BISAC SubjectsLITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory

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Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse

Anders Pettersson

Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse presents a general perspective on the art of literature, starting from the questions of what literature is, how it works, and what it is for. It is a main theme in the book that what we typically call literature is written to be read and freely… read more

[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 22] 2026. xv, 186 pp.

A Life with Poetry: The development of poetic literacy

Joan Peskin and David I. Hanauer

This volume examines the development of poetic literacy including the specific processes used by expert poetry readers and professional poets. In doing so it provides a much needed synthesis of research findings across diverse domains such as human development, the scientific study of literature,… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 41] 2023. x, 194 pp.

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.

Sound–Emotion Interaction in Poetry: Rhythm, Phonemes, Voice Quality

Reuven Tsur † and Chen Gafni

This book is a collection of studies providing a unique view on two central aspects of poetry: sounds and emotive qualities, with emphasis on their interactions. The book addresses various theoretical and methodological issues related to topics like sound symbolism, poetic prosody, and voice… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 39] 2022. xv, 448 pp.

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.

Language in Place: Stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment

Edited by Daniela Francesca Virdis, Elisabetta Zurru and Ernestine Lahey

The contributions in this collection offer a wide range of stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment, by focusing on a variety of text-types ranging from poetry, the Bible, fictional and non-fictional prose, to newspaper articles, condo names, online texts and exhibitions.… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 37] 2021. vii, 258 pp.

Words, Books, Images, and the Long Eighteenth Century: Essays for Allen Reddick

Edited by Antoinina Bevan Zlatar, Mark Ittensohn, Enit Karafili Steiner and Olga Timofeeva

The essays collected in this volume engage in a conversation among lexicography, the culture of the book, and the canonization and commemoration of English literary figures and their works in the long eighteenth century. The source of inspiration for each piece is Allen Reddick’s scholarship on… read more

[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 16] 2021. xv, 252 pp.

Experiencing Fictional Worlds

Edited by Benedict Neurohr and Lizzie Stewart-Shaw

Experiencing Fictional Worlds is not only the title of this book, but a challenge to reveal exactly what makes the “experience” of literature. This volume presents contributions drawing upon a range of theories and frameworks based on the text-as-world metaphor. This text-world approach is… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 32] 2019. xiii, 228 pp.

Cognitive Grammar in Contemporary Fiction

Chloe Harrison

This book proposes an extension of Cognitive Grammar (Langacker 1987, 1991, 2008) towards a cognitive discourse grammar, through the unique environment that literary stylistic application offers. Drawing upon contemporary research in cognitive stylistics (Text World Theory, deixis and… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 26] 2017. ix, 164 pp.

Worldmaking: Literature, language, culture

Edited by Tom Clark, Emily Finlay and Philippa Kelly

In 1978, Nelson Goodman explored the relation of “worlds” to language and literature, formulating the term, “worldmaking” to suggest that many other worlds can as plausibly exist as the “world” we know right now. We cannot catch or know “the world” as such: all we can catch are the world versions -… read more

[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 5] 2017. xv, 235 pp.

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.

Scientific Methods for the Humanities

Willie van Peer, Frank Hakemulder and Sonia Zyngier

Here is a much needed introductory textbook on empirical research methods for the Humanities. Especially aimed at students and scholars of Literature, Applied Linguistics, and Film and Media, it stimulates readers to reflect on the problems and possibilities of testing the empirical assumptions and… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 13] 2012. xxii, 328 pp.

The Future of Scientific Studies in Literature

Special issue of Scientific Study of Literature 1:1 (2011) iv, 193 pp.

Re-Covered Rose: A case study in book cover design as intersemiotic translation

Marco Sonzogni

When a reader picks up a book, the essence of the text has been translated into the visual space of the cover. Using Umberto Eco’s bestseller The Name of the Rose as a case study, this is the first study of book cover design as a form of intersemiotic translation based on the purposeful selection… read more

[Not in series, 169] 2011. viii, 181 pp., incl. ills.

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 15 (2002)

Edited by Brian J. Levy and Paul Wackers

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