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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Marie Brunova
Die faktualen und fiktionalen Texte Jiri Weils
€39.90ibidem452 PagesMit dem vorliegenden Band legt Marie Brunová die Ergebnisse langjähriger Recherche und Forschung zu Leben und Werk von Jiří Weil (1900–1959) vor. Der kommunistisch orientierte Schriftsteller jüdischer...Available -
Dora Komnenovic
Reading between the Lines: Reflections on Discarded Books and Sociopolitical Transformations in (Post-)Yugoslavia
€34.90ibidem208 PagesEvery major socio-political change starts with some discarding. Suffice it to think about the heaps of rubbish consisting of old furniture, cars, busts of famous communist leaders, badges, and books on...Available -
Martina Napolitano
Sasha Sokolov: The Life and Work of the Russian “Proet”
€24.90ibidem162 PagesMartina Napolitano explores the poetics of one of the most significant Russian authors of the 20th century. Sasha Sokolov’s oeuvre represents a milestone in the development of Russian literature; his...Available -
Astrid Shchekina-Greipel
Deutsch-sowjetischer Kulturtransfer unter totalitären Bedingungen
Heinrich Böll und Günter Grass in der Sowjetunion (1953–1985)
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Reinhard Ibler, Andreas Ohme
Holocaustliteratur: Überlegungen zu Reichweite und Grenzen eines literaturwissenschaftlichen Konzepts
Materialien des gleichnamigen Panels beim 12. Deutschen Slavistentag 2015 in Gießen
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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
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Sarka Sladovnikova
The Holocaust in Czechoslovak and Czech Feature Films
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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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