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Literary Themes
New Comparison, Number 6 (Autumn 1988). Edited by Holger Klein

Contents
  • Themes and Thematology (Holger Klein, Norwich)
  • Venice at First Sight: Prolegomena for a New View on Thematics (Angelika Corbineau-Hoffmann, Mainz)
  • Venice Preserved: History, Myth and Literary Creation (Andrée Mansau, Toulouse)
  • The 'Traitor to his People': A Contribution to the Phenomenology of Treachery in Literature (Hans-Georg Grüning, Macerata)
  • Variations on the Myth of the Magus (György E. Szönyi, Szeged)
  • Victims of their own Contending Passions: Unexpected Death in Adolphe, Ivanhoe and Wuthering Heights (Terence Dawson, Singapore)
  • Dialogue with the Dead: The Deceased Beloved as Muse (Elisabeth Bronfen, Munich)
  • Images of Landscape in Contemporary French Poetry: Ponge, Char and Dupin (Sieghild Bogumil, Bochum)
  • Nature and Perception: Versions of a Dialectic in European City Poetry (Walter Bachem, Bochum)
  • Autumn Poems and Literary Impressionism: Conceptualisation, Thematisation and Classification (Ziva Ben-Porat, Tel Aviv)

  • From Idyll to Arsenal: The Changing Image of Germany in France as seen through the Work of Xavier Marmer (1808-1892) (Wendy Mercer, London)
  • The Art of the Improvisers: Jazz and Fiction in Post-Bebop America (Julian Cowley, London)
  • Tin Drum and Snake-Charmer's Flute: Salman Rushdie's Debt to Günter Grass (E.W. Herd, Otago)

Reviews
  • Horst S. and Ingrid Daemmrich, Themes and Motifs in Western Literature: A Handbook (Gerald Gillespie)
  • Gisbert Kranz, Meisterwerke in Bildgedichten: Rezeption von Kunst in der Poesie; Das Bildgedicht: Theorie, Lexikon, Bibliographie, vol. 3; Das Architekturgedicht (Clive Scott)
  • Christiane Schenk, Venedig im Spiegel der Decadence-Literatur des Fin de siècle (R.B. Pynsent)
  • Peter Edgerly Firchow, The Death of the German Cousin: Variations on a Literary Stereotype, 1890-1920 (E.A. McCobb)
  • Peter Boerner (ed.), Concepts of National Identity: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue (Kay Chadwick)
  • Gerhart Hoffmeister, Deutsche und europäische Barockliteratur (Leonard Forster)
  • Adrian Poole, Tragedy: Shakespeare and the Greek Example (Elizabeth Maslen)
  • Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare's Ghost Writers: Literature as Uncanny Casualty (Ritchie Robertson)
  • Peter V. Zima and Johann Strutz (eds), Europäische Avantgarde (E.W. Foster)
  • Yael S. Feldman, Modernism and Cultural Transfer: Gabriel Preil and the Tradition of Jewish Literary Bilingualism (Risa Domb)
  • Janet Garton (ed.), Facets of European Modernism: Essays in Honour of James McFarlane (George Bisztray)
  • Report on 'Work in Progress': Literary Translation in Korea during the Early Modern Period (1895-1940) (Theresa M. Hyun, Seoul)


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