englisch‘Hofmannsthal – Jahrbuch zur europäischen Moderne’ has been published since 1993 and is considered the most important organ of Hofmannsthal research. It places the works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929) in the aesthetic and socio-historical context of European modernist culture and, in [...]

englischThe politics, culture and people of Northern Europe have had a decisive influence on the history of pan-European encounters for millennia, a fact that is insufficiently reflected in scholarly attention. This handbook draws attention to these shortcomings and is the first work to [...]

englischMetabolic and digestive concepts shape how we speak about literature and reading. It is a matter of 'digesting' the material and 'letting it sink in' or letting remarkable passages 'melt in one's mouth'. Fictional as well as non-fictional texts virtually labour on the knowledge of food, [...]

englischRepresentations of theatre and dance were and are as broad as they are connectable. This also applies to the academic study of theatre and dance. In this handbook, experts provide insights into the history (or histories) of both art forms, definitions and basic terms, methods and theories as [...]

englischFor an academic discipline like German studies to make its mark, global networking is essential, especially in a country such as Australia, which due to its geostrategic location does not allow for proliferent German studies research in the same way that Europe does. ‘Limbus—The Australian [...]

englischThe studies collected in this book illustrate a basic theory and methodology of cultural techniques research using concrete historical case studies. Accordingly, this book aims to analyse situations of elementary symbolisation processes in which the distinctions between the real and the [...]