The complex nature of globalization increasingly requires a comparative approach to literature in order to understand how migration and commodity...
This special issue of Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics explores the various functions of metaphor in life writing. Looking at...
Symbolic representation is a crucial subject for and a potent heuristic instrument of diaspora studies. This special focus inquires into the...
Our globalised world is shaped by migration, with large numbers of individuals and groups or even nations on the move. Stable concepts of home...
After the veritable hype concerning postmodernism in the 1980s and early 1990s, when questions about when it began, what it means and which...
Dieser Band untersucht Brechungen und Bilder Deutschlands und der deutschsprachigen Kultur in Kanada. Eingehende Studien zu einzelnen Autoren...
Ever since the first exploratory expeditions in the early modern period, North America has epitomized to Europeans a promise and the hope for...
Magic realism has become a significant mode of expression in Jewish cultural production. This special focus of Symbolism for the first time...
This volume concentrates on the recent explosive development of paratexts in contemporary American literature and attempts to find the reasons by...