Säkularisierung erzählen

Over the past 20 years, the concept of ›secularisation‹ has lost its plausibility for European self-interpretation. Literary studies provides a new perspective on this concept during its current crisis, examining secularisation not as a historical process, but as a narrative structure, that is, a culturally established interpretative framework into which individual and collective experiences can be poured and arranged into convincing narration. This book is the first to test this new perspective by examining concrete texts from Scandinavian literature around 1900: which rationales do literary texts strive for in the phase of establishing their narrative structure in order to make it convincing or to make alternatives plausible?

With contributions by
Krzystof Bak | Frederike Felcht | Joachim Grage | Angelika Gröger | Annegret Heitmann | Dirk Johannsen | Markus Kleinert | Unni Langås | Dörte Linke | Thomas Mohnike | Klaus Müller-Wille | Joachim Schiedermair | Franziska Schlichtkrull