1. The Historical Pathetic

   • Richard Aczel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 14

2. Keywords in Literary History

   • Mihály Szegedy-Maszák

   OriginalPaper Pages: 15 - 23

3. Why Intertextuality and Rewriting Can Become Crucial Concepts in Literary Historiography

   • Douwe Fokkema

   OriginalPaper Pages: 25 - 32

4. Towards an Experimental View of Literary History

   • Eva Kushner

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 39

5. Marginal Characters of (Literary Hi)story: The Popular, the Avant-Garde, the Subcultural in Totalizing Literary Historical Narratives

   • György C Kálmán

   OriginalPaper Pages: 41 - 47

6. Story Cycles as a Challenge to Literary History

   • Péter Hajdu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 57

7. Comparative Literary History as an Elitist Metanarrative

   • Gerald Gillespie

   OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 64

8. Gleichzeitigkeit des Ungleichzeitigen or Literary History with Multiple Timelines

   • John Neubauer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 70

9. Transnational and Inter-National Perspectives in post-1989 Comparative Literary History

   • Marcel Cornis-Pope

   OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 78

10. Resisting the Global: The Importance of the National for a Comparative History of Iberian Literatures

    • Randolph D. Pope

    OriginalPaper Pages: 79 - 84

11. An Aftermath Consideration on the Role of Teleology in Iberian Literary Historiographies

    • Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza

    OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 96

12. Mexico's Oral Narrative and Global Contexts

    • Daniel Chamberlain

    OriginalPaper Pages: 97 - 102

13. Narrative Identität im ,,Roman eines Schicksallosen"

    • Beáta Thomka

    OriginalPaper Pages: 105 - 117

14. Richard Foreman's Paradise Hotel and Georges Feydeau's Farces

    • Robert J. Andreach

    OriginalPaper Pages: 119 - 132

15. On Canetti's Social Theory

    • Robert Elbaz

    OriginalPaper Pages: 133 - 144

16. Shakespeare and Philosophicalness

    • Claus Uhlig

    OriginalPaper Pages: 147 - 162

17. Storms, Sea Crossings, the Challenges of Nature, and the Transformation of the Protagonist in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

    • Albrecht Classen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 163 - 182

18. Mediality and Forms of Interpretation of Artworks

    • Áron Kibédi Varga

    OriginalPaper Pages: 183 - 191

19. Scatology, Form and Meaning in the Novels of Alex La Guma and Biyi Bandele-Thomas

    • Jude Agho

    OriginalPaper Pages: 195 - 208

20. “Faust in miniatura”. Dal “Faust” di Goethe al romanzo “Las ilusiones del Doctor Faustino” di Valera

    • Nicola Bietolini

    OriginalPaper Pages: 209 - 225

21. La Nouvelle Héloïse de Jean-Jacques Rousseau et la Pauvre Liza de N. M. Karamzine

    • Inna Gorbatov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 227 - 240

22. The Direction of Indirection in Igbo Discourse: A Rereading of Chinua Achebe's Trilogy

    • Nkem Okoh

    OriginalPaper Pages: 241 - 256