englischThis introductory book is intended for students of Scandinavian studies who are primarily interested in modern Scandinavian literary studies. It combines a thorough theory-based and problem-oriented overview of the most important methods currently used in literary, media and cultural studies [...]

englischThe book offers a new perspective on Hölderlin's oeuvre. Previous interpretations understand the anger in his work in a metaphorical sense as enthusiasm or demonic possession. Hölderlin's poetry of anger, however, speaks of a deeply human emotion. He wants to express this anger. It runs [...]

englischThis edited study is the first book in a new series of publications which aims to revise the wide spectrum of what are now regarded as comics (including caricatures, cartoons, graphic novels, etc.), broadening the view of Comics Studies, not only retrospectively but also prospectively at a [...]

englischWe encounter tricksters’ grins in myths, legends and other fictional or historical narratives. They populate liminal spaces and thus do not only transgress binary boundaries. As confusion and provocation of the familiar, tricksters enable us to pause for a moment, and they offer new [...]

englisch‘The Taste of Freedom’ examines the connection between aesthetics and politics in Kant and various theories based on his ideas (Arendt, Rancière, Rorty, etc.). Using the idea of political unconsciousness, this book also addresses literary texts from Hölderlin to Proust, Nabokov and Wallace. [...]

englischThis book contains the papers on Aeschylus (centring above all on the Oresteia) presented at the AICC international conference held in Trento on 4th May 2023. The congress was conceived in honour of Vittorio Citti (for his ninetieth birthday), the initiator and promoter of a vast project of [...]

englischThe articles in this book address the issues of migration, linguistic pluricentricity and linguistic accommodation from different but also complementary angles. They all focus on Spanish, although the contexts of the studies include settings within and outside the Spanish-speaking world. The [...]

englischIs it music? Is it literature? Music–literature hybrids are both and yet neither at the same time—and they are blind spots in previous studies on 'music and literature'. Their specificity becomes clear in the production and reception of various 20th century works that can be classed as [...]

englisch‘Hofmannsthal – Jahrbuch zur europäischen Moderne’ has been published since 1993 and is considered the most important organ of Hofmannsthal research. It places the works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929) in the aesthetic and socio-historical context of European modernist culture and, in [...]

englischThe politics, culture and people of Northern Europe have had a decisive influence on the history of pan-European encounters for millennia, a fact that is insufficiently reflected in scholarly attention. This handbook draws attention to these shortcomings and is the first work to [...]

englischThe study ‘›Haltung‹ und Realismus. Zur Theorie poetischer Verallgemeinerung’ investigates the political implications of the concept of form in the context of the (post-)Marxist debate on literary realism between Georg Lukács, Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno and Alexander [...]

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 [...]

englischWith around 3000 watercolours and drawings, Hermann Hesse did not only leave behind his literary work but also an extensive visual oeuvre, which is comprehensively analysed in this study and put into a biographical, contemporary and art history context. Unlike literary studies’ previous [...]

englischHow can Nazi camp experiences be communicated and analysed? For Primo Levi, who was imprisoned in Auschwitz, ›a new language‹ had to be invented as the experiences were too indescribable and unimaginable. Does this pessimism also apply to videotaped oral history interviews? This linguistic [...]

englischWilhelm Scherer (26.4.1841–6.8.1886) is the most important and effective linguist and especially literary scholar of his time and far beyond. He can be considered the reformer of German studies and was also a brilliant essayist and feuilletonist. His intellectuality is marked by the [...]

englischFestivals and games are important cultural and social factors in Greek-Roman antiquity that are often not considered in the classroom. This volume, which contains the lectures held at the 30th Summer Academy of the Ministry of Education of the State of Baden-Württemberg, illuminates the [...]

englischThe paradigm of disturbance is a powerful and, to date, unexplored mode of literary modernism. Through individual analyses of selected German-language prose from the Romantic period to the present (Tieck, Droste-Hülshoff, Büchner, Kafka, Aichinger, Kracht, and others), this study examines [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

englischContemporary culture is characterised by a peculiar desire for crime narratives. Novels, non-fiction books, films, TV series or podcasts that deal with real or fictional murders, acts of fraud or spectacular thefts attract a wide audience and often become the object of public fascination. [...]

englischIn literary texts of the early 20th century, human hands seem to become increasingly problematic. This study traces literary depictions of ›unruly hands‹ in the context of developments in the history of the media, technology and knowledge. Against the backdrop of circulating interests in [...]

englischThe reception of E. T. A. Hoffmann as a representative of Dark Romanticism is firmly established in popular cultural institutions: This is particularly evident in contemporary productions of the opera »Les Contes d’Hoffmann« by Jacques Offenbach and Jules Barbier. In this study, the often [...]

englischSecrecy is a notion that is central to many different cultures, although it can mean different things and operate differently in those different cultural contexts. In a German context, Friedrich Nietzsche believed the secret was the foundation of culture, while Georg Simmel concluded secrecy [...]

englischWith the ‘Lebens-Ansichten des Katers Murr nebst fragmentarischer Biographie des Kapellmeister Johannes Kreisler in zufälligen Makulaturblättern’ (1819/1921), E.T.A. Hoffmann, the author, composer, illustrator and legal scholar, created a piece of writing that can be considered one of the [...]

englischGarbage has completely different semantics in a museum showcase than in a forest or a landfill site. Likewise, the proximity of figures to garbage has an essential social and aesthetic impact on them. Therefore, this study focuses on the spatial and figurative effects that are always [...]

englischSince 1950, the consequences of increasing the human impact on the Earth have become more and more evident, forcing literature to confront potential future catastrophes. Nowhere else is the catastrophic future of the ›Age of Humans‹, the so-called Anthropocene, imagined and narrated as [...]

englischUnder the impact of the First World War, waiting had replaced fighting in an emphatic sense, had become a generational experience both in the field and at home, and had been transformed into a form of heroism involving perseverance and endurance. The accent had shifted away from heroism as [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

englischThere is often amazement at how a culture that seems familiar can upend our expectations. This volume offers 18 studies on characteristic peculiarities of Rome. A first group is devoted to the concept of text and literature, such as the relationship between image and text or literature and [...]

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 [...]

englischThis 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 [...]

englischFascinating and enigmatic to this day: The Accurata Utopiae Tabula, an anonymous map of Cockaigne accompanied by an explanatory book (thought to be by Schnebelin), inspired the likes of Leibniz and was a popular supplement to atlases around 1700. Extensively embellished with euonyms for its [...]

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 [...]

englischNiklas 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 [...]

englischDe 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 [...]

englischThis 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 [...]

englischAnyone 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 [...]