German Studies

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 ...

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. ...

This collection shows that while literary centers do exist in what Pascale Casanova calls “the international literary space”, their power does not operate unilaterally.

What is a cultural error? What causes it? What are the consequences of such an error? This volume enables the reader to identify cultural errors and to understand how they are produced. Sometimes they come about because of the gap between the source culture and the target culture, on other ...

In the first chapter on the German military’s unlikely function as an incubator of modernist art and in the second chapter on Adolf Hitler’s advocacy for “eugenic” figurative representation embodying nostalgia for lost Aryan racial perfection and the aspiration for the future perfection ...

Jarosz betrachtet in diesem Buch das gesamte Werk Przybyszewskis, von seinem frühen erzählerischen Schaffen über die Kurzprosa bis zu seinen Romanen und Dramen.

Der öffentliche Raum wurde in der Linguistik lange als ein Kontextfaktor („Öffentlichkeit“) betrachtet, der zu einer binären pragmatischen Charakterisierung von Kommunikaten beiträgt. Im Zuge der Linguistic Landscape-Forschung wird der öffentliche Raum jedoch als zentrale ...

Johanna Emeney examines the global proliferation of new poetry related to illness and medical treatment from the perspective of doctors, patients, and carers.

Woher kommt die deutsche Sprache? Was ist das präindoeuropäische Substrat? Und was haben die Indoeuropäer mit der heutigen deutschen Sprache zu tun? Wie kommt es, dass unsere Sprache so reich an Entlehnungen ist? Tomaso Mattarucco gibt klare, verständliche, auf die essenziellen Fakten ...

This collection of new essays brings together scholarly examinations of a writer who—despite the prestige that the Nobel Prize has earned him—remains controversial with respect to his place in the literary tradition of his home country. This is in part because the positioning of Turkey ...

Fachübergreifender Unterricht und Teamarbeit gehören zu den didaktischen Schlagwörtern der letzten Jahre. Dieser Band gibt dazu vielfältige Impulse.

Lell untersucht die geistig-moralische Dimension der psychologischen Kurzprosa von Vsevolod Michajlovič Garšin (1855-1888).

This volume addresses a problem of high controversy: Relating the Holocaust to poetic and aesthetic phenomena.

From New National to World English Literature offers a personal perspective on the evolution of a major cultural movement that began with decolonization, continued with the assertion of African, West Indian, Commonwealth, and other literatures, and has evolved through postcolonial to world or ...