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Behind the Frontiers of the Real
This book offers a definition of the fantastic that establishes it as a discourse in constant intertextual relation with the construct of reality. In establishing the definition of the fantastic, leading scholar David Roas selects four central concepts that allow him to chart a fairly clear map of this terrain: reality, the impossible, fear, and language. These four concepts underscore the fundamental issues and problems that articulate any theoretical reflection on the fantastic: its necessary relationship to an idea of the real, its limits, its emotional and psychological effects on the receiver and the transgression of language that is undertaken when attempting to express what is, by definition, inexpressible as it is beyond the realms of the conceivable. By examining such concepts, the book explores multiple perspectives that are clearly interrelated: from literary and comparative theory to linguistics, via philosophy, science and cyberculture.
Fifteenth-Century Studies
This volume of Fifteenth-Century Studies is derived from the 1995 Fifteenth-Century Symposium, held in Kaprun, Austria. As usual, it includes essays on numerous aspects of life during the time:interdisciplinary in approach, topics include Piers Plowman, Christine de Pizan, and Ovid in the Florentine renaissance. Examinations of the recent critical attention given to late-medieval drama and to Villon complete the volume.
The Arthur of the Iberians
Up-to-date Coverage of the scope and extent of the important tradition of Arthurian material in Iberian languages and of the modern scholarship on it. (= Wide-ranging bibliographical coverage and guide to both texts and research on them.) Written by Specialists in the different Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula (Portuguese, Catalan, Galician, Spanish and its dialects). (= Expert analysis of different traditions by leading scholars from Spain and the UK.) Wide-ranging Study not only of medieval and Renaissance literary texts, but also of modern Arthurian fiction, of the global spread of Arthurian legends in the Spanish and Portuguese worlds, and of the social impact of the legends through adoption of names of Arthurian characters and imitation of practices narrated in the legends. (=A comprehensive guide to both literary and social impact of Arthurian material in major world languages.)
Batman and the Shadows of Modernity
This book aims to study the Batman narrative, or Bat-narrative, from the point of view of its nodal relationship to modern narrative. To this end, it offers for the first time a new type of methodology adequate to the object, which delves both into materials scarcely studied in this context and well-known materials seen in a new light. This is a multidisciplinary work aimed at both the specialist and the global reader, bringing together comic studies, philosophical criticism, and literary criticism in a debate on the fate of our current global civilization.
Arthurian Bibliography IV
This fourth volume of entries, culled in the main from BBSIA, covers the years 1933 to 1998 inclusive. The cumulative volumes of the Bibliography offer an exhaustive author and title database of the burgeoning scholarship in this field.
Literatures of the World
Beginning with Erich Auerbach’s reflections on the Goethean concept of World Literature, Ottmar Ette unfolds the theory and practice of Literatures of the World. Today, only those literary theories that are oriented upon a history of movement are still capable of doing justice to the confusing diversity of highly dynamic, worldwide transformations. This is because they examine transareal pathways in the field of literature. This volume captures literary processes of exchange and transformation between the Mediterranean, Atlantic and Pacific as well as the interplay of different ways of narrating space and time. Thus, this volume speaks from a fractal point of view and unfolds multiple perspectives. Literatures of the World allows the reader to think in different logical frameworks at the same time, therefore shaping our future on the basis of the diversity of humankind.
Aufklärung und Skepsis
Wissenschaftlicher Höhepunkt des Heine-Jahres 1997 war der Internationale Heinrich-Heine-Kongreß, der im Mai in Zusammenarbeit von der Heinrich-Heine-Universität und dem Heinrich-Heine-Institut in Düsseldorf veranstaltet wurde. Zum 200. Geburtstag diskutierten die Heine-Expertinnen und -Experten aus 15 Ländern die Position des Autors zwischen aufklärerischem Forschrittsglauben und der Skepsis des modernen Intellektuellen. Thematisiert wurden u.a. Heines Politikverständnis im Übergang von französischer Aufklärung zum Frühsozialismus, seine Europaidee im Spannungsfeld von Nationalismus und Kosmopolitismus, die Revolutionsproblematik, seine geschichtsphilosophische Position, Judenema...
Eine andere Geschichte der spanischen Literatur
Diese erste Darstellung der Literaturen Spaniens in digitalen Zeiten liefert Lesarten „gegen den Strich". Ihr geht es nicht um akademische Vollständigkeit, sondern darum, das transgressive Potenzial iberischer Autor*innen vom Goldenen Zeitalter bis heute auszuloten. Die Werke der berühmtesten Schriftsteller des Landes, Cervantes und Lorca, werden unter gendertheoretischen Perspektiven interpretiert, ebenso das Barockdrama und die neue LGBTQI+-Literatur. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt im literarischen Schaffen nach der Diktatur Francos, einer Zeit enormer sozialer, kultureller und ästhetischer Umwälzungen: Romane über den Bürgerkrieg bewirken eine Konjunktur der Memoria-Diskurse, politische un...
