Blühendes Leben und glühende Liebe. Die zeitlose Vision eines der größten deutschsprachigen Dicht...

Wie man sich mit Platon verliebt, mit Sokrates gelassen wird und trotz Kant den Sinn des Lebens f...

Gibt es Schicksal?Muss ich mich für Politik interessieren?Ist es wichtig, etwas Eigenes schaffen ...

Wie sieht eine Arbeitswelt aus, die Menschen und ihre Bedürfnisse ins Zentrum stellt?Neue Mitarbe...

Klimawandel, digitaler Wandel, demographischer Wandel, geopolitische Verwerfungen: Die Welt verän...

Glück - wie viel Zauber und Verheißung klingen mit in diesem Wort! Und wie viel Missverständnis u...

Zeit für einen NeustartCorona stellt vieles von dem in Frage, woran wir bislang glaubten und was ...

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Adapting the Canon

The Poetry of Céline Arnauld

Can Fiction Change the World?

In the midst of the violent conflicts of 1918 ambitious plans for new cultural formations emerged...

Crossings is a gathering of essays whose preoccupations converge in the idea that the workings of...

Entdecke die Weisheit der Esel in »Wacher Geist und fester Schritt -The Donkey School for Leaders...

Triangular Translation

There is nothing funny about comedy in Renaissance France. Comic theatre in the sixteenth century...

What is an image? Literary imagery is often understood as figurative speech. But images can also ...

The essays grouped together here reflect a career-long preoccupation with aspects of modern Frenc...

This interdisciplinary collection discusses how Shakespeare's Hamlet has been translated into dif...

'If you're satisfied with yourself, beware of Döblin.' It was with this temptation for brave soul...

In our globalizing, post-colonial world, Comparative Literature is on the rise; but it is not new...

Parental profligacy and the dishonesty of his guardian meant that when Edmund Spencer came of age...

The narrative of civilization has always been told as a family story, from the patriarchal begett...

At stake throughout the fictional writings of Marie NDiaye (1967-) is the issue of the stranger's...

Confrontational Readings explores the manifold relationships between neo-avant-garde literatures....

The word 'foreign' has gathered hostile associations but its Latin root - foris: a door - is clos...

Much has been written about Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and his grandiose Shakespearean productions...

How and why do we write about mourning? How does narrative assist us when we dwell on, in, and wi...

Music pervades the work of the Argentine author Julio Cortázar (1914-1984). From the classical st...

Louis-René des Forêts (1916-2000) devoted the last twenty-five years of his writing life to an in...

Throughout the centuries, the Italian peninsula has played an important role as a crossroads wher...

The essays collected in this volume trace the evolution over a period of thirty years of a critic...

Not only did Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen, 1885-1962) read the works of her fellow-countryman, the ...

In the late Middle Ages, the Low Countries - ruled by the Dukes of Burgundy and their Hapsburg su...

Crime fiction enjoys almost unparalleled success in post-Soviet Russia; but what do we know about...

Lauded by many as one of twentieth-century Spain's greatest poets, José Ángel Valente (1929-2000)...

The philosopher María Zambrano (1904-1991) is one of the foremost Spanish intellectuals of the tw...

The British plant-collector Reginald Farrer (1880-1920) became a Buddhist in Ceylon, and his publ...

Adapting the Canon brings together some of the most recent and exciting research in the growing f...

Perpetual Motion is a collection of studies which aims to offer new sightlines between surrealism...

The increase in the visibility of autobiographies and fiction recounting suffering in this centur...

Historical memory emerges through dialogue between one generation and the next. But what happens ...

Four centuries after his death in 1616, Cervantes's great novel (the first novel), Don Quixote (1...

Analyses of early modern Latin American literature have often portrayed it either as a continuati...

In her ever-evolving career, the legendary filmmaker Agnès Varda has gone from being a photograph...

Over the years, Mexico's photographic appeal has been created and sustained by many acclaimed pho...

This volume borrows its title from the first international Yiddish bestseller, Sholem Asch's epic...

Texts of different kinds grant insight into the rich cultural canvas of the Middle Ages: epic poe...