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 [...]
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englischThe Yearbook on Hofmannsthal and European modernity has been published since 1993 and is regarded as the most important instrument of research into Hofmannsthal. It places the works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929) in the aesthetic and socio-historical context of modern European culture [...]
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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 [...]
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englischSociety's view of dying and death no longer corresponds to the fixed images with which the corresponding areas of knowledge were associated until a few years ago. For a long time, the supposedly ›unambiguous‹ levels of meaning of this complex issue were stable enough to paralyse social [...]
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englischThis year’s issue of Limbus contains essays which deal with the subject of murder in highly diverse ways. These contributions include the perspectives of legal philosophy in the 19th and 20th centuries, modern criminalistics, literary history and Marxist philosophy, among others. In literary [...]
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englischDe miseriis studiosorum declamatio by Lucas Geizkofler is an artful disquisition that illuminates the disastrous situation of students in the 16th century. This book offers the first complete edition of this neo-Latin student lament, which is not only amusing to read, but also has a high [...]
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englischLanguage is not only a means of communication, but also shapes and limits our understanding of the world. Modernity’s realisation of this fact has led the study of language to increasingly examine its own tool critically, which in turn has led to remaining silent, that is, deliberately [...]
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englischHow can we understand borders in terms of aesthetic practice? As borders are increasingly moving into the centre of cultural negotiations, the essays in this volume focus on anglophone fiction, film and TV series which employ border-crossing narratives and engage in narrative poetics of [...]
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englischDe miseriis studiosorum declamatio by Lucas Geizkofler is an artful disquisition that illuminates the disastrous situation of students in the 16th century. This book offers the first complete edition of this neo-Latin student lament, which is not only amusing to read, but also has a high [...]
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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 [...]
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