englischThis introduction to music and memory is aimed at students of musicology and all others who are interested in music. It first approaches the topic by taking a look at current interdisciplinary memory theories and memory research, then examines the aspects of forgetting and storing memories, [...]

englischThis introductory book is intended for students of Scandinavian studies who are primarily interested in modern Scandinavian literary studies. It combines a thorough theory-based and problem-oriented overview of the most important methods currently used in literary, media and cultural studies [...]

englischIn »Szenarien des Übergangs« Miriam Althammer looks at a topic that has so far been neglected in Dance Studies: the impact of Europe's eastward expansion on contemporary dance. Using the example of the East-West exchange at the Tanzquartier Wien in the early 2000s, she examines the [...]

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, [...]

englischThe Kulturkampf, the conflict between the German Reich and the Catholic Church in the 1870s and 1880s, was an epochal event. It had a lasting impact on the relationship between the denominations and the relationship between the state and religion in Germany and marked a fundamental crisis of [...]

englischThis book explores research into modern, everyday culture, explaining its history as well as key terms and showing its development alongside central socio-political trends. Additionally, this book contains a brief overview of current research fields and provides meaningful insights into [...]

englischThis edited study is the first book in a new series of publications which aims to revise the wide spectrum of what are now regarded as comics (including caricatures, cartoons, graphic novels, etc.), broadening the view of Comics Studies, not only retrospectively but also prospectively at a [...]

englischThe military system was one of the most important factors in Greco-Roman society and has been the subject of numerous studies in recent years. This anthology contains essays in Italian, Spanish and English by José Vela Tejada, Francesco Fiorucci, Anna Busetto, Philip Rance, Georgis Chatzelis [...]

englisch‘Liberating counter-experiences’: to what does that phrase refer and what is its immediate relevance? Where might it take our thoughts? There are experiences with which, for whatever reason, people cannot come to terms; they challenge us to ask: What, in such difficult, even threatening, [...]

englischThis first volume from the series on modernity and media studies provides an insight into the dimensions and functional potential of a retrospective look at the 1920s. Focusing on Babylon Berlin, the contributions explore the question of how ›society‹, ›culture‹, ›history‹ and ›reality‹ are [...]

englischWe encounter tricksters’ grins in myths, legends and other fictional or historical narratives. They populate liminal spaces and thus do not only transgress binary boundaries. As confusion and provocation of the familiar, tricksters enable us to pause for a moment, and they offer new [...]

englischOver the last few decades, increased production of films and series that have fantastical structures has been observed, especially in Romance language-speaking countries and the US. A renewed boom in the genre is thus apparent in those nations which had already been at the epicentre of the [...]

englischIn the essays in this book, the author traces structures of time as a factor in shaping choreographies. How do concepts and bodily experiences of temporality intertwine in the production, performance and perception of a dance piece? And in what way is the tension between ephemerality and [...]

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 [...]

englischBy applying the theoretical concepts of ‘discourse’ and ‘mental schema’ to textual analysis, the author presents an innovative analysis of important Spanish novels and essays from the recent past, focusing on the relationship between literary text and collective knowledge. Considering [...]

englischRelics—objects perceived as old—tell us about times gone by. They can be used to describe age and to connect the past, the present and the future. With the material turn and temporality research, this book combines two research directions from recent decades and takes a diachronic look at [...]

englischFestivals and games are important cultural and social factors in Greek-Roman antiquity that are often not considered in the classroom. This volume, which contains the lectures held at the 30th Summer Academy of the Ministry of Education of the State of Baden-Württemberg, illuminates the [...]

englischGerman Schlager music has undergone great modernisation in recent years—stars like Helene Fischer, Andrea Berg, Vanessa Mai and Beatrice Egli have freed the genre from its outdated image. Fischer in particular is setting new standards through her acrobatic stage shows, modern pop–schlager [...]

englischAs archived archiving apparatuses, letter copying books are media in their own right. This work is dedicated to these mostly unknown objects and explains their dual function as archiving and archived media.

The study’s comprehensive research into different letter copying books reveals [...]

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 [...]

englischThe chorus is situated within the friction between individuality and collectivity, or, to quote Nietzsche, between Apollo and Dionysus. A close look at choruses in dramas of the 20th and 21st centuries reveals this relationship. How does a chorus act as a group? And what happens to this [...]

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. [...]

englischSecrecy is a notion that is central to many different cultures, although it can mean different things and operate differently in those different cultural contexts. In a German context, Friedrich Nietzsche believed the secret was the foundation of culture, while Georg Simmel concluded secrecy [...]

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 [...]

englischFingerpicking and fingerstyle, terms which are often used synonymously, refer to a way of playing the guitar that developed in the USA around 1900 and which attempts to imitate the pianistic style of ragtime. In addition to engaging in a discourse on the term, this study shows when, where, [...]

englischWhoever speaks of memory must not remain silent about death. The preservation of knowledge, events and also sensations, etc. gains its importance precisely through the fundamental transience of human activity. The memory of the lifeworld of the deceased therefore does not provide authentic [...]

englischThe fascination of the royal game has always occupied the arts and science, resulting in compositions, paintings, stage works, etc. In addition, the explosive development of artificial intelligence (AI) has given chess a new dimension and importance, even as a model for scientific theories. [...]

englischIn Homer’s Iliad, the main character, Achilles, twice takes a course of action that upends decisions which he himself had previously proclaimed to be irrevocable. Achilles had refused to battle on the side of the Greeks – and then rejoins the fight as their ally. He had announced several [...]

englischThese fifteen papers, published between 1987 and 2022, discuss the following themes: criticism of classicistic translations of Homer and Ovid; the history of the reception of Virgil, Horace and Lucian in literature and Classics; selected humanists and their study of ancient authors in the [...]

englischThere is often amazement at how a culture that seems familiar can upend our expectations. This volume offers 18 studies on characteristic peculiarities of Rome. A first group is devoted to the concept of text and literature, such as the relationship between image and text or literature and [...]

englischIn March 1920, a referendum took place in Southern Schleswig on where the border between Germany and Denmark was to be drawn. The majority voted to remain in Germany. Prior to this decision, Northern Schleswig had decided to remain in Denmark. This decision, which was decreed in the Treaty [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

englischThe idea of progress became increasingly relevant during the 19th century, eventually instigating a paradigm shift. This transformation facilitated not only the emergence of numerous philosophical and literary trends, but also engendered new perspectives in music theory. The composer Franz [...]

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 [...]

englischLiterary depictions of poverty have led to controversial discussions about the poetological, political and social aspects of representation. By focusing on narrated spaces and places in contemporary novels by Rafael Chirbes, Marlene Streeruwitz and Marie NDiaye, this monograph analyses the [...]

englischClear conceptual sharpness—distinctness: that is the strength of language. Where the clearly defining mind reaches its limits, conceptual confusion and poetic potential arise. To make such ideas nevertheless semiotically graspable and aesthetically usable, an indistinct medium is needed. [...]

englischDepressive (anti-)heroes populate the current French literary landscape to a significant extent. In this study, such characters are located philologically, and paradigmatic texts by Philippe Labro, Antoine Sénanque, Philippe Delerm, Édouard Levé, Michel Houellebecq and Thierry Beinstingel [...]

englischNiklas Holzberg, a professor of Classics at the University of Munich until his retirement in 2011, offers a collection of lectures he held over a period of eleven years (2008–2019) in various parts of Germany, both at schools where Latin is taught and as part of advanced training programmes [...]

englischToo many and overly plentiful meals create physical suffering. That is the message of an unusual allegorical tale of the 15th and 16th centuries about the scheming of a personified banquet for the life and limb of his guests, for which he pays with his life in the end. The material comes [...]

englischMozart's String Quintet in D major, KV 593, in the reception of a French filmmaker (Éric Rohmer) and a Russian private scholar of the 19th century (Alexander Oulibicheff); Mozart's piano concertos as model questioning of intertextuality; Friedrich Gulda's idiosyncratic Mozart [...]

englischIn this book, the author examines literature that portrays accidents, an aesthetic genre whose notable examples extend beyond texts by famous authors like Franz Kafka and Robert Musil. Technical disasters have provoked the collective imagination since the 19th century because of the new [...]