Boredom and melancholy in the experience of reading.

Contemporary graphic novels show an interesting shift from the extraordinary to the ordinary in slice-of-life stories in which nothing happens. Present-day graphic accounts are inhabited by melancholic characters whining about the lack of meaning in life. This book examines this intriguing transition and brings a historical, aesthetical and narratological approach to comics in which boredom is not only a topic, but also awakens a deliberate...

The analysis of translated texts and investigations into the cognitive mechanisms involved in the process of translation have been at the core of translation studies so far. Yet Personality Matters ventures into the previously uncharted territories by bringing the translator’s inherent psychological and cognitive features into the limelight. Combining psychology and translation studies, this monograph looks into the role of the translator’s psychological features in self-revision, the mai...

Eine Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft, die allen Ansprüchen der BA/MA-Studiengänge entspricht. Geballtes Basiswissen, kompakt und dennoch leicht verständlich:

- didaktisch aufgebaut

- modular strukturiert

- Literaturwissenschaft und Literaturgeschichte in einem Band

utb basics Lehrbücher mit einem klaren Konzept:

- Merksätze und Definitionen erleichtern das Behalten des Stoffes

- Testfragen fördern das Verständnis

- ideal für die Prüfungsvorbereitung

De Griekse tragedie, de Russische roman, de Italiaanse cinema en de Duitse Romantiek; Bach, Monty Python, Chanel en Brancusi - Europa is meer dan crisis in de eurozone en regelzucht vanuit Brussel. Wat bindt Europa werkelijk? Welke culturele verworvenheden zijn typisch Europees en maken de Europeaan trots? In Made in Europe verdiept Pieter Steinz zich in het culturele DNA van ons continent. Aan de hand van 104 essays-in-pilvorm en evenzovele kleine 'vignetten' maakt hij een rondreis langs de ...

Waarom worden sommige teksten als 'literair' gewaardeerd? Hoe verhoudt het medium 'tekst' zich tot andere media? Hoe verloopt het leesproces en wanneer geven lezers hun eigen interpretaties? Hoe beïnvloedt de literatuur onze kijk op de werkelijkheid? Waarom is een 'nationale canon' geen vanzelfsprekendheid en is niets wat het lijkt in het tradition

Includes an in-depth interview with French cartoonist Joann Sfar.

'Sfar So Far' is the first monograph in any language devoted to the graphic novels of Joann Sfar, an artist whose abundant and innovative work has profoundly marked the contemporary French comics scene. This essay examines how, over the past two decades, Sfar has constructed an idiosyncratic universe with its own thematic and stylistic recurrences: a playful drafting style, contrasting with the thoughtful introduction of histor...

Countless literary endeavours by ‘new Germans’ have come into the spotlight of academic research since the turn of the 21st century. Yet ‘minority writing’ and its distinctive renegotiation of traditional concepts of cultural identity are far from a recent phenomenon in German literature. More than a hundred years ago, German-Jewish writers put a clear stamp on German modernism and were intensely engaged in various cultural and political discourses on Jewish identity. This book is the...