Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Mads Rosendahl Thomsen is Professor of Comparative Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the author of Mapping World Literature: International Canonization and Transnational Literature (2008) and The New Human in Literature: Posthuman Visions of Changes in Body, Mind and Society (2013), and the editor of several volumes, including World Literature: A Reader (2012). He is a member of the Academia Europaea and an advisory board member of the Institute for World Literature.

Lasse Horne Kjaeldgaard is Professor of Literature at Roskilde University, Denmark. He is a member of the Danish Academy of Letters and former Director of the Danish Society for Language and Literature. He has authored several monographs on Danish literary and cultural history, including The Meaning of the Welfare State: Welfare State Debate and Danish Literature, 1950-1980 (2017), The Soul after Death: The Modern Breakthrough of the Golden Age (2007) and Between-Each-Other: Tableaux and Narrative in Søren Kierkegaards Pseudonymous Works (2001), as well as being a contributor to A History of Danish Literature] (2006-09).

Lis Møller is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark. She is the author of Erindringens poetik: William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey (2011) and The Freudian Reading: Analytical and Fictional Constructions (1991; republished as eBook 2016) and co-editor since 2012 of Romantik. Journal for the Study of Romanticisms. She is the editor of several volumes including a textbook in literary analysis, Om litteraturanalyse (1995).

Lilian Munk Rösing is Associate Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. She has published four books (three in Danish, one in English) and a large number of articles combining psychoanalysis with literary and cultural criticism. Latest publication: Pixar with Lacan: The Hysteric's Guide to Animation (2016).

Peter Simonsen is Professor of European Literature at the University of Southern Denmark. He is the author of Wordsworth and Word-Preserving Arts (2007) and several related articles on Romanticism, ekphrasis and textual materiality. In 2014 he published (in Danish) Lifelong Lives, a study of fiction about old age and the welfare state. Peter was co-editor of Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis published by Bloomsbury in 2017.