In line with the great changes that took place after World War I, in the societies of German-speaking countries women achieved important goals in the struggle for emancipation. Yet, once legal rights were gained, women had ...

Mela Hartwig’s story Aufzeichnungen einer Häßlichen, first published in 1928, is about a nurse who thinks she is unspeakably ugly and falls unhappily in love with her superior doctor. The protagonist tells her own story ...

The paper investigates the relationship between Yourcenar’s monologue “Clytemnestre ou le crime” and Aeschylus’ tragedy “Agamemnon” in the literary representation of the sexual identity of the mythical queen Clytemnestra. ...

The purpose of this work is to investigate the image of the new woman in Spanish culture and literature of the Twenties and Thirties, through a wide and varied corpus that includes both the novel and various forms of ...

This article provides a queer reading of Sasha Marianna Salzmann’s novel Außer sich (2017). Telling the story of the transition of the main character Ali, the novel meets the readers’ expectations of a queer novel. While ...

This article examines the collection of short stories Irres Wetter (2000) by contemporary author Kathrin Röggla with the aim of focusing on the narrative and linguistic strategies with which the writer represents a ...

This study builds upon meta-operational grammar, firstly postulated by Adamczewski (1983) and later developed and applied to the Spanish language analysis by Matte Bon above all. This research has the objective of ...