Romanische Forschungen

Building on theoretical approaches from the field of border studies, the paper studies the aesthetics and poetics of borders in literary representations of the Alpine region. The focus is on the restructuring of national borders between Austria and...

This article focuses on the illnesses of middle-aged women in late capitalism that are enhanced by – to use the extended metaphor – the illness of the economic system itself. To this end, it analyzes two contemporary novels that autofictionalize...

This article focuses on the so-called concealed exclamations in Spanish ( DP s semantically equivalent to indirect exclamative clauses). Its basic aim is to show how the type of noun affects four aspects of these structures: the presence/absence of...

Diderot's writings bear witness to his admiration for people and their achievements, whether technical or artistic. After recalling the history of the notion of admiration, we saw that, in the article *Admiration, Diderot defines admiration as...