Recent, unpredictable incidents in diverse locations Paris, Nice, Ankara, Sinai, California, Manchester and London reinforce how governments and scholars must look beneath the surface for understandi …

Compares the cultural productions of Canada and the US – literature, but also film, opera, and even theme parks – providing a reassessment of Canadian Studies within a comparative framework. Since th …

Hochstapler geben vor, jemand zu sein, der sie nicht sind. Sie konstruieren eine Lebensgeschichte, die sich bestimmter kultureller Vorannahmen und Stereotype bedient, um für andere glaubhaft zu sein. …

Defined as an ecological epoch in which humans have the most impact on the environment, the Anthropocene poses challenging questions to literary and cultural studies. If, in the Anthropocene, the dis …

Neighbourly relations frequently position a "self" against an "Other". This is the case for both individuals and nations, and, indeed, within the various cultural groups of a nati …

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores representations of skin in literature, art, art history, visual media, and medicine and its history. The essays collected here probe the s …

Landschaften werden oftmals als ›romantisch‹ wahrgenommen − und Städte? Der urbane Raum bildet einen ebenso wichtigen Aktualisierungsort von Ideen und ästhetischen Strategien der historischen Romanti …

The first anthology of critical interpretations of major Canadian short stories. Beginning in the 1890s, reaching its first full realization by modernist writers in the 1920s, and brought to its heyd …

Study of three North American women novelists combining the standpoints of gender studies and narratology. By analyzing the works of Thomas, Marlatt, and Erdrich through the lenses of subjectivity, g …

First comparative study of urban fiction in the US and Canada investigates representations of the urban after postmodernism in two New York and two Toronto novels. Cities are material and symbolic sp …

The development of literature in Canada with an eye to its multicultural, multiethnic, multilingual nature. From modest colonial beginnings, literature in Canada has arrived at the center stage of wo …

Der Band geht von störungstheoretischen Überlegungen aus und zeigt, inwieweit die Corona-Pandemie zu einem Störfall mit grenzüberschreitenden Wirkungen geworden ist. Die Pandemie betrifft in globaler …