The series of publications of Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies at Freie Universität Berlin stands for internationally oriented literary studies which go beyond an exclusive focus on the Western tradition and turn towards the European, American, Arabic and Asian literatures of modernity, medieval times and antiquity. The publication forum offers monographs and anthologies which present an exemplary effort within their subject and at the same time cross its boundaries into the philologies and literatures of the world. The purpose is the integration of single disciplinary and comparative research involving neighbouring discursive practices. Friedrich Schlegel's approach obliges to do research of literary cultures from a universal-poetic perspective. International Board Ute Berns (Universität Hamburg) Stefan Keppler-Tasaki (Universität Tokyo) Renate Lachmann (Universität Konstanz) Catriona MacLeod (University of Chicago) Ken'ichi Mishima (Tokyo Keizai Universität) Glenn W. Most (Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa) Janet A. Walker (Rutgers University) Christy Wampole (Princeton University) Christopher Young (University of Cambridge)