Books in the ALPH: Arbeiten zur Literarischen Phantastik / ALPH: Approaches to Literary Phantasy series

In the English-speaking world, the medieval concept of Cokaygne as a paradisiac landscape made of food is merely preserved as a part of American folklore, the "Big Rock Candy Mountain". This book links the notion of cannibalism to the imagined cornucopia of food in children's literature.

This work analyses P. L. Travers' Mary Poppins material in terms of its intertextuality and psychological factors. It identifies elements of myth and fairy tale in the collection, and contrasts the text with classics of children's literature by Carroll, Barrie, MacDonald and Nesbit. It also explores a psychoanalytical reading of Mary Poppins.

Literary ancient Egypt was used by Victorian and Edwardian writers to criticize the Western mindset, both in regard to Orientalism as well as industrialization, scientific development and arrogance towards different cultures.

This collection of articles looks at ghost stories ranging from the Middle Ages to contemporary movies from different perspectives, both interdisciplinary and international. Spectral phenomena from Antarctic literature to Haitian Voodoo, Russian poetry to Irish novels are discussed in relation to their places in history and the media.