German Studies

Der Band zeigt die jahrhundertelangen literarischen Verflechtungen zwischen Ukraine und deutschsprachigem Raum, beleuchtet bislang unerforschte Bereiche dieser Beziehung und bietet einen kompakten, analytischen Einblick in die ukrainische Literaturgesc

Aufklärung, Kunst, moderne Wissenschaft. Das Mit- und Gegeneinander verkörpert sich in Leben und Werk der beiden Brüder Georg und Ludwig. Daraus macht Jenner eine exemplarische Monografie – und bietet zugleich eine neue Sicht auf Glauben und Wissen.

Berndt Herrmann entdeckt bei Thomas Mann eine Modernität des politischen Denkens.

The volume challenges established ideas of world literature by rethinking the concept along the notion of “entanglements”.

This volume offers a selection of critical essays on texts that can be broadly categorized as popular literature. The essays are inclined to question the idea of ‘the Canon’ and re-consider the divide between the canonical and the popular. As such, besides engaging in a serious critical reading...

Globalization is not a new phenomenon. Ideas have been circulating all over Europe (and the world) since ancient times, and intercultural dialog is a wide field offering a great variety of approaches. In such times as ours, when the world is swift to change and cultures are destined to meet...

Es wird hinterfragt, wo Funktionalität und Sinnhaftigkeit einer Genozid-Begrifflichkeit zu verorten sind.

Gregory Maertz has written extensively on Romantic and Modern literature, art, and ideas. In these nine related essays, he investigates the expression of Romanticism in literature, philosophy, and cultural politics from the Renaissance to Modernism. The comparative essays in Part One examine the...

In this volume, twelve acclaimed writers are interviewed about their political, thematic, and personal concerns, their working methods and the publishing scene.

This book provides a new understanding of fictocriticism—a genre stemming from metafiction, écriture feminine, and postmodernism—via original creative and experimental writing devoted to the issue of the contemporary self, offering a reinvigoration of fictocriticism as a writing strategy....