englischThis book focuses on interpreting three poems from different creative periods in Eduard Mörike’s life: Sehnsucht (Longing), Bildniß der Geliebten (The Portrait of the Beloved) and Erinna an Sappho (Erinna to Sappho). His adaptations of ancient pagan and biblical texts, which have been [...]

englischAround 1900, landscape experienced a boom in a variety of cultural discourses. But what part did landscape play for literature of that period? In this study, Agnes Hoffmann reconstructs its relevance for literary modernism, focusing on the prose work of Henry James and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. [...]

Die in diesem Buch skizzierte Theorie der Literatur setzt bei einem gewissen Unbehagen an der Literaturwissenschaft der Gegenwart an: Kulturwissenschaftliche Ansprüche der Allzuständigkeit bringen sie um ihr disziplinäres Profil, und eine Proliferation von Theorien, deren Zusammenhang nicht zu [...]

englischThis two-volume monograph entitled “Maskenspiel und Seelensprache” (Masquerade and the Language of the Soul) addresses the tension between Robert Schumann’s aesthetics of music and Heinrich Heine’s post-Romantic aesthetics of poetry. In volume 1, Ingo Müller examines both the relationship [...]

englischThis two-volume monograph entitled “Maskenspiel und Seelensprache” (Masquerade and the Language of the Soul) addresses the tension between Robert Schumann’s aesthetics of music and Heinrich Heine’s post-Romantic aesthetics of poetry. In volume 1, Ingo Müller examines both the relationship [...]

englischScenic representations in the arts and cultural practices create countless forms of contact. Not only are film, theatre, opera, performance and exhibitions forms of expression that evoke tactile and emotional responses, that is, that allow us to touch or that touch us in some way, but so are [...]