Tobias Frese & Wilfried E. Keil 
Verborgen, unsichtbar, unlesbar – zur Problematik restringierter Schriftpräsenz [PDF ebook] 

Comparative Literature explores an ”area of interest” rather than a special discipline. The book begins with an account of the approaches that twentieth century writers took to literature by w …

The reactionary Comicsgate campaign against alleged “forced” diversity in superhero comics revealed the extent to which comics have become a key battleground in America”s Culture Wars. In the first …

This book brings together an analysis of the theoretical connection of genre, reception, and frame theory and a practical demonstration thereof, using a set of parodies of the first wave of the Gothi …

Addresses Early Modern representations of chastity and adultery, as well as matrimony and its dissolution in both the private and public realms, including the most well known marital dissolution, tha …

Bringing together leading scholars and teacher educators from across the world, from Europe and the USA to Asia, this book presents the latest research and new perspectives into the uses of children’ …

F. Scott Fitzgerald left behind a substantial body of work on New York, yet his city remains in our time terra incognita, talked about but rarely well met. Lost City takes on this important and under …

First published in 2003. Brooks Landon analyses science fiction not as a set of rules for writers, but as a set of expectations for readers. He presents science fiction as a social phenomenon that mo …

In this beautifully illustrated and provocative study, Bridget Elliott and Jo-Ann Wallace reappraise women”s literary and artistic contribution to Modernism. Through comparative case studies, includ …

Three extensively revised essays by Mailloux, an influential proponent of cultural studies, describe his approach in depth. Following are ten essays, nine of them written specifically for this volume …

Everyone knows something of nineteenth-century France – or do they? ‘Les Miserables’, ‘The Lady of the Camelias’ and ‘The Three Musketeers’, ‘Balzac’ and ‘Jules Verne’ live in the popular consciousne …