Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft
Die Reihe bietet substanzielle Einzeldarstellungen zu Grundthemen und zentralen Fragestellungen der Literaturwissenschaft. Dabei erhebt sie den Anspruch, für fortgeschrittene Studierende wissenschaftliche Zugänge zum jeweiligen Thema zu erschließen. Gleichzeitig soll sie Forscherinnen und Forschern mit speziellen Interessen als wichtige Anlaufstelle dienen, die den aktuellen Stand der Forschung auf hohem Niveau kartiert und somit eine solide Basis für weitere Arbeiten im betreffenden Forschungsfeld bereitstellt.
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Fictionality is a much-debated concept in literary studies, and it also plays a part in many other societal situations. This Handbook begins by reviewing the phenomena of fictionality from the perspective of literary studies and goes on to sound out the significance of fictionality in other contexts. It is addressed to a broad professional audience in literary studies and other disciplines.
This handbook offers a broad overview of characteristic adaptation processes within and between media, and current academic issues in the theoretical understanding of adaptation. It describes the concepts, practices, and forms of adaptation and their role as cultural phenomena while also examining concepts of adaptation from other disciplines of relevance to literary studies.
What makes a text poetic? Can we identify characteristics and practices that distinguish poetic texts from others? This handbook offers an overview of the history of poetics and of systematic studies of poeticism, and discusses a selection of author poetics. The paradigmatic focus on poeticism is also applied to broader areas of cultural studies.
This volume deals with the central issues of literary didactics and addresses important topics and concepts. Unlike other pertinent monographies and edited volumes, it aims to provide an introduction to the issues of literary didactics across philological disciplines. It starts by tracing selected historic developments, looking both at the history of classical literary tuition, and English and German literary didactics. The central questions take up fields of literary didactic activity and use selected examples to outline objects of literary inquiry and literary concepts. Ultimately, the volume uses its focus on interdisciplinary concepts and larger-scale discourses to carry out a classification within a larger frame of reference.
The volume combines historical and systematic aspects of world literature under consideration of recent approaches in literary studies, cultural studies, and media science. It discusses global knowledge and material, medial, and aesthetic dimensions, illustrating their variable historical and cultural criteria according to world regions. The interdisciplinary role of world literature is discussed in the context of the digital humanities.
This handbook offers a systematic historical presentation of the phenomenon of narrative and its research. In addition to covering basic terminology and issues in literary and intermedial narrative, the volume also serves as an introduction to transdisciplinary aspects of narrative in legal studies, medicine, and business.
This handbook offers a systematic historical presentation of drama from the perspectives of literary and theater studies. In addition to discussing dramatists, institutions, and contexts (politics, economy, psychology, etc.), it covers post-dramatic and non-European forms of drama (in Japan, China, Africa, South America, and India). It also presents drama’s transdisciplinary connections to film, TV series, new media, musical theater, and dance.
The myriad institutions for the production and promotion, reception and education, and distribution and storage of literature have not yet been examined in their complex entirety. This volume provides the first such examination and systematization of literary institutions from early "high" cultures to the present day, exploring the diverse ways in which they interact with each other and tracing the effect they have on literature in case studies. In doing so, it systematically reflects upon both guiding concepts and different research perspectives.
This volume will make it possible to carry out further research on institutional areas and specific organizations by building upon the outlines introduced here or viewing them from a differentiated perspective.
This volume brings together for the first time recent scholarship on reading, exploring its connections to theoretical, historical, societal, and cultural issues while also considering basic questions in literary studies from an inter-philological perspective. The essays go beyond mere surveys to offer insight about new research and the development of future research questions.
As a category in literature, "form" is a crucial source of conflict and insight. It is both a vehicle for literature’s "self-justification" (Selbstbegründung) and a focal point in associated discourse. This handbook unpacks the issue of "form" while shedding light on scholarly debates in their historic and systematic breadth. In doing so, it also considers discussion about form outside of literary studies.
Plagiarism scandals and debates about the rights of use for online publications have drawn attention to the problems associated with the concept of authorship. In literary studies, there have long been disputes about whether the category of the author can be done away with, if it might even be time to proclaim the "death of the author," or whether the author is currently returning as a guide for the literary canon of values.
