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This volume examines how and why many early modern pictures operate in an ekphrastic mode.

The term 'cityscaping' is here introduced to characterise the creative process through which the image of the city is created and represented in various media – text, film and artefacts. It thus turns attention away from built urban spaces and onto mental images of cities. One focus is on the question of which literary, visual and acoustic means prompt their recipients' spatial imagination; another is to inquire into the semantics and functions that are ascribed to the image of a city as constructed in various media. The examples of ancient texts and works of art, and modern literature and films, are used to elucidate the artistic potential of images of the city and the techniques by which they are semanticised. With its interdisciplinary approach, the volume for the first time makes clear how strongly mental images of urban space, both ancient and modern, have been shaped by the techniques of their representation in media.

The linguae& litterae series, edited by Peter Auer, Gesa von Essen and Werner Frick, documents the research activities of the School of Languageand Literature of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS). These research activities in literary studies and linguistics are characterized by an approach that is theoretically and methodologically \"state of the art\" and interdisciplinarily open. In linguistics the accent is on the corpus-based, quantitative and qualitative investigation of language; in literary studies the focus is on the comparative, transdisciplinary analysis of literary phenomena in their cultural contexts. At the same time the series deals with the productive interfaces and synergies between modern linguistics and literary studies (as well as the humanities, social and natural sciences with which they interact). It seeks a new, contemporary reformulation of the humanities research curriculum and its problem and concept orientation for the future. The series has a clear international orientation - each volume is multilingual, containing German, English and French contributions and, depending on the volume, articles in Italian or Spanish as well. Each individual volume is peer reviewed by an international editorial board. Each year 2-4 volumes are published.

Obwohl die Bezüge auf die Architektur in der Literatur vielfältig sind, werden sie erst seit kurzem systematisch betrachtet. Germanistische, romanistische und anglistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftler sowie Kunsthistoriker haben bei einer Freiburger Tagung neue Perspektiven erprobt und Fallstudien präsentiert, aus denen die Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes hervorgingen. Sie konzentrieren sich auf Texte und Kontexte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, die Zeit, in der eine enorme Präsenz der Architektur in der Literatur und komplexe ästhetische Interdependenzen zwischen beiden Künsten festzustellen sind – nicht zuletzt weil die Stilfrage im Zuge des architektonischen Historismus und seiner Überwindung neue Bedeutung erhielt und der Raum sich als eine zentrale Kategorie in der ästhetischen Theorie etablierte. Untersucht wird, wie in der europäischen Literatur der Moderne Architekturen thematisiert und repräsentiert werden, welche Funktion ihrer Beschreibung und Imagination für den jeweiligen Text, für seine Form, Struktur und Ästhetik sowie für den Prozess der Narration zukommt.