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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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englischThese fifteen papers, published between 1987 and 2022, discuss the following themes: criticism of classicistic translations of Homer and Ovid; the history of the reception of Virgil, Horace and Lucian in literature and Classics; selected humanists and their study of ancient authors in the [...]
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englischThe fascination of the royal game has always occupied the arts and science, resulting in compositions, paintings, stage works, etc. In addition, the explosive development of artificial intelligence (AI) has given chess a new dimension and importance, even as a model for scientific theories. [...]
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englischIn Homer’s Iliad, the main character, Achilles, twice takes a course of action that upends decisions which he himself had previously proclaimed to be irrevocable. Achilles had refused to battle on the side of the Greeks – and then rejoins the fight as their ally. He had announced several [...]
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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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englischThe chorus is situated within the friction between individuality and collectivity, or, to quote Nietzsche, between Apollo and Dionysus. A close look at choruses in dramas of the 20th and 21st centuries reveals this relationship. How does a chorus act as a group? And what happens to this [...]
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englischThe chorus is situated within the friction between individuality and collectivity, or, to quote Nietzsche, between Apollo and Dionysus. A close look at choruses in dramas of the 20th and 21st centuries reveals this relationship. How does a chorus act as a group? And what happens to this [...]
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englischIn this book, Timo Sestu examines literary artefacts of the European neo-avant-garde from the 1950s to the 1970s that originated as a result of the interaction between man and machine. These machines are both computers and technical apparatuses, but also book structures and forms of poetic [...]
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