Taking Stock – Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research

Norbert Bachleitner is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna/Austria. His fields of interest include the reception of English and French literature in the German speaking area; literary translation and transfer studies; social history of literature; censorship; literature in periodicals; intertextuality, and digital literature. His most recent book publication is Die literarische Zensur in Österreich von 1751 bis 1848(2017).Achim Hermann Hölter is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna/Austria. His thematic priorities are European Romanticism, the exploration of topics and discourses, the historiography of fine arts and literature, ritualisations around literature, aesthetics metareference, aesthetic completeness, comparative arts, comics, international reception studies, canon studies, libraries in literature, and multilingualism in comparative literature. He co-edited with Rüdiger Zymner: Handbuch Komparatistik. Theorien, Arbeitsfelder, Wissenspraxis (2013).John A. McCarthy is Professor of German & Comparative Literature emeritus at Vanderbilt University. His interests range from the European Enlightenment, to readership studies, the history of Germanics, Romanticism, the relationship of social history, philosophy, science, and law to literature. He recently edited Shakespeare as German Author: Reception, Translation Theory, Cultural Transfer (2018).

"The volume Taking Stock offers a valuable overview of current trends in comparative literature [...]. Since this book is very broad in scope, nearly any scholar of literature and cultural history will find some topics, approaches, concepts, and references of interest. Given that the collected texts are for the most part, case studies, they can be viewed as heuristic examples as well."-Igor Tyšš, Institute of World Literature SAS, Slovak Republic, in World Literature Studies, Vol. 13 Iss. 2, 2021, pp. 99-101

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionPart 1Comparative and World Literature1 Comparative Literature: Being at Home in the WorldJohn A. McCarthy 2 An On/Off Affair. Voltaire in Eighteenth-Century ViennaNorbert Bachleitner 3 Ludwig Tieck’s Book Collection: the Holdings of the Austrian National Library (önb)Achim Hölter and Paul FerstlPart 2Literature and History (of Ideas)4 Pride and Conviviality – Pride in Conviviality. The Rise and Recognition of a Prospective ForceOttmar Ette 5 Enlightened Citizenship in Lessing’s Emilia Galotti and Mozart’s Lucio Silla Carl Niekerk 6 Good Comrades for Young Readers: the First World War in the Fiction of Boys’ Periodicals in Britain and GermanyBarbara Korte 7 Fighting the ‘Freudian Farce’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Portrayal of America’s Post-War Infatuation with PsychoanalysisJuliane Werner Part 3Women and Gender Studies8 Enlightenment Angst: James Parsons’ A Mechanical and Critical Enquiry into the Nature of HermaphroditesStephanie M. Hilger 9 Writing the Nation, Writing the Self: Discourses of Identity in Fanny Lewald’s Italienisches Bilderbuch and George Sand’s Un hiver à MajorqueSandra Vlasta 10 ‘Jewish Mothers’ by Jenny Erpenbeck, Julia Franck, and Adriana AltarasAgnes C. Mueller 11 Theorising Central European Postcoloniality: a Postcommunist Reading of 21st Century Literature from Slovakia Dobrota Pucherová Part 4Aesthetics and Textual Analysis12 Aesthetic Illusion and the Breaking of Illusion in Ancient Literature?Werner Wolf 13 Intermediality in Twentieth Century Animal Poetry. Guillaume Apollinaire – Ted Hughes – Durs Grünbein Annette Simonis 14 Autofiction and Its (Involuntary) Protagonists: A Comparison of Autofictional Novels by Mario Vargas Llosa, Javier Cercas, Karl Ove Knausgård, and Navid Kermani Stefan Kutzenberger 15 ‘Sometimes things begin with the wrong book’: Images and Intertexts in Darryl Pinckney’s Black DeutschlandGianna ZoccoPart 5Translation and Tradition16 Translation, Transmission, Irony: Benoît de Sainte-Maure and the Trope of the Fictional Source Text in Western Literature before CervantesDaniel Syrovy 17 Of ‘Conversion’ and ‘Reversal’: Georg Philipp Harsdörffer and His Adoptions of Jean Pierre Camus in the Context of the Counter-Reformation, Reform Catholicism, and Jansenism Christoph Schmitt-Maaß 18 The Romes of Titus AndronicusManfred Pfister 19 Towards a Global South Literary Genealogy: M. G. Vassanji and Joseph Conrad as Secret Sharers in The Book of Secrets and Heart of DarknessRussell West-Pavlov Index