englischIn the early modern period, authors drew extensively on ancient forms and models to introduce their readership to new insights into nature. The twelve contributions in this anthology are the first to address this finding, which is surprising from today’s perspective. They examine a wide [...]

englischHölderlin’s reflections on form can be grasped with the concept of the ›principle of form‹, which transforms a fragment into a productive concept with reference to the ›logic of being produced‹ (Adorno). The tragic fragment, as a principle of form, divides tragedy and the tragic. In order to [...]

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 [...]

englischWhy is Dante’s Divine Comedy, summa of the Middle Ages and a Catholic–Christian epic of salvation, still relevant in a literary system that sees itself as completely secularised? This study shows how the authors of late German realism focus on the fragmentary appropriation of Dante’s work [...]

englischRaue Rhythmen is the first study to present Hölderlin’s Nachtgesänge, the last of the texts he published during his lifetime, as a coherent cycle. The concept of rhythm makes it possible to trace Hölderlin’s historical signature on the path of modernity and to emphasise the special position [...]

englischAfter WWII, a crisis of narrative worlds emerged in German and French literature. Narrative fiction, the main genre of world-making, created dissolving story worlds, which was a reaction to the critical and scientific attention being paid to the topic of ‘Neuzeit’ (modern history) after [...]