Scenographies of Perception

Christian Jany

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Comparative Literature | nr. 45
• Sensory perception and literary narration are sometimes regarded in opposition to each other. Paul de Man, for example, declared that 'a literary text... Lees meer

Death Sentences

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Comparative Literature | nr. 49
• As Albert Camus once remarked: 'Of capital punishment, people write only [...] in a low voice.' Journalists and state officials alike use a carefully ... Lees meer

Reflections in the Library

Antal Szerb

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Comparative Literature | nr. 46
• In this important new volume we see the great Hungarian writer Antal Szerb at the height of his powers. Widely recognised in his native country as one... Lees meer

Modernist in Exile

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Comparative Literature | nr. 42
• H. G. Adler (Prague, 1910-London, 1988), a survivor of Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and two other Nazi concentration camps, is unique for his scholarly ... Lees meer

Comparative Literature in Britain

Joep Leerssen

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Comparative Literature | nr. 27
• In our globalizing, post-colonial world, Comparative Literature is on the rise; but it is not new. It emerged in the nineteenth century as a countermo... Lees meer

Metaphor in European Philosophy after Nietzsche

Andrew Hines

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Comparative Literature | nr. 54
• When one encounters a metaphor in the Humanities, the interpretation of that metaphor is dominated by either cognitive linguistics or post-Kantian Eur... Lees meer

The Modern Culture of Reginald Farrer

Michael Charlesworth

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Comparative Literature | nr. 36
• The British plant-collector Reginald Farrer (1880-1920) became a Buddhist in Ceylon, and his published works contain lively and uninhibited critiques ... Lees meer

Depicting the Divine

Olga G Voronina

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Comparative Literature | nr. 47
• Two of the iconic novels of the twentieth century, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita (1928-40) and Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers (19... Lees meer

Sublime Conclusions

Robert K Weninger

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Comparative Literature | nr. 43
• One writer, Mary Shelley, inaugurated two of the three paradigms through which human beings imagine, with panic or pleasure, the end of their species.... Lees meer

Samuel Butler and the Science of the Mind

Cristiano Turbil

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Comparative Literature | nr. 48
• Darwin's theory of evolution was received with great interest all across Europe. The theory of evolution generated numerous debate among scientists, p... Lees meer

Utopian Identities

Clementina Osti

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Comparative Literature | nr. 41
• Literary prizes are nothing if not controversial. Criticised for the selection -- or rejection -- of authors, texts and jury members, attacked for the... Lees meer

Utopian Identities

Clementina Osti

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Comparative Literature | nr. 41
• Literary prizes are nothing if not controversial. Criticised for the selection -- or rejection -- of authors, texts and jury members, attacked for the... Lees meer

Rhetoric of Exile

Vladimir Zoric

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Comparative Literature | nr. 39
• The Rhetoric of Exile explores the rhetorical construction of force in indirect exile and in literary responses to it. Between banishment, a compulsor... Lees meer

Words Like Fire

James P Leveque

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Comparative Literature | nr. 50
• The avant-garde in the early-twentieth century planted its flag on the ruins of the day's pieties, with religion a particularly urgent target. Movemen... Lees meer

Mary Shelley and Europe

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Comparative Literature | nr. 55
• Mary Shelley in Europe studies the European background of Mary Shelley's works and their reception. This two-fold approach is inspired by Mary Shelley... Lees meer

From Puppet to Cyborg

Georgia Panteli

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Comparative Literature | nr. 40
• What does Pinocchio, the puppet who turns into a real boy, have in common with robots and cyborgs? This comparative study shows how Carlo Collodi's Th... Lees meer

Scenographies of Perception

Christian Jany

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Comparative Literature | nr. 45
• Sensory perception and literary narration are sometimes regarded in opposition to each other. Paul de Man, for example, declared that 'a literary text... Lees meer

Fragments, Genius and Madness

Elisa Segnini

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Comparative Literature | nr. 56
• At the turn of the nineteenth century, as inquiries about degeneration shaped medical, sociological and anthropological discourses, masks flourished a... Lees meer

Death Sentences

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Comparative Literature | nr. 49
• As Albert Camus once remarked: 'Of capital punishment, people write only [...] in a low voice.' Journalists and state officials alike use a carefully ... Lees meer

A Poetics of the Image

Julian J I Koch

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Comparative Literature | nr. 52
• What is an image? Literary imagery is often understood as figurative speech. But images can also be visual in artworks. They can be abstract, too, if ... Lees meer

Residual Figuration in Samuel Beckett and Alberto Giacometti

Li Lin

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Comparative Literature | nr. 53
• In 1945, Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) brought back to Paris six matchboxes filled with the work of his war years: minute figurines that... Lees meer

Arthur Symons

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Comparative Literature | nr. 44
• If I have been a vagabond, and have never been able to root myself in any one place in the world, it is because I have no early memories of any one sk... Lees meer

Depicting the Divine

Olga G Voronina

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Comparative Literature | nr. 47
• Two of the iconic novels of the twentieth century, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita (1928-40) and Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers (19... Lees meer

The Modern Culture of Reginald Farrer

Michael Charlesworth

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Comparative Literature | nr. 36
• The British plant-collector Reginald Farrer (1880-1920) became a Buddhist in Ceylon, and his published works contain lively and uninhibited critiques ... Lees meer