BIC SubjectsLiterary theory

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Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse

Anders Pettersson

Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse presents a general perspective on the art of literature, starting from the questions of what literature is, how it works, and what it is for. It is a main theme in the book that what we typically call literature is written to be read and freely… read more

[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 22] 2026. xv, 186 pp.

Language in Place: Stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment

Edited by Daniela Francesca Virdis, Elisabetta Zurru and Ernestine Lahey

The contributions in this collection offer a wide range of stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment, by focusing on a variety of text-types ranging from poetry, the Bible, fictional and non-fictional prose, to newspaper articles, condo names, online texts and exhibitions.… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 37] 2021. vii, 258 pp.

The Hero Reloaded: The reinvention of the classical hero in contemporary mass media

Edited by Rosario López Gregoris and Cristóbal Macías Villalobos

What was a hero in Classical Antiquity? Why is it that their characteristics have transcended chronological and cultural barriers while they are still role models in our days? How have their features changed to be embodied by comic superheroes and film? How is their essence vulgarized and turned… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 23] 2020. xiv, 160 pp.

Experiencing Fictional Worlds

Edited by Benedict Neurohr and Lizzie Stewart-Shaw

Experiencing Fictional Worlds is not only the title of this book, but a challenge to reveal exactly what makes the “experience” of literature. This volume presents contributions drawing upon a range of theories and frameworks based on the text-as-world metaphor. This text-world approach is… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 32] 2019. xiii, 228 pp.

Empirical Studies of Literariness

Edited by Massimo Salgaro and Paul Sopčák

Special issue of Scientific Study of Literature 8:1 (2018) v, 208 pp.

Where is Adaptation?: Mapping cultures, texts, and contexts

Edited by Casie Hermansson and Janet Zepernick

Where is Adaptation? Mapping cultures, texts, and contexts explores the vast terrain of contemporary adaptation studies and offers a wide variety of answers to the title question in 24 chapters by 29 international practitioners and scholars of adaptation, both eminent and emerging. From insightful… read more

[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 9] 2018. xix, 431 pp.

Cognitive Grammar in Contemporary Fiction

Chloe Harrison

This book proposes an extension of Cognitive Grammar (Langacker 1987, 1991, 2008) towards a cognitive discourse grammar, through the unique environment that literary stylistic application offers. Drawing upon contemporary research in cognitive stylistics (Text World Theory, deixis and… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 26] 2017. ix, 164 pp.

The Stylistics of Landscapes, the Landscapes of Stylistics

Edited by John Douthwaite, Daniela Francesca Virdis and Elisabetta Zurru

In treating the topic of the landscapes of stylistics, this book provides a series of chapters which deal not only with physical landscapes but also with social, mental, historical portraits of places, people and society. The chapters demonstrate that all texts project a worldview, even when the… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 28] 2017. vii, 238 pp.

Worldmaking: Literature, language, culture

Edited by Tom Clark, Emily Finlay and Philippa Kelly

In 1978, Nelson Goodman explored the relation of “worlds” to language and literature, formulating the term, “worldmaking” to suggest that many other worlds can as plausibly exist as the “world” we know right now. We cannot catch or know “the world” as such: all we can catch are the world versions -… read more

[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 5] 2017. xv, 235 pp.

A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula: Volume II

Edited by César Domínguez, Anxo Abuín González and Ellen Sapega

Volume 2 of A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula brings to an end this collective work that aims at surveying the network of interliterary relations in the Iberian Peninsula. No attempt at such a comparative history of literatures in the Iberian Peninsula has been made… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXIX] 2016. xiii, 765 pp.

Literature in Contemporary Media Culture: Technology - Subjectivity- Aesthetics

Edited by Sarah J. Paulson and Anders Skare Malvik

How does contemporary literature respond to the digitalized media culture in which it takes part? And how do we study literature in order to shed light on these responses? Under the subsections Technology, Subjectivity, and Aesthetics, Literature in Contemporary Media Culture sets out to answer… read more

[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 2] 2016. xiii, 265 pp.

Transdisciplinary Approaches to Literature and Empathy

Edited by Paul Sopčák, Massimo Salgaro and J. Berenike Herrmann

Special issue of Scientific Study of Literature 6:1 (2016) v, 174 pp.

New Literary Hybrids in the Age of Multimedia Expression: Crossing borders, crossing genres

Edited by Marcel Cornis-Pope

Begun in 2010 as part of the “Histories of Literatures in European Languages” series sponsored by the International Comparative Literature Association, the current project on New Literary Hybrids in the Age of Multimedia Expression recognizes the global shift toward the visual and the virtual in… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXVII] 2014. vii, 455 pp.

Scientific Methods for the Humanities

Willie van Peer, Frank Hakemulder and Sonia Zyngier

Here is a much needed introductory textbook on empirical research methods for the Humanities. Especially aimed at students and scholars of Literature, Applied Linguistics, and Film and Media, it stimulates readers to reflect on the problems and possibilities of testing the empirical assumptions and… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 13] 2012. xxii, 328 pp.

The Future of Scientific Studies in Literature

Special issue of Scientific Study of Literature 1:1 (2011) iv, 193 pp.

A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula: Volume I

Edited by Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza, Anxo Abuín González and César Domínguez

A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula is the second comparative history of a new subseries with a regional focus, published by the Coordinating Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association. As its predecessor for East-Central Europe, this two-volume… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXIV] 2010. xiv, 750 pp.

History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume IV: Types and stereotypes

Edited by Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer

Types and stereotypes is the fourth and last volume of a path-breaking multinational literary history that incorporates innovative features relevant to the writing of literary history in general. Instead of offering a traditional chronological narrative of the period 1800-1989, the History of the… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXV] 2010. xi, 714 pp.

The Quality of Literature: Linguistic studies in literary evaluation

Edited by Willie van Peer

Evaluation is central to literary studies and has led to an impressive list of publications on the status and history of the canon. Yet it is remarkable how little attention has been given to the role of textual properties in evaluative processes. Most of the chapters in The Quality of Literature… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 4] 2008. ix, 243 pp.

BIC SubjectsLiterary theory

Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse

Anders Pettersson

Language in Place: Stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment

Edited by Daniela Francesca Virdis, Elisabetta Zurru and Ernestine Lahey

The Hero Reloaded: The reinvention of the classical hero in contemporary mass media

Edited by Rosario López Gregoris and Cristóbal Macías Villalobos

Experiencing Fictional Worlds

Edited by Benedict Neurohr and Lizzie Stewart-Shaw

Empirical Studies of Literariness

Edited by Massimo Salgaro and Paul Sopčák

Where is Adaptation?: Mapping cultures, texts, and contexts

Edited by Casie Hermansson and Janet Zepernick

Cognitive Grammar in Contemporary Fiction

Chloe Harrison

The Stylistics of Landscapes, the Landscapes of Stylistics

Edited by John Douthwaite, Daniela Francesca Virdis and Elisabetta Zurru

Worldmaking: Literature, language, culture

Edited by Tom Clark, Emily Finlay and Philippa Kelly

A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula: Volume II

Edited by César Domínguez, Anxo Abuín González and Ellen Sapega

Literature in Contemporary Media Culture: Technology - Subjectivity- Aesthetics

Edited by Sarah J. Paulson and Anders Skare Malvik

Transdisciplinary Approaches to Literature and Empathy

Edited by Paul Sopčák, Massimo Salgaro and J. Berenike Herrmann

New Literary Hybrids in the Age of Multimedia Expression: Crossing borders, crossing genres

Edited by Marcel Cornis-Pope

Scientific Methods for the Humanities

Willie van Peer, Frank Hakemulder and Sonia Zyngier

The Future of Scientific Studies in Literature

A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula: Volume I

Edited by Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza, Anxo Abuín González and César Domínguez

History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume IV: Types and stereotypes

Edited by Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer

The Quality of Literature: Linguistic studies in literary evaluation

Edited by Willie van Peer

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Bestia: Yearbook of the Beast Fable Society