Today's spectrum of research in literary studies is characterized by a sense of openness to the
methods of comparative literature and cultural studies along with a wide range of
interdisciplinary crossover. The spectrum Literaturwissenschaft series is intended to be a
forum for this pluralistic new model of literary studies. It presents papers that are informed
by methodologically innovative frequently comparative approaches and whose findings are of
importance well beyond the narrow boundaries of national philological horizons.
