Literature and Culture in Middle and Eastern Europe
Editor: Prof. Dr. Reinhard Ibler
ISSN 2195-1497
This series was founded to give a platform for the contemporary research into Literature and Culture of Middle and Eastern Europe. Master’s theses and comparable Qualification works are deliberately placed next to dissertations, habilitation theses, monographs and subject-oriented collection because their innovative ideas are too often kept from the scientific public. The profile of the series is geographical rather than philological, just to do all of the connections that can be found in East-Middle, Southeastern, and Eastern literature as well as in the literature of German speaking areas, justice. The visualization of these manifold contact points, overlaps, and influences is one of the core impulses for the publication of this series, generally and individually.
Even though the series thrives on its variety of content and methods, there are some central subjects presented, too: I.e. the literary and cultural processing of the Holocaust, a focus born out of the successful Gießen project on comparative research of this important and productive issue, using Polish, Czech, Slovakian, and German material. Further, defining subjects are the discourse on modernity and avant-garde, questions of genre typology and history, as well as interdisciplinary aspects of aesthetics and literary and cultural theory, as far as it is grounded in Middle and Eastern European intellectual tradition. Anyone who is interested in contributing with innovative and interesting projects is cordially invited to do so.
The editor:
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Ibler is Chair of Slavic Philology, focusing on Russian, Czech, and Polish Literary Research and Theory at the Justus-Liebig-University Gießen. He has dealt, among other things, with questions concerning literary cyclization, typology and development of selected genres (e.g. comedy, elegy, sonnet) and literary-artistic communication. At present, Prof. Dr. Ibler is the head of the research group for Holocaust Literature and Culture in Middle and Eastern Europe. Further, he has several projects on the History of Ballads and on the Topicality of functionalist designs in Literary and Cultural research. For further information, visit www.uni-giessen.de.
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Magda Dolinska-Rydzek
The Antichrist in Post-Soviet Russia: Transformations of an Ideomyth
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Julia Spanberger
Grenzen und Grenzerfahrungen in den Texten Viktor Pelevins
Eine Analyse seiner frühen Prosa
€24.90ibidem124 PagesViktor Pelevins Name erscheint seit den späten 1990er-Jahren kontinuierlich auf der Liste der bedeutendsten russischen Autoren der Gegenwart. Obwohl sein mittlerweile umfangreiches Werk zurecht die Beliebtheit...Available -
Sarka Sladovnikova
The Holocaust in Czechoslovak and Czech Feature Films
€29.90ibidem180 PagesŠárka Sladovníková analyzes the depiction of the Holocaust in Czechoslovak and Czech Feature Films and the relevant literary pretexts. While she charts the social and cultural framework in which the...Available -
Aleksandra Konarzewska, Monika Glosowitz, Magdalena Baran-Szoltys
Imagined Geographies
Central European Spatial Narratives between 1984 and 2014
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Adam Jarosz
Der Spiegel und die Spiegelungen
Über Geschlecht und Seele im Werk von Stanislaw Przybyszewski
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Alexander Lell
Studien zum erzählerischen Schaffen Vsevolod M. Garšins
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Reinhard Ibler
The Holocaust in the Central European Literatures and Cultures
Problems of Poetization and Aestheticization
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Julia Katharina Friedmann
Von der Gorbimanie zur Putinphobie?
Ursachen und Folgen medialer Politisierung
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