ringgaard

Nordic Literature: A comparative history is a multi-volume comparative analysis of the literature of the Nordic region. Bringing together the literature of Finland, continental Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Sápmi), and the insular region (Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands), each… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXXI] 2017. xvi, 747 pp.

The Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula series: 2 vols. set

In 1935 the Portuguese scholar Fidelino de Figueiredo published the book Pyrene as based in his lectures at Columbia University in 1931. In it, Figuereido makes use of the beautiful myth of Pyrene, a lover of Hercules, who created a tomb for her by piling up rocks, thus creating the mountain range… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, CHLIPS:SET] 2016. 1514 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 24 (2012)

Edited by Richard Trachsler, Baudouin Van den Abeele and Paul Wackers

[Reinardus, 24] 2012. vi, 259 pp.

L'Époque de la Renaissance (1400–1600): Tome III: maturations et mutations (1520–1560)

Sous la direction de Eva Kushner

Au sein de la vaste entreprise qu'est l'Histoire comparée des littératures de langues européennes, la sous-série portant sur la Renaissance, dont fait partie le volume que voici, représente à plusieurs égards une gageure novatrice. La Renaissance a souvent et abondamment été étudiée comme… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXVI] 2011. ix, 636 pp.

Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 23 (2011)

Edited by Richard Trachsler, Baudouin Van den Abeele and Paul Wackers

[Reinardus, 23] 2011. vi, 218 pp.

The Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe series: 4 vols. set

The four-volume History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe is the first transnational study of a complex region that is conceived here as a strip of land between the German and Russian hegemonic cultures, stretching from the Baltic Countries to Bulgaria and Albania and from the Ukraine… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, LIT:SET] 2010.

Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 22 (2010)

Edited by Baudouin Van den Abeele and Paul Wackers

[Reinardus, 22] 2010. iv, 207 pp.

Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 21 (2009)

Edited by Baudouin Van den Abeele and Paul Wackers

[Reinardus, 21] 2009. iv, 220 pp.

Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 20 (2007/2008)

Edited by Baudouin Van den Abeele and Paul Wackers

[Reinardus, 20] 2008. 200 pp.

Romantic Prose Fiction

Edited by Gerald Gillespie, Manfred Engel and Bernard Dieterle

In this volume a team of three dozen international experts presents a fresh picture of literary prose fiction in the Romantic age seen from cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspectives. The work treats the appearance of major themes in characteristically Romantic versions, the power of… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXIII] 2008. xxi, 733 pp.

The Romanticism series: 5 vols. set

The Romanticism series in the Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages is the result of a remarkable international collaboration. The editorial team coordinated the efforts of over 100 experts from more than two dozen countries to produce five independently conceived, yet… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, ROM:SET] 2008. 5 vols.

Modernism

Edited by Astradur Eysteinsson and Vivian Liska

The two-volume work Modernism has been awarded the prestigious 2008 MSA Book Prize! Modernism has constituted one of the most prominent fields of literary studies for decades. While it was perhaps temporarily overshadowed by postmodernism, recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXI] 2007. xii, 1043 pp. (2 vols.)

Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 19 (2006)

Edited by Baudouin Van den Abeele and Paul Wackers

[Reinardus, 19] 2007. iv, 198 pp.

History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume II

Edited by Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer

Continuing the work undertaken in Vol. 1 of the History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe, Vol. 2 considers various topographic sites—multicultural cities, border areas, cross-cultural corridors, multiethnic regions—that cut across national boundaries, rendering them permeable to the… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XX] 2006. xiv, 512 pp.

Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 18 (2005)

Edited by Baudouin Van den Abeele and Paul Wackers

[Reinardus, 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.

L'Aube de la Modernité 1680-1760

Sous la direction de Peter-Eckhard Knabe, Roland Mortier et François Moureau

The purpose of this collective work is to throw new light on a period which is defined, neither in historical, nor in ideological terms, but along specific literary criteria. Across the XVIIth and the XVIIIth century, a new perspective appears on the status of literature and its relation to the… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XVI] 2002. viii, 554 pp.

Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 15 (2002)

Edited by Brian J. Levy and Paul Wackers

[Reinardus, 15] 2002. vi, 210 pp. + 16 ills.

Romantic Poetry

Edited by Angela Esterhammer

Romantic Poetry encompasses twenty-seven new essays by prominent scholars on the influences and interrelations among Romantic movements throughout Europe and the Americas. It provides an expansive overview of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry in the European languages. The essays take… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XVII] 2002. xii, 537 pp.

Die Wende von der Aufklärung zur Romantik 1760–1820: Epoche im Überblick

Herausgegeben von Horst Albert Glaser und György M. Vajda †

This volume is the twelfth to date in a series of works in French or English presenting the epochs and movements of a Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages (Histoire Comparée des Littératures de Langues Européennes). The original intention of the editors was to publish a… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XIV] 2001. x, 760 pp.

A History of Literature in the Caribbean: Volume 2: English- and Dutch-speaking regions

Edited by A. James Arnold

For the first time the Dutch-speaking regions of the Caribbean and Suriname are brought into fruitful dialogue with another major American literature, that of the anglophone Caribbean. The results are as stimulating as they are unexpected. The editors have coordinated the work of a distinguished… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XV] 2001. x, 672 pp.

The History of Literature in the Caribbean series: 3 vols. set

A History of Literature in the Caribbean presents, in three volumes, the only comparative study yet attempted of the Caribbean as a literary region including all four major European languages (Dutch, English, French and Spanish). The Spanish- and French-language literatures are treated in volume… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, HIST:SET] 2001.

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.

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.

Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 14 (2001)

Edited by Brian J. Levy and Paul Wackers

[Reinardus, 14] 2001. vi, 312 pp. + 16 pp. ill.

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.

Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 11 (1998)

Edited by Brian J. Levy and Paul Wackers

The aim of Reinardus is to promote comparative research in the fields of medieval comic, satirical, didactic and allegorical literature (with emphasis on beast epic, fable and fabliau), including sources, influences and later developments into the modern period. The methods and critical… read more

[Reinardus, 11] 1998. 246 pp. + ills.

The Virtues of Language: History in language, linguistics and texts. Papers in memory of Thomas Frank

Edited by Dieter Stein and Rosanna Sornicola

The volume contains 13 specially written specialist articles on a wide range of subjects within the ambit of the history of the English language and prominent literary uses of it. In uniting linguistic and literary pursuits in a single volume, it follows the noble Neapolitan scholars research… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 87] 1998. viii, 232 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.)

A History of Literature in the Caribbean: Volume 3: Cross-Cultural Studies

Edited by A. James Arnold

Cross-Cultural Studies is the culminating effort of a distinguished team of international scholars who have worked since the mid-1980s to create the most complete analysis of Caribbean literature ever undertaken. Conceived as a major contribution to postcolonial studies, cultural studies, cultural… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XII] 1997. xviii, 399 pp.

The Muzzled Muse: Literature and censorship in South Africa

Margreet de Lange

“The long history of censorship is a parallel and equally powerful history of literature. Censors bear witness to the power of the word even more forcefully than the writers and the readers they consider dangerous.” (Index on Censorship 6/1996)A critical assessment of literature produced under… read more

[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 32] 1997. x, 181 pp.

Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 10 (1997)

Edited by Brian J. Levy and Paul Wackers

The aim of Reinardus is to promote comparative research in the fields of medieval comic satirical, didactic and allegorical literature (with emphasis on beast epic, fable and fabliau), including sources, influences and later developments into the modern period. The methods and critical… read more

[Reinardus, 10] 1997. 235 pp. + 16 ills.

Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 9 (1996)

Edited by Brian J. Levy and Paul Wackers

[Reinardus, 9] 1996. vi, 216 pp.

The Search for a New Alphabet: Literary studies in a changing world

Edited by Harald Hendrix, Joost J. Kloek, Sophie Levie and Willie van Peer

Literary Studies is currently going through a deep transformation, preparing itself for the launch into the twenty-first century.The present volume, which is dedicated to Douwe Fokkema on the occasion of his retirement from Utrecht University, captures this transformation in a number of squibs by a… read more

[Not in series, 76] 1996. x, 326 pp.

Studies in Stemmatology

Edited by Pieter van Reenen and Margot van Mulken

This volume contains ten papers selected from among those presented at the annual Free University Stemmatological Colloquia 1990-93. Current issues in (automated) stemmatology, paleography and codicology are addressed from contemporary theoretical perspectives. All papers focus on new directions in… read more

[Not in series, 79] 1996. xvi, 311 pp.

Literature, Criticism, and the Theory of Signs

Victorino Tejera

Following Peirce in his non-reductive understanding of the theory of signs as a branch of aesthetics, this book reconceptualizes the processes of literary creation, appreciation and reading in semiotic terms. Here is a carefully developed theory of what sort of criteria serve to distinguish… read more

[Semiotic Crossroads, 7] 1995. x, 168 pp.

Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 8 (1995)

Edited by Brian J. Levy and Paul Wackers

[Reinardus, 8] 1995. vi, 226 pp.

Bestia: Yearbook of the Beast Fable Society. Volume 6 (1994)

Edited by Benjamin Bennani

Bestia presents articles dealing with the beast fable and its sister genres in all literatures, languages and periods. It yearly publishes a selection of the most distinguished papers read at the annual International Congress of the Beast Fable Society. The present volume contains papers from the… read more

[Bestia, 6] 1994. 135 pp.

A History of Literature in the Caribbean: Volume 1: Hispanic and Francophone Regions

Edited by A. James Arnold, Julio Rodriguez-Luis and J. Michael Dash

This history for the first time charts the literature of the entire Caribbean, the islands as well as continental littoral, as one cultural region. It breaks new ground in establishing a common grid for reading literatures that have been kept separate by their linguistic frontiers. Readers will… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, X] 1994. xviii, 579 pp.

Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 7 (1994)

Edited by Brian J. Levy and Paul Wackers

Reinardus aims at the promoting of comparative research in the fields of medieval comic, satirical didactic, and allegorical literature (with emphasis on beast epic, fable, and fablau), including sources, influences and later developments into the modern period. The methods and critical… read more

[Reinardus, 7] 1994. iv, 236 pp. + 17 ills.

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.

Bestia: Yearbook of the Beast Fable Society. Volume 5 (1993)

Edited by Benjamin Bennani

Bestia presents articles dealing with the beast fable and its sister genres in all literatures, languages and periods. It yearly publishes a selection of the most distinguished papers read at the annual International Congress of the Beast Fable Society. read more

[Bestia, 5] 1993. 122 pp.

Cultural Participation: Trends since the Middle Ages

Edited by Ann Rigney and Douwe W. Fokkema †

Culture is studied in this collection, not merely as a set of products, but in terms of the involvement of individuals and groups in the making and using of such products. A wide range of activities, from the reading and writing of poetry to watching soccer on television, is surveyed by an… read more

[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 31] 1993. x, 261 pp.

Fictional Realities: The uses of literary imagination

J.J.A. Mooij

This book is a study of the role of the imagination. It focuses on the imaginative use of language in literature (poetry and narrative prose); but it also touches on some more comprehensive issues, for the questions it discusses are questions regarding the relationship between mind, reality and… read more

[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 30] 1993. xii, 290 pp.

The Fox and Other Animals: Special volume / Numéro spécial. Reinardus. Yearbook of the International Reynard Society (1993)

Edited by Brian J. Levy and Paul Wackers

This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the Sixth Beast Epic, Fable & Fabliau Colloquium (Spa, Belgium, 1985). read more

[Reinardus, SI] 1993. vii, 212 pp., 7 ills

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.

Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 6 (1993)

Edited by Brian J. Levy and Paul Wackers

[Reinardus, 6] 1993. 248 pp. + 19 ills.

Romantic Drama

Edited by Gerald Gillespie

In Romantic Drama, three dozen comparatists join forces for a supranational, crosscultural reexamination of the deep paradigm shifts appearing around the start of the nineteenth century which revolutionized drama as a literary art within the enormous civilization constituted by Europe and her… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, IX] 1993. xvi, 516 pp.

Bestia: Yearbook of the Beast Fable Society. Volume 4 (1992)

Edited by Benjamin Bennani

[Bestia, 4] 1992. 138 pp.

Between Signs and Non-Signs

Ferruccio Rossi-Landi

The Italian philosopher F. Rossi-Landi (1921-1985) conducted pioneering work in the philosophy of language. His research is characterised by a critique of language and ideology in relation to sign production processes and the process of social reproduction. Between Signs and Non-Signs is a… read more

[Critical Theory, 10] 1992. xxix, 322 pp.

El metateatro y la dramática de Vargas Llosa: Hacia una poética del espectador

Oscar Rivera-Rodas

Rivera-Rodas proposes a new concept about what he calls the poetics of the theatrical reception. The discussion of this phenomenon, which also deals with meta theater, focuses on the dramatic work of Mario Vargas Llosa. Examination of the complex relationships of contemporary dramatic structures… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 41] 1992. viii, 213 pp.

Feminist Critical Negotiations

Edited by Alice A. Parker and Elizabeth A. Meese

This volume is a collection of original contributions in the field of feminist critical theory which reflect upon past practices and suggest new strategies and directions for future work. The articles are presented in two non-exclusive, interactive sections: “Theorizing Feminist Criticism” and “The… read more

[Critical Theory, 9] 1992. xiv, 188 pp.

Figures of the Text: Reading and writing (in) La Fontaine

Michael Vincent

The works of Jean de La Fontaine have invited an extraordinary variety of readings in the three centuries since their composition. By engaging selected fables and tales with contemporary notions of intertextuality, reader reception theory, and grammatology, Figures of the Text raises questions… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 39] 1992. xi, 154 pp.

Fundamentals of Story Logic: Introduction to Greimassian semiotics

Therese Budniakiewicz

Drawing largely on Propp's and Greimas' work on the narrative, this book is aimed at consolidating and extending their views through a series of concrete applications. The volume offers a critical examination of narrative structure in terms of its two basic syntactic units or sets of operations,… read more

[Semiotic Crossroads, 5] 1992. xiv, 230 pp.

Le Romantisme aux enchères: Ducange, Pixerécourt, Hugo

Marie-Pierre Le Hir

Reassessing the theoretical usefulness of the “high/low culture” perspective often found in writings on Romantic theater, this book shows how this dichotomy has obscured the centrality of melodrama as a dominant mode of Romantic expression in post-revolutionary France. The book focuses on Victor… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 42] 1992. x, 225 pp.

Lorca, una escritura en trance: 'Libro de poemas' y 'Divan del Tamarit'

Candelas Newton

Lorca's poetry is founded upon a complex symbolical system of recurring motifs. This book analyses a number of those motifs as poetic signs through a contextual reading of Libro de poemas (1921) and Diván del Tamarit (1940) as the initial and final stages of Lorca's career. The sexual and religious… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 40] 1992. x, 250 pp.

Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 5 (1992)

Edited by Brian J. Levy and Paul Wackers

Reinardus aims at the promoting of comparative research in the fields of medieval comic, satirical, didactic, and allegorical literature (with emphasis on beast epic, fable, and fabliau), including sources, influences and later developments into the modern period. The methods and critical… read more

[Reinardus, 5] 1992. 246 pp., 19 ills.

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.

Flaubert's Straight and Suspect Saints: The Unity of 'Trois contes'

Aimee Israel-Pelletier

Israel Pelletier argues that Trois contes demands a different kind of reading which distinguishes it from Madame Bovary and other Flaubert texts. By the time he wrote this late work, Flaubert's attitude toward his characters and the role of fiction had changed to accommodate different social,… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 36] 1991. xii, 165 pp

The Hospitable Canon: Essays on literary play, scholarly choice, and popular pressures

Edited by Virgil Nemoianu and Robert Royal

The papers in this book respond to the public debate over literary canons, in the United States, and elsewhere, by placing the political-ideological aspects of the conflict inside perspectives derived from comparative literature. Canons are seen by most of the contributors as based on democratic… read more

[Cultura Ludens, 4] 1991. x, 268 pp.

Identity and Ideology: Diderot, Sade, and the Serious Genre

Julie Candler Hayes

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 35] 1991. xiv, 186 pp.

La Parodia en la nueva novela hispanoamericana (1960–1985)

Elżbieta Skłodowska

In this brilliant overview of parodic praxis in the Spanish-American novel during the years 1960-1985, Elzbieta Skłodowska examines several aspects of parody: its role in the renovation of anachronistic forms of discourse (mock-epic) and the re-writing of the canon of the historical novel; its… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 34] 1991. xx, 220 pp.

Michel Tournier's Metaphysical Fictions

Susan Petit

This study of the fictional themes and techniques of Michel Tournier reveals his profound radicalism as a social critic and novelist despite the seeming conventionality of his works. Guided by Tournier's essays and interviews, Petit examines his fiction in light of plot sources, philosophical and… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 37] 1991. xvi, 224 pp.

Mimesis in Contemporary Theory: An interdisciplinary approach: Volume 2: Mimesis, semiosis and power

Edited by Ronald Bogue

The essays collected in this volume focus on the interrelated themes of mimesis, semiosis and power, each study exploring some facet of the problem of representation and its relation to strategies of power in the use of verbal and visual signs. Topics discussed include mimesis and power in Plato's… read more

[Cultura Ludens, 1:2] 1991. viii, 210 pp.

Mirages de la farce: Fête des fous, Bruegel et Molière

Thierry Boucquey

Establishing the notion of reasonable foolishness and foolish reason as a generic principle of the old French farce, Boucquey's study examines the interdependencies among four key mimetic phenomena: the demented universe of the Feast of Fools festival, the genre of the farce, Bruegel's… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 33] 1991. xviii, 158 pp., 9 ills.

Poetry as Play: 'Gongorismo' and the 'Comedia.'

María Cristina Quintero

During the Golden Age, poetry and drama entered into a dynamic intertextual and intergeneric exchange. The Comedia appropriated the different poetic currents prevalent during the Renaissance and also often enacted the controversies surrounding poetic language. Of particular interest is the… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 38] 1991. xviii, 260 pp.

Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 4 (1991)

Edited by Brian J. Levy and Paul Wackers

[Reinardus, 4] 1991. ii, 250 pp., 15 ills.

The Search for Self-Definition in Russian Literature

Edited by Ewa M. Thompson

In Gorbachev's Russia and outside of it the strength and scope of Russian nationalism is currently a subject of strenuous scholarly debate. The many and varied forms national ideology takes in Russian literature are the subject of this collection of essays. Over the past two hundred years Russians… read more

[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 27] 1991. xvi, 216 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.

Calderón y el Barroco: Exaltación y engaño de los sentidos

María Alicia Amadei-Pulice

Amadei-Pulice examines the conflict between Lope's dramatic formula (comedia) and the new polytechnic formula that in the hands of Calderon merged dramatic poetry with visual and auditory effects (comedia de teatro). The author places the Spanish baroque theater within the wider context of a… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 31] 1990. xii, 258 pp., 33 ills.

Courtly Literature: Culture and Context. Proceedings of the 5th triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society, Dalfsen, The Netherlands, 9–16 Aug. 1986

Edited by Keith Busby and Erik Kooper

The International Courtly Literature Society aims to promote the study of courtly literature, primarily, but not exclusively, of medieval Europe. The 45 articles selected here from the papers presented at the 5th Congress center around three themes: rhetoric and courtly literature, the audience of… read more

[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 25] 1990. xvi, 621 pp.

Gender and Representation: Women in Spanish realist fiction

Lou Charnon-Deutsch

Applying recent European and Anglo-American feminist scholarship to the problems of gender representation, Charnon-Deutsch challenges the prevailing idea that the 19th-century Spanish novel is woman centered. The author's examination of novels by Valera, Pereda, Alas, and Galdos demonstrates that… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 32] 1990. xiv, 205 pp.

Reading 'La Regenta': Duplicitous discourse and the entropy of structure

Stephanie A. Sieburth

Criticism of La Regenta has until recently focused on the text's plot as an extraordinarily coherent and convincing fictional world. Stephanie A. Sieburth demonstrates that the devices which produce order in the text are counterbalanced by an equally strong tendency toward entropy of meaning. The… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 29] 1990. viii, 127 pp.

Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 3 (1990)

Edited by Brian J. Levy and Paul Wackers

The aim of the International Reynard Society is to promote comparative research in the fields of medieval comic, satirical, didactic, and allegorical literature (with emphasis on beast epic, fable, and fabliau), including the study of sources, influences, and later developments into the modern… read more

[Reinardus, 3] 1990. viii, 240 pp.

Visions in Exile: The body in Spanish literature and linguistics, 1500–1800

Malcolm K. Read

Malcolm K. Read employs a psychoanalytic model which sees civilization as a manner of instinctual renunciation in this analysis of selected texts from the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Focusing on their moments of silence and contradiction, he demonstrates that certain attitudes… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 30] 1990. xii, 211 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.

An Hour in Elfland: Das Theatermotiv im Roman des amerikanischen Naturalismus

H.Joachim Gerke

[Bochumer anglistische Studien, 22] 1989. viii, 441 pp.

Le Cid: Tragi-comédie: Edition critique

Pierre Corneille

Margitic's critical edition of Pierre Corneille's Le Cid (1637) provides scholar and student with a complete, accurate resource for the study of this famous play. The original text is reproduced, with subsequent variants indicated in footnotes. The book begins with an introduction which examines… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 28] 1989. lxxxviii, 302 pp.

Modelos dialógicos en la narrativa de Benito Pérez Galdós

Alicia G. Andreu

Benito Perez Galdos sought a new narrative structure which would revitalize the literary models prevalent in 19th-century Spain. He found such a structure in the creation of a dialogue between normally incompatible texts between old and new, national and foreign, high culture and low. From the… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 27] 1989. xvi, 126 pp.

Paris School Semiotics: Volume I: Theory

Edited by Paul Perron and Frank Collins

It has often been claimed that the aim of semiotics is to establish a general theory of systems of signification. However, as Jean-Claude Coquet notes in a recent collection of essays, what distinguishes one school of semiotics from another is the initial definition given of sign. If, for certain… read more

[Semiotic Crossroads, 2] 1989. xxviii, 257 pp.

Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 2 (1989)

Edited by Brian J. Levy and Paul Wackers

[Reinardus, 2] 1989.

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.

Semiotics of the Drama and the Style of Eugene O'Neill

Mark Kobernick

A semiotic analysis is made of the six major plays by Eugene O'Neill and an attempt is made to yield a systematic analysis towards humanistic interpretations of texts. Theoretical interpretations are enriched with discussions of the plays. Technical matters such as the segmentation of the text are… read more

[Foundations of Semiotics, 19] 1989. xiv, 162 pp.

'Yvain' dans le miroir: Une poétique de la reflexion dans le 'Chevalier au lion' de Chrétien de Troyes

Joan Tasker Grimbert

This study views the pervasive ambiguity of Chretien's romances as a positive quality and focuses on the techniques used in Yvain to encourage reflection. An adversative structure informs this romance, setting up a disconcerting rhythm of false belief and reversal which forces the reader/listener… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 25] 1988. xii, 226 pp.

Das fremde Wort: Studien zur Interdependenz von Texten

Karl Maurer

[Not in series - Grüner, 74] 1988. 516 pp.

Die Rezeption der Komödien des Plautus und Terenz im 19. Jahrhundert: Theorie-Bearbeitung-Bühne

Barbara Kes

[Not in series - Grüner, 58] 1988. x, 347 pp.

The Divine Comedy and the Encyclopedia of Arts and Sciences: Acta of the International Dante Symposium, 13–16 Nov. 1983, Hunter College, New York

Edited by Giuseppe C. Di Scipio and Aldo Scaglione

The guiding principle of this volume is the concept of the artes liberales, the trivium and quadrivium, as branches of learning that are rooted in Dante Alighieri’s mind. The present volume contains essays by leading international scholars on the various scientific and artistic disciplines which… read more

[Not in series, 34] 1988. ix, 385 pp.

Imitación y transformación: El petrarquismo en la poesía de Boscán y Garcilaso de la Vega

Anne J. Cruz

Aunque en Italia la imitación como ejercicio literario formaba ya parte integrante de la preceptiva poética, para los escritores castellanos del siglo XVI representaba una manera nueva de aproximarse tanto a los clásicos greco-latinos como a los italianos más recientes. La imitatio enlaza a España… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 26] 1988. x, 158 pp.

L'Époque de la Renaissance (1400–1600): Tome I: L'avènement de l'esprit nouveau (1400–1480)

Sous la direction de Tibor Klaniczay, Eva Kushner et André Stegmann

Le nouveau volume de la série Histoire comparée des littératures de langues européennes constitue lui-même la première partie d'un ensemble de quatre volumes. Ces volumes sont consacrés à une période de 200 ans qui dans l'histoire de la civilisation des peuples d'Europe porte le nom de Renaissance.… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, VII] 1988. 594 pp.

Literary Anthropology: A new interdisciplinary approach to people, signs and literature

Edited by Fernando Poyatos

The traditional gulf between the theory and practice of literature and the various areas subjoined under anthropology has hindered the development of some very fruitful perspectives in the realm of poetics and the general theory of literature (particularly in its narrative forms). Poyatos' initial… read more

[Not in series, 36] 1988. xxiii, 353 pp.

Mars Ultor in Ovids Fasten

Rita Riedl

[Heuremata: Studien zu Literatur, Sprachen und Kultur der Antike, 10] 1988. 120 pp.

Maupassant: the Semiotics of Text: Practical Exercises

Algirdas Julien Greimas

Translated by Paul Perron Maupassant's short story, “Two Friends”, is examined in order to test methodological tools and to hone them for their application in the analysis of narrative discourse, starting from the oral tale (Propp) and ending with the written tale instituted as literary genre.… read more

[Semiotic Crossroads, 1] 1988. xxxiv, 258 pp.

Ordnung und Chaos: Das englische Restaurationsdrama 1660–1685

Elmar Lehmann

[Beihefte zu Poetica, 19] 1988. 194 pp.

Prousts 'A la recherche du temps perdu' und die Form der Autobiographie: Zum Verhältnis fiktionaler und pragmatischer Erzähltexte

Ursula Link-Heer

[Beihefte zu Poetica, 18] 1988. 348 pp.

Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 1 (1988)

Edited by Brian J. Levy and Paul Wackers

[Reinardus, 1] 1988.

Romantic Irony

Edited by Frederick Garber

This is the first collaborative international reading of irony as a major phenomenon in Romantic art and thought. The volume identifies key predecessor moments that excited Romantic authors and the emergence of a distinctly Romantic theory and practice of irony spreading to all literary genres. Not… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, VIII] 1988. 395 pp.

The Fabliaux: Tales of Wit and Deception

Mary Jane Stearns Schenck

This is an interesting book that provides a sane analysis of the relation between form and meaning in the fabliaux. It will henceforth be standard reading for those dealing with what nevertheless remains one of the most problematic genres of Old French Literature for the modern scholar.Keith Busby,… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 24] 1987. xiii, 168 pp.

Film-Script: William Shakespeare: Eine Untersuchung der Filmbearbeitungen von Shakespeares Dramen am Beispiel ausgewählter Tragödien-Verfilmungen von 1945–1985

Hans-Joachim Prümm

[Münchner Studien zur Neueren englischen Literatur, 3] 1987. xvi, 439 pp.

Intimate, Intrusive and Triumphant: Readers in the 'Liaisons dangereuses'

Peter V. Jr. Conroy

In both the real and the symbolic sense, the action of the Liaisons is writing letters, which is to say, giving the phrase an ontological twist, that writing is its own subject. Letters in an epistolary novel recount and reenact simultaneously, without distinction. Doing and telling are congruent,… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 23] 1987. xi, 139 pp.

Poetics of Expressiveness: A Theory and Application

Yu Shcheglov and A. Zholkovsky

The volume presents for the first time in book form in English the work of two major representatives of the so-called Moscow-Tartu school. The Introduction outlines their project for a poetics of expressiveness against the background of the structural-semiotic movement of the '60s and '70s. Part I… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 18] 1987. ix, 361 pp.

Theory of Performing Arts

André Helbo

n recent years, the post structuralist theories seem to have created a split in theatrological research. But, as André Helbo analyses in this book , a dialectic theory of the semiotic and the symbolic exchange bring to light a specific paradigm. From his wide experience as a semiotician and a… read more

[Critical Theory, 5] 1987. viii, 153 pp.

André Breton: Sketch for an Early Portrait

John Matthews

Breton's stature is much greater than that of a number of contemporaries who have received, already, far more attention from the critics than he. It provides justification without excuse, especially when the commentator's purpose is to shed light on the intricacies of Breton's mind, the… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 22] 1986. xii, 176 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.

Balzac und der Effet de Réel: Eine Untersuchung anhand der Textstufen dus 'Colonel Chabert' und des 'Curé de village'

Joachim Küpper

[Beihefte zu Poetica, 17] 1986. 290 pp.

Bibliography of Semiotics, 1975–1985

Compiled by Achim Eschbach and Viktoria Eschbach-Szabó

This bibliography of semiotic studies covering the years 1975-1985 impressively reveals the world-wide intensification in the field. During this decade, national semiotic societies have been founded allover the world; a great number of international, national, and local semiotic conferences have… read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 16] 1986. 948 pp. Bound in 2 vols.

European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa

Edited by Albert S. Gérard

The first major comparative study of African writing in western languages, European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by Albert S. Gérard, falls into four wide-ranging sections: an overview of early contacts and colonial developments “Under Western Eyes”; chapters on “Black… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, VI] 1986. 1288 pp. 2 volumes

John McGrath und die 7:84 Company Scotland: Politik, Popularität und Regionalismus im Theater der siebziger Jahre in Schottland

Andreas Jäger

[Münchner Studien zur Neueren englischen Literatur, 1] 1986. 262 pp.

The Language of Evaluation: A Sociolinguistic Approach to the Story of Pedro el Cruel in Ballad and Chronicle

Louise Mirrer-Singer

This study seeks to demonstrate that throughout centuries of re-creation, linguistic devices have been used to support both the production and the reproduction of the romances. On the basis of this demonstration, it is argued that it is time to recognize these devices as evaluators and to include a… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 20] 1986. xii, 128 pp.

Les Avant-gardes littéraires au XX^e 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 XX^e siècle: Volume II: Théorie

Sous la direction de Jean Weisgerber †

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, V] 1986. 704 pp.

Les Avant-gardes littéraires au XX^e siècle: Deux volumes. I: Histoire; II: Théorie

Sous la direction de Jean Weisgerber †

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, IV-V] 1986. 622, 704 pp.

Melodrama heute: Die Adaption melodramatischer Elemente und Strukturen im Werk von John Arden und Arden/D'Arcy

Michael Göring

[Münchner Studien zur Neueren englischen Literatur, 2] 1986. 439 pp.

Mere Irish & Fíor-Ghael: Studies in the idea of Irish nationality, its literary expression and development

Joep Leerssen

The aim of this investigation is to reconsider the cultural confrontation between England and Ireland from a new methodological perspective, and to trace how this confrontation resulted in a particular notion, literary as well as political, of Irish nationality. read more

[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 22] 1986. xv, 543 pp.

The Reader and the Text: Interpretative Strategies for Latin American Literatures

Diana Sorensen Goodrich

The shift toward the reader's task may be said to stem from a double source: the questioning of the sleuthlike approach to a text aiming at the discovery and explication of the author's intended meaning, coupled with the recognition that the work, liberated from its dependence on the authorial… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 18] 1986. xi, 150 pp.

Tranquil Ecstasy: Mark Twains pastorale Neigung und ihre literarische Gestaltung

Karl Otto Strohmidel

[Bochumer anglistische Studien, 20] 1986. xiv, 302 pp.

Utopía, paraíso e historia: Inscripciones del mito en García Márquez, Rulfo y Cortázar

Lida Aronne-Amestoy

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 19] 1986. xi, 167 pp.

“Appelle-moi Pierrot”: Wit and Irony in the Lettres of Madame de Sévigné

Jo Ann Marie Recker

The present study uses modern Molière criticism as a way of understanding Mme de Sévigné. In both Molière and Mme de Sévigné there is evidence of esprit or wit, that intellectual facility which perceives contrasts. Moliéresque critical theory would call this perception the "Imposteur" technique. As… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 21] 1986. ix, 128 pp.

Aviation Lore in Faulkner

Robert Harrison

William Faulkner was an aviation cadet in Canada in the closing days of WW I. He later owned his own airplane, and even put on a few air shows. When he wrote of flying, as he often did, it was with a great deal of expertise but little concern for the edification of his readers. The result is that… read more

[Not in series, 21] 1985. (vi), viii, 195 pp. + ills.

Die bildliche Ausdrucksweise in den Tragödien des Euripides

Ewald Kurtz

[Heuremata: Studien zu Literatur, Sprachen und Kultur der Antike, 8] 1985. iv, 669 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.

Horaz-Vertonungen vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart: Eine Anthologie

Joachim Draheim und Günther Wille

[Heuremata: Studien zu Literatur, Sprachen und Kultur der Antike, 7A] 1985. iv, 221 pp.

L’Espace et le sens: ‘Germinal’ d'Émile Zola. Essai de sémiotique discursive (Space and Meaning. Emile Zola’s Germinal)

Denis Bertrand

La sémiotique a-t-elle quelque chose à dire sure la littérature en tant que sœur des ‘beaux-arts’? Peut-elle rendre compte des raisons d’une réussite d’écriture? – Intention naïve, dira-t-on, que de vouloir décourvrir, sure la base des seules méthodes structurales, pourquoi une œuvre nous captive.… read more

[Actes Sémiotiques, 2] 1985. 213 pp.

Osiris N.: The Victim and the American Novel

Biyot Kesh Tripathy

[Not in series - Grüner, 109] 1985. xii, 282 pp.

The Pervasive Image: The Role of Analogy in the Poetry of Ausiàs March

Robert Archer

It is tempting to speculate that had Ausiàs March (1397–1459) written in Spanish instead Catalan, or rather the Valencian form of it which was his native tongue, he would by now undoubtedly be more widely recognised as the finest lyric poet in the Iberian Peninsula before the sixteenth century, and… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 17] 1985. xii, 220 pp.

Semiotics of Drama and Theatre: New Perspectives in the Theory of Drama and Theatre

Edited by Herta Schmid and Aloysius Van Kesteren

The volume presents perspectives in the theory of drama and theatre that are new for the following reasons: 1) the contributions reflect the international cooperation in developing drama and theatre as well as its theories; 2) this collection is the first attempt of presenting papers within the… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 10] 1985. 548 pp.

Strukturen in Shakespeares 'King Henry VI'

Regina Dombrowa

[Bochumer anglistische Studien, 18] 1985. x, 320 pp. mit farbigen Schemata

En Nombre de Don Juan: (Estructura de un mito literario)

Carlos Feal

Añadir uno más a los múltiples estudios sobre don Juan quizá parezca tarea innecesaria o vanidosa. A veces pienso que don Juan, junto a su lista de mujeres seducidas, pudiera presentar otra, más larga si cabe, de críticos seducidos por sus andanzas. Mas no sobre don Juan sólo. Pues las figuras que… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 16] 1984. ix, 175 pp.

Ezourvedam: A French Veda of the Eighteenth Century

Edited by Ludo Rocher

The Ezourvedam, used by Voltaire among others, as sourcebook for the most ancient of religions, was thereupon found to have been a fraud. Actually it was composed by a Christian – the text shows him to have been a French Jesuit missionary, who did not necessarily know Sanskrit – in order to convert… read more

[University of Pennsylvania Studies on South Asia, 1] 1984. vii, 214 pp.

Gustave Flaubert, critique: Thèmes et structures

Claire-Lise Tondeur

Mon propos est d'interroger cette Correspondance pour mettre en évidence les structures qui sous-tendent l'oeuvre critique de Flaubert. Bien que celui-ci rêve toute sa vie d'écrire des ouvrages critiques qui seraient à l'écoute de l'oeuvre, il n'en rédige aucun. La Correspondance, par contre,… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 15] 1984. xiv, 119 pp.

The Symbolist Home and the Tragic Home: Mallarmé and Oedipus

Richard E. Goodkin

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 13] 1984. xv, 203 pp.

The Symbolist Movement in the Literature of European Languages

Edited by Anna Balakian

Edited by Anna Balakian, this volume marks the first attempt to discuss Symbolism in a full range of the literatures written in the European languages. The scope of these analyses, which explore Latin America, Scandinavia, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as well as… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, II] 1984. 732 pp.

Towards a Romantic Conception of Nature: Coleridge's Poetry up to 1803: A study in the history of ideas

H.R. Rookmaaker

This study describes in detail the development of Coleridge’s attitude to nature as it is reflected in his poetry. It analyses the different stages of Coleridge’s search for a meaningful relation to nature from an uncritical adoption of the eighteenth century conventions in his early poetry to a… read more

[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 20] 1984. ix, 214 pp.

Wahnsinn: Symptom und Befreiung. Funktion und narrative Vermittlung extremen Irrationalismus im Werk Doris Lessings

Barbara Dahlhaus-Beilner

[Bochumer anglistische Studien, 17] 1984. iv, 261 pp.

'Le Roman des Eles', and the Anonymous: 'Ordene de Chevalerie': Two Early Old French Didactic Poems. Critical Editions with Introduction, Notes, Glossary and Translations, by Keith Busby

Raoul De Hodenc and Keith Busby

Scholars and students working on the early courtly and chivalric literature of medieval Europe will have often felt the need for contemporary theoretical material with which to illustrate their arguments about courtesy and chivalry in romances, etc. The present volume, which presents critical… read more

[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 17] 1983. ix, 175 pp.

Antigüedad y actualidad de Luis Vélez de Guevara: Estudios criticos

Editado por C. George Peale

Esta colección de estudios críticos se ha compilado con el propósito de revalorar al genial comediógrafo del siglo XVII, Luis Vélez de Guevara (1579-1644), y, posiblemente, restablecerlo como figura de importancia en la historia del teatro español. read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 10] 1983. xii, 298 pp.

Der Aufbau der Werke des Tacitus

Günther Wille

[Heuremata: Studien zu Literatur, Sprachen und Kultur der Antike, 9] 1983. viii, 673 pp.

Erzählsituazionen und Figurenperspektiven im Detektivroman

Beatrix Finke

[Bochumer anglistische Studien, 15] 1983. xiv, 226 pp.

Gattungsprobleme des 'Domestic Drama' im literarhistorischen Kontext des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts

Doris Feldmann

[Bochumer anglistische Studien, 16] 1983. xii, 246 pp.

Meaning and Reading: A philosophical essay on language and literature

Michel Meyer

According to the traditional view, meaning presents itself under the form of some kind of identity. To give the meaning of a sentence amounts to being capable of producing some substitute based on the identity of the terms of the sentence. Is then the meaning of a book, or of any text, the capacity… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, IV:3] 1983. ix, 176 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.

'That Paralysing apparition. Beauty': Untersuchungen zu Christopher Caudwells Ideologie- und Widerspiegelungstheorie (Mt einer kommentierten Bibliographie im Anhang)

Jürgen Schmidt

[Bochumer anglistische Studien, 14] 1982. xvi, 622 pp.

The Afro-American Novel since 1960

Peter Bruck and Wolfgang Karrer

[Not in series - Grüner, 136] 1982. viii, 328 pp.

Carlyle and Jean Paul: Their Spiritual Optics

J.P. Vijn

It has always been thought difficult, if not impossible, to define what the philosophy of Carlyle was. Ever since the publication of Sartor Resartus in 1833-1834, the view that Carlyle had a theistic conception of the universe has been defended as well as opposed. At a time, therefore, when… read more

[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 18] 1982. xii, 284 pp. + ills.

Estructura del Martín Fierro

Carlos Albarracín-Sarmiento

Lo que ante todo me propongo es compartir una lectura actual del ya centenario Martín Fierro, una lectura conforme a vigentes concepciones de la naturaleza y función de la lengua literaria. Pretendo mostrar cómo se presenta hoy el poema de José Hernández a lectores entrenados en la lectura de… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 9] 1982. xx, 336 pp.

Le Tournant du siècle des Lumières 1760–1820: Les genres en vers des Lumières au romantisme

Sous la direction de György M. Vajda †

Ce volume fait partie d'une série de quatre volumes consacrés aux phénomènes littéraires de la période s'étendant des Lumières à l'avènement des mouvements romantiques. Les volumes suivants traiteront de la prose et du théâtre. Sont présentés ici les genres en vers, compte tenu en particulier des… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, III] 1982. 684 pp.

The Narrative Works of Günter Grass: A Critical Interpretation

Noel Thomas

This study provides a critical analysis of the narrative works of Günter Grass, under which Die Blechtrommel, Katz und Mann, Hundejahre und Der Butt. It is of interest to everyone who wants to get a better understanding of the novels of this famous German writer. read more

[German Language and Literature Monographs, 12] 1982. vi, 370 pp.

The Plays of Sophokles

Valdis Leinieks

[Not in series - Grüner, 69] 1982. vi, 215 pp.

Reason and the Passions in the 'Comedias' of Calderón

David Jonathan Hildner

While Calderón's autos portray this teleological view of life with unequaled ingenuity, his comedias lie somewhere on the line of development of European thought and activity between the other-worldiness of orthodox Thomism and the naturalism of which Spinoza's ideas are one example among many. Let… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 11] 1982. xii, 119 pp.

The Structure of the Literary Process: Studies dedicated to the Memory of Felix Vodicka

Edited by Peter Steiner, Miroslav Červenka and Ronald Vroon

These papers on the structure of the literary process were brought together in memory of Felix Vodička (1909–1974). Contributions by: Jacek Baluch, Miroslav Červenka, Květoslav Chvatík, E.M. van Dam-Havelková, Sergej Davydov, Lubomir Doležel, Miroslav Drozda, Jan van der Eng, F.W. Galan, Mojmír… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 8] 1982. viii, 613 pp.

'By What you see them act': Probleme der Handlung in Shakespeares 'MacBeth', 'Othello' und 'King Lear'

Peter Hasenberg

[Bochumer anglistische Studien, 13] 1981. viii, 382 pp.

Bühnenanweisung und Dramaturgie: Hinweise zu Interpretation und Inszenierung in Shakespeares 'First Folio' und den Quartoversionen

Margarete Munkelt

[Bochumer anglistische Studien, 12] 1981. x, 346 pp.

Discurso retórico y mundo pastoral en la 'Égloga segunda' de Garcilaso

Inés Azar

La Egloga II propone el caos, lo diverso, el error, y también la posibilidad de orden. Sólo en el contexto de una especie literaria flexible y multiforme — la pastoral — y de una forma de expresión proteica — el discurso — esa vasta tarea de conciliación era posible. Discurso y pastoral constituyen… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 5] 1981. x, 172 pp.

The Films of Alain Robbe-Grillet

Roy Armes

Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922 –2008) was a French writer and filmmaker. His first involvement with the cinema was in the early 1960’s; scripting one of the most controversial films of the decade, L’Année dernière à Marienbad , directed by Alain Resnais.In this study the focus lies on the cinema of… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 6] 1981. x, 216 pp.

Invarianz und Variabilität literarischer Texte: Baudelaires 'Spleen' IV und Becketts 'En Attendant Godot'

K. Alfons Knauth

[Beihefte zu Poetica, 16] 1981. 296 pp.

Keats, Poe, and the Shaping of Cortazar's Mythopoesis

Ana Hernandez Del Castillo

The Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar was clearly influenced by his predecessors John Keats and Edgar Allan Poe. However, to what extent? Which aspects of the two Romantics have been kept and which ones transformed by Cortázar’s imagination? And is there a common bond in the works of Keats and Poe… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 8] 1981. xii, 135 pp.

Le 'Galien' de Cheltenham

Sous la direction de David M. Dougherty et Eugene B. Barnes

Le manuscrit 26092 de la célèbre collection de Cheltenham comprend les ouvrages suivants, dont les quatre premiers sont en vers et le cinquième en prose: 1) Hernaut de Beaulande, 2) Renier de Gennes, 3) Girart de Vienne, 4) Galien, 5) La Chronique de Saint-Denis. Une édition critique du quatrième… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 7] 1981. xxxvii, 203 pp.

The Multiple Perspective: Wilhelm Raabe's Third-Person Narratives of the Braunschweig period

Irene Stocksieker Di Maio

In this study the works of Wilhelm Raabe (1831–1910) are being discussed, taking into account the emerge of the perspectival narration, culminating in the Braunschweig period (1870–1920). The book starts with a survey of the point of view theory, including the concept of multiple perspective, and… read more

[German Language and Literature Monographs, 11] 1981. iv, 149 pp.

Reinmars Women: A Study of the Woman's Song ('Frauenlied' and 'Frauenstrophe') of Reinmar der Alte

William E. Jackson

Reinmar der Alte, the twelfth-century poet also known as Reinmar von Hagenau, wrote a considerable number of ‘Frauenlieder’ and ‘Frauenstrophen’, i.e. poems and stanzas in which the speaker is a woman. However, there has never been a satisfactory scholarly treatment of these poems. Throughout the… read more

[German Language and Literature Monographs, 9] 1981. xxiv, 374 pp.

Shakespeares 'Imagery': Versuch einer Definition

Maria Rauschenberger

[Bochumer anglistische Studien, 11] 1981. x, 731 pp.

Vertonungen antiker Texte vom Barock bis zur Gegenwart: Mit einer Bibliographie der Vertonungen für den Zeitraum von 1700 bis 1978

Joachim Draheim

[Heuremata: Studien zu Literatur, Sprachen und Kultur der Antike, 7] 1981. xii, 289 pp.

Aldous Huxleys 'Brave New World'

Berthold Thiel

[Bochumer anglistische Studien, 10] 1980. ii, 346 pp.

Aspects of Góngora's 'Soledades'

John R. Beverley

This study of Góngora’s Soledades is intended to summarize and discuss some of the problems which seemed important for a better understanding of these poems. Special attention is paid to the two opposing ‘camps’ that developed over time; one mainly focussing on the form and the other on the content… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 1] 1980. iv, 139 pp.

Chanson d'Antioche, chanson de geste: Le Cycle de la Croisade est-il épique?

Robert Francis Cook

Selon une dynamique évidente mais, apparemment, irrésistible, les textes médiévaux mal connus tendent à le rester, et leur obscurité à se justifier d'elle-même. La raison immédiate en est, cette fois, une répétition régulière d'une très vieille hypothèse, jamais vérifiée, sur la nature de la… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 2] 1980. viii, 107 pp.

The Critical Reception of Shakespeare's 'Anthony and Cleopatra': From 1607 to 1905

Michael Steppat

[Bochumer anglistische Studien, 9] 1980. xvi, 619 pp.

Die Strukturelemente der Intrige in der griechisch-römischen Komödie

Arnulf Dieterle

[Heuremata: Studien zu Literatur, Sprachen und Kultur der Antike, 6] 1980. vi, 358 pp.

History in the Text 'Quatrevingt-Treize' and the French Revolution

Sandy Petrey

The title of this study “History in the text” is an oxymoronic phrase, and by this, the main focus of the book is clear immediately. On the other hand, there still remains the question to what extent text and history are comparable. The author of this volume tries to answer this by discussing the… read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 3] 1980. viii, 129 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.

Marcel Proust and the Strategy of Reading

Walter Kasell

This study examines Marcel Proust’s works and his readers, starting of with the reading encounter one needs in order not to miss out on things, and ending by exploring the nature of Proust’s vision. An interesting study for everyone who wants to know more about Proust and his ideas. read more

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 4] 1980. x, 125 pp.

Die Lear-Kritik im 20. Jahrhundert: Ein Beitrag zu einer Analyse der Entwicklung der Shakespeareliteratur

Peter Wenzel

[Bochumer anglistische Studien, 8] 1979. xii, 329 pp., xv Beilagen

Language, Literature & Meaning: Volume I: Problems of Literary Theory

Edited by John Odmark

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 1] 1979. x, 467 pp.

Der von Kürenberg: Edition, Notes, and Commentary

Gayle Agler-Beck

Der von Kürenberg was one of the first named poets to write in Middle High German language. This study presents a modified, diplomatic edition of the fifteen strophes text by Der von Kürenberg. It offers a commentary on the original text and discusses the literary and interpretative problems… read more

[German Language and Literature Monographs, 4] 1978. xix, 230 pp.

The Evaluation of Literary Texts: An Experimental Investigation into the Rationalization of Value Judgments with Reference to Semiotics and Esthetics of Reception

Rien T. Segers

[Studies in Semiotics, 22] 1978. 234 pp.

Formale Themen in Gian Battista Marinos 'Lira'

Joachim Schulze

[Beihefte zu Poetica, 14] 1978. 184 pp.

The Rhetoric of Love: Das Menschenbild und die Form des Romans bei Iris Murdoch

Wolfram Völker

[Bochumer anglistische Studien, 6] 1978. vi, 168 pp.

Sign and Subject: Semiotic and Psychoanalytic Investigations into Poetry

Daniel Laferriere

[Studies in Semiotics, 14] 1978. 103 pp.

Theodor Storm: Studies in Ambivalence. Symbol and Myth in his Narrative Fiction

David Artiss

How characteristic were the elements used in Theodor Storm’s (1817–1888) fiction? What were the rich fund of symbols and myths that he used? Few Storm interpreters have addressed themselves seriously to these questions. This study tries to fill this gap. read more

[German Language and Literature Monographs, 5] 1978. xix, 215 pp.

Verständigungsprobleme in Shakespaeres Dramen

Hans-Jürgen Weckermann

[Bochumer anglistische Studien, 7] 1978. vi, 369 pp.

The Black American Short Story in the 20th Century: A Collection of Critical Essays

Edited by Peter Bruck

This volume is a collection of essays on black short stories written between 1998 and 1976. It aims to say something about the black short story as a genre and the development of the racial situation in America as well. The primary aim is to introduce the reader to this long neglected genre of… read more

[Not in series - Grüner, 133] 1977. vii, 209 pp.

Defoes Gesellschaftskonzeption

Klaus Degering

[Bochumer anglistische Studien, 5] 1977. x, 512 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.

Friedrich Nicolais Satiren: Ein Beitrag zur Kulturgeschichte des 18. Jahrhunderts

Peter Mollenhauer

Satiren wurden oft als ästhetische Kunstübung gesehen, aber der Satiriker Friedrich Nicolai (1733–1811) hatte die Frage nach dem Wahren so eindringlich wie auch ein Kritiker gestellt. Damit bekam die Satire eine neue Deutung und hat diese die Kulturgeschichte des 18. Jahrhunderts wesentlich… read more

[German Language and Literature Monographs, 2] 1977. viii, 267 pp.

Komik in den Romanen George Eliots

Werner Schäfer

[Bochumer anglistische Studien, 19] 1977. vi, 240 pp.

Poetische Äquivalenzen: Grundverfahren dichterischer Gestaltung bei Catull

Susana Reisz De Rivarola

[Beihefte zu Poetica, 13] 1977. 151 pp.

Strickers Daniel von dem Blühenden Tal: Werkstruktur und Interpretation

Ingeborg Henderson

Der Stricker war ein deutscher Fabeldichter, der in der ersten Hälfte des 13. Jahrhunderts lebte. In dieser Publikation wird versucht der harrenden Frage, “welche Stellenwert der Stricker in der nachklassischen Romantradition genau eingenommen hat” eine Lösung zu liefern; besonders wird Strickers… read more

[German Language and Literature Monographs, 1] 1976. viii, 206 pp.

The Architecture of Anna Karenina: A history of its writing, structure and message

Elisabeth Stenbock-Fermor

When criticized about the lack of architecture in Anna Karenina, connecting the themes of Levin and Anna Karenina, Tolstoj disagreed: “The arches of the vault are brought together in such a way that it is even impossible to notice where the keystone is.” This book explores the architecture,… read more

[Not in series - Grüner, 127] 1975. 127 pp.

Der Aufbau der drei Bücher von Ovids Amores

Gesine Lörcher

[Heuremata: Studien zu Literatur, Sprachen und Kultur der Antike, 3] 1975. viii, 105 pp.

Die Furcht als politisches Phänomen bei Tacitus

Wolff-Rüdiger Heinz

[Heuremata: Studien zu Literatur, Sprachen und Kultur der Antike, 4] 1975. vi, 85 pp.

Dizionario di Mitologia Egizia: Volume 4: From a thusfar unpublished manuscript of Lanzone, kept in the Egyptian Museum of Florence, ed. and enlarged with a complete Index to the 4 vols, and a biography of Lanzone by Dr. Mario TOSI

R.V. Lanzone

L’opera di Lanzone, che è qui riprodotta in ristampa anastatica, coninua ad essere un utile strumento di lavoro, benché sia divenuta insufficiente sotto molteplici aspetti, di documentazione, bibliografia, interpretazione e lettura dei geroglifici stessi. Un rifacimento dell’opera avrebbe… read more

[Not in series, 5] 1975. xv, 205 pp., 77 tabs., large 8-vo.

Erinnerung bei Dickens

Lothar Černý

[Bochumer anglistische Studien, 3] 1975. viii, 284 pp.

Satire und politischer Roman: Untersuchungen zum Romanwerk Benjamin Disraelis

Ulrich Christoph Janiesch

[Bochumer anglistische Studien, 1] 1975. vi, 300 pp.

Themes and Variations in Pasternak's Poetics

Krystyna Pomorska

[Not in series - Grüner, 126] 1975. 92 pp.

Toward a Statistical Analysis of English verse: The Iambic Tetrameter of ten Poets

James Bailey

[Not in series - Grüner, 7] 1975. 83 pp.

Von der 'Store Front Church' zum 'American Dream': James Baldwin und der amerikanische Rassenkonflikt

Peter Bruck

[Bochumer anglistische Studien, 2] 1975. viii, 147 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.

Der Aufbau des Livianischen Geschichtswerks

Günther Wille

[Heuremata: Studien zu Literatur, Sprachen und Kultur der Antike, 1] 1973. viii, 124 pp.

Expressionism as an International Literary Phenomenon: Twenty-one essays and a bibliography

Edited by Ulrich Weisstein

Ulrich Weisstein’s collection of 21 essays offers a comparative study of Expressionism as a Modernist movement whose dynamic core lay in Germany and Austria-Hungary, but which transformed artistic practices in other European countries. The focus, Weisstein argues, “must be strictly and sharply… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, I] 1973. 360 pp.

Francesco Petrarca: Nebst dem Leben des Dichters und ausführlichen Ausgabenverzeichnissen. 1818

Dargestellt von C.L. Fernow

[Not in series - Grüner, 38] 1972. viii, 352 pp.

La parnasse médical Français, ou Dictionnaire des Médicins-Poètes de la France, anciens ou modernes morts ou vivants: 1874

Achille Chereau

[Not in series - Grüner, 24] 1972. xxiv, 552 pp.

Anfang und Ende der abendländischen Lyrik: Untersuchungen zum Homerischen Apollonhymnus und zu Anise Koltz

Manfred Forderer

[Not in series - Grüner, 36] 1971. viii, 220 pp.

Sprachbehandlung und Darstellungsweise in römischer Prosa: Claudius Quadrigarius, Livius, Aulus Gellius

Wolfgang Schibel

Die Corvinuserzählung, die wir bei Gellius finden, ist in der Forschung lange disputiert worden. H. Peter (1870) hatte sich entschlossen, sie unter die Fragmente des Claudius Quadrigarius aufzunehmen, wegen der Nachbarschaft zur Torquatuserzählung. Mcdonald (1975) vergleicht die bei Gellius… read more

[Not in series - Grüner, 91] 1971. vii, 122 pp.