Studying Heine's approach to myth and mythology can help to further ongoing discussion of the problem 'myth and modernity'. Heine's concern is with the view of the world describable as 'mythic…

This is a study of Paul Celan's reception of Russian literature, with special reference to works of major poetological significance for him. The term Begegnung (encounter), so central to his…

The first part of the book presents a systematically reasoned typology of the various forms of narrative self-reflection. The second section draws on this typology for a discussion of the various…

Looking by turns at the history of concepts, knowledge and scholarly practice in the 18th century, the study traces the changes undergone in the course of the first half of that period by ideas…

The study looks at 18th century music theatre in German (as an early form of mass-media culture) specifically in terms of the way it interrelates with the development of a modern form of…

In the aftermath of Winckelmann and Mengs, the late Enlightenment thinker and classicist Fernow (1763-1808) set out to determine the autonomy of art on the basis of the intrinsic value of its…

The study identifies metamorphosis as a form of poetic contemplation in which literary imagination divides the flow of time into graphic timepoints. Whereas the concept of ongoing metamorphosis…

For a long time Moses Mendelssohn's (1729-1786) »Jerusalem« was one of the neglected works of the German Enlightenment period. Only in recent years has it started to be given the critical…

This study investigates the negotiation process involved in the definition of the latitude and license permissible in 'satirical' writing over a period of more than 200 years. Literature and…

The 'key principle' as a complementary procedure to cryptographic writing and deciphering reading is demonstrated here with reference to various narrative texts, beginning with the courtly…

In the 1980s the sublime was rediscovered in the context of the debates on postmodernism. The emphasis here was on the theories of Burke and Kant, which contrasted beauty and sublimity. Little…

Modernity as a literary 'event' is in fact the result of a long and arduous process marked by critical and poetological disputes and decisively shaping the literary landscape in German-speaking…

In the late 18th century, aesthetic and political discourses were indissolubly interlinked. The aesthetic philosophies and literary fictions of authors like Karl Philipp Moritz, Salomon Maimon,…

The study describes the conceptual and metaphorical field relating to what figures in the Enlightenment as the sense of touch/feeling. In so doing it homes in on a phenomenon whose operative and…

The aim of this publication is twofold: editorial and text-historical. It contains a new edition of the 'Frankfurt Dirigierrolle' based on a diplomatic print documenting the successive stages of…

The commentary is a companion to Volume 1 of the new edition of the »Hessische Passionsspielgruppe«. While that edition of the text itself did pioneering work in documenting for the first time…

The book is a study of Johann Friedrich Oberlin's report 'Herr L...' (1778), an account of Storm and Stress poet Jakob M. R. Lenz' sojourn in Steintal/Alsace. The account has a dual relevance…

The Altdeutsche Textbibliothek [Old German Text Library] is the series of editions of German medieval texts with the richest history. Foundedin 1881 by Hermann Paul, it has been edited by leading…

Hartmann von Aue's »Erec« is the first Arthurian romance in German and a central work of classical Middle High German literature. The present edition provides a thoroughly revised…

The Altdeutsche Textbibliothek [Old German Text Library] is the series of editions of German medieval texts with the richest history. Foundedin 1881 by Hermann Paul, it has been edited by leading…

»Daniel«, which is counted among the earliest of the so-called post-classical Arthurian romances, was composed during the period 1210 to 1225 and is considered the first freely…

This Middle High German text tells the story of positive and negative knightly deeds from the Trojan Wars to the 'present' (around 1200). In the story the exemplary character of the Christian…

The growing research interest in the »Nibelungenlied« and problems of heroic literature in general has also led to heightened interest in »Kudrun«. The verse epic is much…

This »Notker latinus« or commentary volume for the ten shorter works comprises not only the primary sources but also parallel passages in other texts and interactions with Notker's writings in…