englischLiterature produces textual bodies in (at least) two ways: it creates textual corpora as well as linguistic representations of bodies and body images. This volume is devoted to negotiations of bodies and text in literature and film from the nineteenth century to the present: bodies in texts, [...]

englisch‘The Taste of Freedom’ examines the connection between aesthetics and politics in Kant and various theories based on his ideas (Arendt, Rancière, Rorty, etc.). Using the idea of political unconsciousness, this book also addresses literary texts from Hölderlin to Proust, Nabokov and Wallace. [...]

englischUpon being diagnosed with a brain tumor, Wolfgang Herrndorf started his blog ‘Arbeit und Struktur’ (Work and Structure) in 2010, which was posthumously published in the form of a book. The blog relays a self-narrative in which he reflects on the challenges of his illness, consequently [...]

englischRaue Rhythmen is the first study to present Hölderlin’s Nachtgesänge, the last of the texts he published during his lifetime, as a coherent cycle. The concept of rhythm makes it possible to trace Hölderlin’s historical signature on the path of modernity and to emphasise the special position [...]

englischContemporary culture is characterised by a peculiar desire for crime narratives. Novels, non-fiction books, films, TV series or podcasts that deal with real or fictional murders, acts of fraud or spectacular thefts attract a wide audience and often become the object of public fascination. [...]

englischThe reception of E. T. A. Hoffmann as a representative of Dark Romanticism is firmly established in popular cultural institutions: This is particularly evident in contemporary productions of the opera »Les Contes d’Hoffmann« by Jacques Offenbach and Jules Barbier. In this study, the often [...]

englischWith the ‘Lebens-Ansichten des Katers Murr nebst fragmentarischer Biographie des Kapellmeister Johannes Kreisler in zufälligen Makulaturblättern’ (1819/1921), E.T.A. Hoffmann, the author, composer, illustrator and legal scholar, created a piece of writing that can be considered one of the [...]

englischGarbage has completely different semantics in a museum showcase than in a forest or a landfill site. Likewise, the proximity of figures to garbage has an essential social and aesthetic impact on them. Therefore, this study focuses on the spatial and figurative effects that are always [...]

englischFranziska zu Reventlow’s novels have long been received as autobiographical references to her ‘scandalous’ life. Focusing instead on the narrative strategies and intermedial structure of her work, this study foregrounds Reventlow’s ironic deconstruction of cultural and literary traditions as [...]