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W. G. Sebald, one of the most prominent German-speaking authors of the late 20th century, has been discussed in German literary studies again and agai…
In Germany, beginning in the 1960s, a major population shift took place. The reason for it was the German guest worker program. Due to the German 'eco…
In his new book Autopoiesis and Literature: The Short History of an Endless Process (Autopoiesis und Literatur: Die kurze Geschichte eines endlosen Ve…
The relationship between humans and apes has been discussed for centuries. That discussion took a new turn with the publication and reception of Darwi…
In his new book Theater of the Maimed: Fictional Characters between Deformation und Destruction in Theatrical Works of the Twentieth and early Twenty-…
In his new book, Wissen um Stimmung (Knowledge of Mood), Sergej Rickenbacher, a post-doc at the University of Aachen, examines two works of Robert Mus…
In her new book, Autodidacticism, Artistry, Media Practice (Autodidaktik, Artistik, Medienpraktik [Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2016]), Julia Kerscher, p…
In her new book Der bewegende Blick: Literarische Blickinszenierungen der Moderne (Rombach Verlag, 2014)---The Moving View: The Gaze in the Modern Ger…
Lena Wetenkamp's Europe Narrated, Contextualized and Remembered: The Discourse of 'Europe' in Contemporary German Literature (Europa erzhalt, verortet…
In her new book Longing for the Good. The Relationship between Literature and Ethics in the Work of Peter Handke (Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2017), Tanja An…
In his new book Morality and Literature: A Historical Typology (Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2013)---in German: Moral und Literatur. Eine historische Typologi…
In his new book Thieves: Stealing in Literature, Philosophy, and Myth (Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2016)---in German: Diebe: Die heimliche Aneignung als Ursp…