BISAC SubjectsLITERARY CRITICISM / General
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 19 (2006)
Edited by Baudouin Van den Abeele and Paul Wackers
Reinardus aims to promote comparative research in the fields of medieval comic, satirical, didactic, and allegorical literature, with emphasis on beast epic, fable and fabliau, including sources, influences and later developments into the modern period. The methods and critical interpretations it… read more[Reinardus, 19] 2007. iv, 198 pp.
History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume II
Edited by Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer
Continuing the work undertaken in Vol. 1 of the History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe, Vol. 2 considers various topographic sites—multicultural cities, border areas, cross-cultural corridors, multiethnic regions—that cut across national boundaries, rendering them permeable to the… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XX] 2006. xiv, 512 pp.
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 18 (2005)
Edited by Baudouin Van den Abeele and Paul Wackers
Reinardus aims to promote comparative research in the fields of medieval comic, satirical, didactic, and allegorical literature, with emphasis on beast epic, fable and fabliau, including sources, influences and later developments into the modern period. The methods and critical interpretations it… read more[Reinardus, 18] 2005. 227 pp.
History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume I
Edited by Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer
National literary histories based on internally homogeneous native traditions have significantly contributed to the construction of national identities, especially in multicultural East-Central Europe, the region between the German and Russian hegemonic cultural powers stretching from the Baltic… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XIX] 2004. xx, 647 pp.
Nonfictional Romantic Prose: Expanding borders
Edited by Steven P. Sondrup and Virgil Nemoianu
Nonfictional Romantic Prose: Expanding Borders surveys a broad range of expository, polemical, and analytical literary forms that came into prominence during the last two decades of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth. They stand in contrast to better-known romantic fiction… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XVIII] 2004. viii, 477 pp.
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 17 (2004)
Edited by Brian J. Levy and Paul Wackers
[Reinardus, 17] 2004. vi, 211 + 13 pp. ills.
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.
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
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, 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
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, 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 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, 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 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, 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.
Bestia: Yearbook of the Beast Fable Society
[Bestia, 3] 1991. ca. 125 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.
Bestia: Yearbook of the Beast Fable Society
[Bestia, 2] 1990. ca. 125 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.
Bestia: Yearbook of the Beast Fable Society
[Bestia, 1] 1989. ca. 104 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.
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Die Berliner Abendblätter Heinrich von Kleists, ihre Quellen und ihre Redaktion: Schriften der Kleist-Gesellschaft, Bd. 19 (Berlin, 1939)
Helmut Sembdner
[Not in series, 2] 1970. xviii, 402 pp., 7 Tabs.
Medieval Greek Texts: Being a collection of the earliest compositions in vulgar Greek, prior to the year 1500. With prolegomena and critical notes. Containing seven poems, three of which appear here for the first time, with an essay on the Greek version of Apollonius of Tyre, by M.A.Ch. Gidel. 1870
Wilhelm Wagner
[Not in series - Grüner, 112] 1970. xxiv, 190 pp.
Aurelius Ambrosius, “Der Vater des Kirchengesanges”: Eine hymnologische Studie. 1893
Guido Maria Dreves
[Not in series - Grüner, 34] 1968. viii, 146 pp.
Die Ritter des Aristophanes: Beobachtungen zur dramatischen Handlung und zum komischen Stil des Aristophanes
Manfred Landfester
[Not in series - Grüner, 67] 1967. 104 pp.
Silius Italicus: Freiheit und Gebundenheit römischer Epik
Michael von Albrecht
[Not in series - Grüner, 3] 1964. 237 pp.