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 [...]
more informationenglischThis 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 [...]
more informationenglischNiklas Holzberg, who until his retirement in 2011 was a professor of Classics at the University of Munich, offers a collection of twenty-three papers on Roman poetry of the Augustan age and the early imperial era. Published between 1997 and 2019 in periodicals and anthologies, fifteen of [...]
more informationenglischNiklas Holzberg, who until his retirement in 2011 was a professor of Classics at the University of Munich, offers a collection of twenty-three papers on Roman poetry of the Augustan age and the early imperial era. Published between 1997 and 2019 in periodicals and anthologies, fifteen of [...]
more informationenglischDe 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 [...]
more informationenglischLanguage 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 [...]
more informationenglischDe 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 [...]
more informationenglischThis 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 [...]
more informationenglischAnyone who reads is automatically directly involved in a world of encounters with words and texts. Literary studies endeavours to make this world accessible, which consists of posing questions and offering answers to them and of setting tasks and providing solutions to them in the field of [...]
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