Nie war der menschliche Einfluss auf unsere Umwelt größer und die negative Veränderung der Natur gegenwärtiger als in der heutigen Zeit. Auf diese Entwicklungen reagieren die umwelttheoretischen Ansätze der letzten Jahrzehnte, die auch von der Literaturwissenschaft eine Stellungnahme fordern. Die [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

englischSince ancient times, the melancholy of thinkers, writers and artists has been declared as both a thorn in their side and a source of their creative inspiration. This book reveals that, in his works, Hugo von Hofmannsthal draws on representations and evaluations of this phenomenon, which stem [...]

englischThe bilingual oeuvre of Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen contains many traces of inescapable connections and distant reverberations from the entire world: relations to far-off places, figures of mobility and foreignness; a ‘global mix’ of literary forms; innumerable references to intertextual works [...]