"Joins a growing body of scholarship dealing with the productive relationship between literature and cognitive studies while also positing a new theory of moder

"Even after the end of modernism and postmodernism, the grandiose fantasies of artifice and self-reference that have informed so much modernist literature still

A much-needed look at the fiction that was actually read by masses of Germans in the late nineteenth century, and the conditions of its publication and receptio

New essays employing a multitude of approaches to the works of Kleist, in the process shedding light on our present modernity. Modernity, according to some view

Analyzes the transformation of German-language pastoral from a portrayal of the idyllic lives of herdsmen into a vehicle for the concerns and aspirations of the