Literaturwissenschaft

Anyone who reads is automatically directly involved in a world of encounters with words and texts. Literary studies endeavours to make this world accessible, which consists of posing questions and offering answers to them and of setting tasks and providing solutions to them in the field of language. This book aims to focus attention on what we do when we read and write texts. Using examples and encouraging critical participation and analysis, it addresses reading and understanding, plots and storylines, ways of structuring texts, formatting and composing using textual and visual media and the fundamental elements of philological work in five chapters.

With contributions by
Thomas Böning, Heinrich Bosse, Rüdiger Campe, Bernhard Dotzler, Erika Greber, Wolfram Groddeck, Günther Heeg, Friedrich Kittler, Claudia Liebrand, Christine Lubkoll, Gerhard Neumann, Michael Niehaus, Thomas Pittrof, Ursula Renner, Manfred Schneider, Bernd Stiegler, Philipp Theisohn, Jürgen Trabant, Klaus Weimar and David E. Wellbery.