The present volume on Jay Kristoff’s Nevernight (2016) offers a selection of the contributions to an online seminar course conducted by Thomas Kullmann in the spring and summer of 2020, during the coronavirus lockdown. The students explore the literary techniques found in Nevernight and engage in discussions of this novel’s cultural and personal significance. The volume documents reader responses and provides a non-dogmatic introduction to literary criticism and scholarship. It explores the properties of fantasy writing as well as its relevance with regard to contemporary manners, ethics and politics.weiterlesen