Literary Science
Literary Science
Literary studies is the heart of our publishing house. Outstanding monographs and anthologies from modern philologies such as German studies, Romance studies, Scandinavian studies and comparative literature as well as from classical philology fill our series and yearbook portfolio. Our programme in literary studies is characterised by a high degree of interdisciplinarity and intermediality and integrates linguistic, cultural and media studies perspectives.


Publication Series
Disability — Literature — Culture
Litterae
Modernity and Media
Edited by Andreas Blödorn and Stephan Brössel This series brings together contributions that focus on the literature and media culture of the 1920s in German-speaking countries and that, in particular, conduct textual analyses of social and cultural aspects in literature and theatre, photography, film and cinema, radio plays and radio, plus other forms of the media (e.g. magazines and journals). In this respect, the series focuses specifically on the intermedia and transmedia interplay and relationships between literature and the media, of which Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz is a typical example, which was transformed into a radio play and a film, projects in which the author was also involved, and epitomised by Fritz Lang’s two-part film Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler, which was produced at the same time as the novel by Norbert Jacques was published in the weekly magazine Berliner Illustrirte and which was promoted in the media with reports from the film set. In addition to addressing such interconnections between literature, culture and the media in the Weimar Republic, the series—particularly in terms of the defining medium of film—also examines international aspects of the changing media culture in the 1920s, in which the dimension of sound also accompanied the rise of the new ›visual culture‹ (Béla Balázs). With the development of talking films, an increasing number of international collaborative projects were launched, in which the film industry—as typified by Der blaue Engel, the film adaptation of Heinrich Mann’s novel Professor Unrat—experimented with so-called multilingual productions in order to break into the US market and Hollywood above all.
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Nordica
Paradeigmata
Philological Material Studies
Textures
The Changeable Knowledge of Literature
Yearbooks
Hofmannsthal – Jahrbuch zur europäischen Moderne
Edited on behalf of the Hugo von Hofmannsthal-Gesellschaft by Maximilian Bergengruen, Alexander Honold, Ursula Renner and Günter Schnitzler
This yearbook has been published since 1993 and is regarded as the most important institution in research into Hofmannsthal. On the one hand, it places the works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929) in the aesthetic and socio-historical context of modern European culture. According to the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, its publication of previously unpublished correspondence is one of its particular merits. On the other hand, contributions from renowned experts in literature, the fine arts, philosophy, psychology, politics, and in dance and theatre at the turn of the century are also collected in this yearbook.
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Limbus – Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies
Edited by Franz-Josef Deiters, Axel Fliethmann, Alison Lewis and Christiane Weller
Academic Advisory Board: Jane K. Brown, Alan Corkhill, Gerhard Fischer, Jürgen Fohrmann, Ortrud Gutjahr, Ulrike Landfester, Sara Lennox, Matías Martínez, Peter Morgan, Stefan Neuhaus, Rolf Günter Renner, David Roberts, Ritchie Robertson, Gerhard Schulz and Norbert Christian Wolf
For an academic discipline like German studies to make its mark, global networking is essential, especially in a country such as Australia, which due to its geostrategical location does not allow for proliferent German studies research in the same way that Europe does. »Limbus—The Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies« is intended to take this need into account. Its goal is to further promote Australian German studies to readers with some knowledge of this field and to provide a specifically Australian forum for international discussion on this subject area. Each annual issue focuses on a particular main topic decided on by the editors, and in no way ignores the ideas and opinions of Germanists living and working outside Australia.
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Editions
Hofmannsthal – Sources and Studies
In the first half of the 20th century, letter writing still played a significant role among all authors. This was particularly true for Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929), whose correspondence was extraordinarily extensive. It is precisely these letters and the responses they illicited which often provide deep insights into the authors’ works and their sociocultural environment. Through its volumes of important correspondence from and about Hofmannsthal, this series provides important evidence about him and the time in which he lived.
Introductions
intro: Literaturwissenschaft
The volumes in the series intro: Literaturwissenschaf provide a sound, compact and understandable introduction to both fundamental and current topics relating to a form of literary studies whose cultural studies expansion is based, for example, on the ›turns‹ of recent decades, such as the cultural turn, spatial turn, social turn, etc. The books will appeal to students of all branches of philology who would like to obtain an overview of their respective subject area, and the structured discussions, concise summaries, bibliographical references as well as questions and suggestions for further research in the volumes will facilitate students’ introduction to the subject matter.