Werner Wolf is Professor and Chair of English and General Literature at the University of Graz, Austria. Main areas of research: literary theory (aesthetic illusion, narratology, metafiction/metareference), functions of literature, 18th- to 21st-century English fiction, intermediality studies (including word–music and word–image relationships). Walter Bernhart is emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Graz, president of the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA), executive editor of Word and Music Studies (WMS) and Studies in Intermediality (SIM); his collected essays on literature and music were published as WMS 14 (2015).