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 [...]

englischHistorical narrative was one of the most prominent narrative forms in the 19th century. But it was always also future-oriented. In this volume, this flipside of addressing the past is examined from a historical and systematic perspective using the following guiding questions: How can [...]

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 [...]