englischOver the past 20 years, the concept of ›secularisation‹ has lost its plausibility for European self-interpretation. Literary studies provide a new perspective on this concept during its current crisis, examining secularisation not as a historical process, but as a narrative structure, that [...]

englischUpon being diagnosed with a brain tumor, Wolfgang Herrndorf started his blog ‘Arbeit und Struktur’ (Work and Structure) in 2010, which was posthumously published in the form of a book. The blog relays a self-narrative in which he reflects on the challenges of his illness, consequently [...]

englischThis study is the first to comprehensively address the metapoetry of the Büchner Prize winner Ernst Meister in terms of its development and the richness of its facets. In his poetry, to what extent does the poet and thinker reflect on the process of its creation and its perception? Which [...]

englischThis book demonstrates that poetics around 1900 employs the Romantic concept of music in order to develop techniques with which to represent the ineffable. It investigates the foundations of the Romantic notion in poetics research that the ineffable comes to the fore in musical arrangements [...]

englischPossibility thinking and experimentation in literature have a long tradition—yet their current significance in literary studies research on the relationship between experimentation and literature has been discussed only hesitantly to date. By means of a comparison of different concepts of [...]