Prof. Dr. Burkhard Niederhoff

Ten Representative Publications - A Selection

“Tenor and Vehicle, Target and Source? Against Dualism in Metaphor Theory.” Metaphor Papers, 20, 2025, pp. 1-50.

"Parody, Paradox and Play in The Importance of Being Earnest." Connotations, vol. 13, 2003/2004, pp. 32-55. / Rpt. in Oscar Wilde: New Edition, edited by Harold Bloom, Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2011, pp. 101-21. / Rpt. in The Importance of Being Earnest: A Norton Critical Edition, edited by Michael Patrick Gillespie, Norton, 2022.

With Lena Linne. "'[M]emories and similes laid side by side': The Paratactic Poetics of Alice Oswald’s Memorial". Connotations, vol. 27, 2018, pp. 19-47.

"The Return of the Dead in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing and Alias Grace." Connotations, vol. 16, 2006/2007, pp. 60-91. / Rpt. in Contemporary Literature Criticism, vol. 371, edited by Lawrence J. Trudeau, Gale, 2015, pp. 68-80.

Die englische Komödie: Eine Einführung. Berlin: Schmidt, 2014.

"Unlived Lives in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day and Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love." Connotations, vol. 20, 2010/2011, pp. 164-88.

"E.M. Forster and the Supersession of Plot by Leitmotif: A Reading of Aspects of the Novel and Howards End." Anglia, vol. 112, 1994, pp. 341-63. / Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, vol. 125, edited by Janet Witalec et al., Gale, 2003, pp. 128-36.

"Crossing Parallels: Analysing a Leitmotif in Derek Walcott's Omeros." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, vol. 50, 2002, pp. 353-65.

"The Rule of Contrary": Das Paradox in der englischen Komödie der Restaurationszeit und des frühen 18. Jahrhunderts. Trier: WVT, 2001.

Erzähler und Perspektive bei Robert Louis Stevenson. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 1994.