englischHistorical narrative was one of the most prominent narrative forms in the 19th century. But it was always also future-oriented. In this volume, this flipside of addressing the past is examined from a historical and systematic perspective using the following guiding questions: How can [...]

englischThe study ‘›Haltung‹ und Realismus. Zur Theorie poetischer Verallgemeinerung’ investigates the political implications of the concept of form in the context of the (post-)Marxist debate on literary realism between Georg Lukács, Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno and Alexander [...]

englischPossibility thinking and experimentation in literature have a long tradition—yet their current significance in literary studies research on the relationship between experimentation and literature has been discussed only hesitantly to date. By means of a comparison of different concepts of [...]

englischThe paradigm of disturbance is a powerful and, to date, unexplored mode of literary modernism. Through individual analyses of selected German-language prose from the Romantic period to the present (Tieck, Droste-Hülshoff, Büchner, Kafka, Aichinger, Kracht, and others), this study examines [...]

englischHölderlin’s reflections on form can be grasped with the concept of the ›principle of form‹, which transforms a fragment into a productive concept with reference to the ›logic of being produced‹ (Adorno). The tragic fragment, as a principle of form, divides tragedy and the tragic. In order to [...]

englischWhy is Dante’s Divine Comedy, summa of the Middle Ages and a Catholic–Christian epic of salvation, still relevant in a literary system that sees itself as completely secularised? This study shows how the authors of late German realism focus on the fragmentary appropriation of Dante’s work [...]

englischIn literary texts of the early 20th century, human hands seem to become increasingly problematic. This study traces literary depictions of ›unruly hands‹ in the context of developments in the history of the media, technology and knowledge. Against the backdrop of circulating interests in [...]

englischUnder the impact of the First World War, waiting had replaced fighting in an emphatic sense, had become a generational experience both in the field and at home, and had been transformed into a form of heroism involving perseverance and endurance. The accent had shifted away from heroism as [...]

englischFascinating and enigmatic to this day: The Accurata Utopiae Tabula, an anonymous map of Cockaigne accompanied by an explanatory book (thought to be by Schnebelin), inspired the likes of Leibniz and was a popular supplement to atlases around 1700. Extensively embellished with euonyms for its [...]

englischThis study examines the theory of the novel and the conceptualisation of gender as having been inextricably intertwined since the inception of the former and the rise of modernity. Authors of these theories sought to address not only the relatively young genre of the novel, but also the [...]