englischThis book contains the papers on the topic of »Women and the Image of Women in Antiquity« which were presented at the summer academy organised by the Ministry of Culture for Baden-Württemberg. These contributions examine the aforementioned subject from literary studies, historical, [...]

englischThe bilingual oeuvre of Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen contains many traces of inescapable connections and distant reverberations from the entire world: relations to far-off places, figures of mobility and foreignness; a ‘global mix’ of literary forms; innumerable references to intertextual works [...]

englischThis book examines the discernibleness of manipulation and falsification of information in both classical antiquity and research on that period in history. The seven contributions the book contains offer new perspectives on questions and problems relating to various literary genres and [...]

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 [...]

englischMaking mistakes is not only part of humans’ basic anthropological make-up and the driving force behind the philosophical search for truth, but it is also a significant element in literary framing and design, either as a necessary dramaturgical flaw (hamartia), as an event that causes [...]

englischThis volume focuses on quotations from dramatic works, both tragedies and comedies, in Strabo’s ‘Geography’. It presents a comprehensive catalogue of these citations and an analysis of their features and possible related textual and content-based issues; it explores Strabo’s role in the [...]