Autor: Klaus Stierstorfer

Given its discursive amplification and its very real impact on contemporary societies, fundamentalism has become the focus of much scholarly attention. However, whereas it is commonly recognized to b …

Magic realism has become a significant mode of expression in Jewish cultural production. This special focus of Symbolism for the first time explores in a comparative and transnational approach the ma …

Symbolic representation is a crucial subject for and a potent heuristic instrument of diaspora studies. This special focus inquires into the forms and functions of symbols of diaspora both in aesthet …

Symbolic representation is a crucial subject for and a potent heuristic instrument of diaspora studies. This special focus inquires into the forms and functions of symbols of diaspora both in aesthet …

Diaspora studies has developed in recent years from disparate enquiries into diasporic phenomena in political science, anthropology, history, geography, and literary and cultural studies. Its emergen …

Diaspora studies has developed in recent years from disparate enquiries into diasporic phenomena in political science, anthropology, history, geography, and literary and cultural studies. Its emergen …

While paratexts – among them headnotes, footnotes, or endnotes – have never been absent from American literature, the last two decades have seen an explosion of the phenomenon, including (mock) schol …

While paratexts – among them headnotes, footnotes, or endnotes – have never been absent from American literature, the last two decades have seen an explosion of the phenomenon, including (mock) schol …

Essays in this special focus constellate around the diverse symbolic forms in which Caribbean consciousness has manifested itself transhistorically, shaping identities within and without structures o …

The well-known challenges of international migration have triggered new departures in academic approaches, with ‘diaspora studies’ evolving as an interdisciplinary and even transdisciplinary field of …

The complex nature of globalization increasingly requires a comparative approach to literature in order to understand how migration and commodity flows impact aesthetic production and expressive prac …

The complex nature of globalization increasingly requires a comparative approach to literature in order to understand how migration and commodity flows impact aesthetic production and expressive prac …

This special issue of Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics explores the various functions of metaphor in life writing. Looking at a range of autobiographical subgenres (pathograp …

This special issue of Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics explores the various functions of metaphor in life writing. Looking at a range of autobiographical subgenres (pathograp …

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This special anniversary volume of Symbolism explores the nexus between symbolic signification and the future from an interdisciplinary perspective. How, contributors ask, has the future been various …

Special Focus: Law and Literature This special focus issue of Symbolism takes a look at the theoretical equation of law and literature and its inherent symbolic dimension. The authors all approach th …

This edited volume is the first to focus on how concepts of citizenship diversify and stimulate the long-standing field of law and literature, and vice versa. Building on existing research in law and …

Form ist die wohl einflussreichste, sicher aber die beständigste Erkennungs- und Konfliktkategorie des literarischen Feldes. Wie kein anderes Konzept verbindet sie die Selbstbegründungen der Dichtung …

Special Focus: ‘Omission’, edited by Patrick Gill Throughout literary history and in many cultures, we encounter an astute use of conspicuous absences to conjure an imagined reality into a recipient’ …

This edited volume is the first to focus on how concepts of citizenship diversify and stimulate the long-standing field of law and literature, and vice versa. Building on existing research in law and …

Special Focus: Law and Literature This special focus issue of Symbolism takes a look at the theoretical equation of law and literature and its inherent symbolic dimension. The authors all approach th …

Special Focus: "Omission", edited by Patrick Gill Throughout literary history and in many cultures, we encounter an astute use of conspicuous absences to conjure an imagined reality into a …

Form ist die wohl einflussreichste, sicher aber die beständigste Erkennungs- und Konfliktkategorie des literarischen Feldes. Wie kein anderes Konzept verbindet sie die Selbstbegründungen der Dichtung …

This special anniversary volume of Symbolism explores the nexus between symbolic signification and the future from an interdisciplinary perspective. How, contributors ask, has the future been various …

Assembles a range of women’s letters from the former British Empire. These letters ‘written home’ are not only historical sources; they are also representations of the state of the Empire in far-off …

Assembles a range of women’s letters from the former British Empire. These letters ‘written home’ are not only historical sources; they are also representations of the state of the Empire in far-off …

Assembles a range of women’s letters from the former British Empire. These letters ‘written home’ are not only historical sources; they are also representations of the state of the Empire in far-off …

Assembles a range of women’s letters from the former British Empire. These letters ‘written home’ are not only historical sources; they are also representations of the state of the Empire in far-off …

Assembles a range of women’s letters from the former British Empire. These letters ‘written home’ are not only historical sources; they are also representations of the state of the Empire in far-off …

Assembles a range of women’s letters from the former British Empire. These letters ‘written home’ are not only historical sources; they are also representations of the state of the Empire in far-off …

Assembles a range of women’s letters from the former British Empire. These letters ‘written home’ are not only historical sources; they are also representations of the state of the Empire in far-off …

Assembles a range of women’s letters from the former British Empire. These letters ‘written home’ are not only historical sources; they are also representations of the state of the Empire in far-off …

Assembles a range of women’s letters from the former British Empire. These letters ‘written home’ are not only historical sources; they are also representations of the state of the Empire in far-off …

Assembles a range of women’s letters from the former British Empire. These letters ‘written home’ are not only historical sources; they are also representations of the state of the Empire in far-off …

Assembles a range of women’s letters from the former British Empire. These letters ‘written home’ are not only historical sources; they are also representations of the state of the Empire in far-off …

Assembles a range of women’s letters from the former British Empire. These letters ‘written home’ are not only historical sources; they are also representations of the state of the Empire in far-off …