englischThis study explores Bernard von Brentano’s work in exile against the background of his political transformation. Initially close to the KPD, he later was accused of rapprochement with the Nazi regime. In fact, his oeuvre, written in Switzerland, is characterized by profound patriotism. Yet, [...]

englischAt the beginning of the 21st century, writing about the Shoah in French literature is undergoing transformation processes. Soazig Aaron, Frédéric Brun, Philippe Claudel and Jean-Pierre Gattégno transform the survivor, including his duality, into a literary figure and place a clear focus on [...]

englischThrough this work, one can find a new way of interpreting Yoko Tawada's work and a new perspective on power analysis and self-play for intercultural literary studies. On the one hand, the book deals with the violent subject constitution under three kinds of power mechanisms in texts of [...]

englischIt is a widespread belief that Husserl’s conception of time obstructs the way to understanding world-time in a heideggerian sense. Unfolding world-time as one of the main topics of the last phases of Husserl’s analyses of time shall refute this criticism. The process of concretization of the [...]

Ist es möglich, untreu zu sein und trotzdem tugendhaft zu bleiben? Schnitzler kreist in seinen mittleren Dramen immer wieder um diese Frage. Mit der Sprachkrise um 1900 im Hintergrund analysiert die vorliegende Arbeit Schnitzlers pragmatische wie ethische Sprachauffassung.Letztere schafft die [...]

englischHow did intellectual elites, who had acquired their position and formed their self-conception within the Ottoman Empire, deal with its loss and change? This question is discussed by looking at their representations of Southeast Europe in Ottoman and Turkish travel literature. The study [...]

englischHardly any literary work of Classical Modernism is as well documented in its genesis as that of the Austrian author Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931). This workshop report is the first to systematically examine the diverse textual interrelationships in the author's oeuvre. Three case studies on [...]