Books

The ZfL publishes research results from its projects in a variety of book formats, primarily as monographs, in the form of anthologies, or as supplements or special issues of scholarly journals. They appear in the ZfL’s series (“Literatur- und Kulturforschung” at Wallstein, “LiteraturForschung” at Kulturverlag Kadmos, until 2017 “Trajekte” at Fink) as well as with other publishers such as Fischer, Suhrkamp, and de Gruyter.

Oliver Precht (ed./eds.)

Maurice Merleau-Ponty als politischer Philosoph
Focus topic of the Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie

Vol. 73, Issue 5
De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston 2025, 75 pages
ISSN 0012-1045; eISSN: 2192-1482
Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles (ed./eds.)

The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era

CAPONEU Working Papers
2025
Magazine cover of Histoire sociale / Social History showing a passenger ship sinking in the ocean under a pale blue sky.
Nebiha Guiga, Henning Trüper, Aurélien Portelli (ed./eds.)

Social Imaginaries of Emergency Situations at Sea since 1800
Histoire social/Social History

Vol. 58, Issue 119
University of Toronto Press, Toronto 2025, 244 pages
ISSN 0018-2257 (Print); 1918-6576 (Online)
Cover of the James Baldwin Review, Volume 11, Number 1 (2025), featuring an image of James Baldwin’s historical U.S. passport.
Remo Verdickt, Pieter Vermeulen, Gianna Zocco (ed./eds.)

European Baldwins
James Baldwin Review

Vol. 11, Issue 1
Manchester University Press, Manchester 2025, 305 pages
ISSN 2056-9203 (Print), 2056-9211 (Online)
Cover of the Russian translation of Franziska Thun-Hohenstein's Shalamov biography with a portrait of the Soviet author.
Franziska Thun-Hohenstein
translated by Marina Koreneva

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Варлам Шаламов. Биография и поэтика

Издательство Ивана Лимбаха, Sankt Petersburg 2025, 536 pages
ISBN 978-5-89059-565-2
Ivana Perica

Politics, Literature and Tertium Datur
Socialist Central Europe, 1928–1968

Bloomsbury Publishing, London 2025, 304 pages
ISBN 979-8-76512-392-8 (Print); 979-8-76512-390-4 (PDF); 979-8-76512-393-5 (epub & Mobi)
Book cover of Aurore Peyroles: Voyages au bout de la banlieue. In the center is a painting of a steamer sinking in front of a bridge.
Aurore Peyroles

Voyages au bout de la banlieue
Représentations romanesques de la banlieue parisienne (1820–1950)

Mimesis. Romanische Literaturen der Welt Bd. 127
De Gruyter, Berlin 2025, 343 pages
ISBN 978-3-111-56256-8 (Print); 9-783-111-56258-2 (eBook)
Cover of Lisa Schreiber's book “Measuring feelings.” A black and white image of a smiling man with a yellow grid of lines projected onto his face is set against a pink background.
Lisa Schreiber

Gefühle Vermessen
Zur Genealogie des Affective Computing

meson press, Lüneburg 2025, 196 pages
ISBN 978-3-95796-228-7 (Print); 978-3-95796-229-4 (PDF)
DOI 10.14619/2287
Cover by Nebiha Guiga: “Les blessés de Napoleon”. Painting of a battlefield, in the center lies a wounded soldier with an amputated leg, with another soldier kneeling next to him.
Nebiha Guiga
with a preface by Patrice Gueniffey

Les blessés de Napoléon

Passés / Composés, Paris 2025, 400 pages
ISBN 978-2-3793-3850-2
Falko Schmieder, Lucila Svampa (ed./eds.)

Contributions to the History of Concepts

Vol. 20, Issue 1
Berghahn Journals, Oxford 2025, 154 pages
ISSN 1807-9326 (Print), 1874-656X (online)
Johanna Abel, Jenny Augustin (ed./eds.)

Präsenzgeschichten
Virtuelle Realitäten im Theater der Frühen Neuzeit

Simulatio. Theatertechniken in Literatur, Medien und Wissenschaft
J.B. Metzler, Berlin/Heidelberg 2025, 176 pages
ISBN 978-3-662-70686-2 (Print); 978-3-662-70687-9 (eBook)
Cover of Varlam Shalamov: "Tales from Kolyma. A selection" in German. Snowy landscape with a hill covered in larch trees and a light blue sky above.
Franziska Thun-Hohenstein (ed./eds.)
translated from Russian by Gabriele Leupold

Warlam Schalamow: Erzählungen aus Kolyma
Eine Auswahl

MSB Paperback vol. 68
Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2025, 270 pages
ISBN 978-3-7518-4519-9 (Print); 978-3-7518-4520-5 (EPub)