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.

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
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)
Stefano Marchesoni, Nassima Sahraoui, Sebastian Truskolaski (ed./eds.)

Community in Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy

New Benjamin Studies Bd. 1
Brill | Fink, Paderborn 2025, 165 pages
ISBN 978-3-7705-6808-6 (Print); 978-3-8467-6808-2 (PDF)
Cover of Detlev Schöttker's book “Die Archive des Chronisten.” A stamp with Ernst Jünger's portrait is reproduced twice below the title.
Detlev Schöttker

Die Archive des Chronisten
Ernst Jüngers Werke und Korrespondenzen

Wallstein, Göttingen 2025, 336 pages
ISBN 978-3-8353-5871-3
Cover of Adam Kirsch: Siedlerkolonialismus. Black and white image of a covered wagon.
Translated from English by Christoph Hesse

Adam Kirsch: Siedlerkolonialismus
Ideologie, Gewalt und Gerechtigkeit

Edition Tiamat, Berlin 2025, 200 pages
ISBN 978-3-89320-325-3
Jenaba Samura

Afrotopia
Schwarze Konstruktionen von Gender und Sexualität

in*sight/out*write
Querverlag, Berlin 2025, 64 pages
ISBN 978-3-89656-357-6
Iryna Herasimovich, Nadine Menzel, Nina Weller (ed./eds.)

Befragungen am Nullpunkt
Unabhängige Kultur in Belarus zwischen Aufbruch und Repression

Edition Schublade, Zürich 2025, 224 pages
ISBN 978-3-906-30504-2
Sophia Gräfe, Georg Toepfer (ed./eds.)

Wissensgeschichte des Verhaltens
Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven

De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston 2025, 646 pages
ISBN 978-3-1107-4069-1 (Print); 978-3-1107-4081-3 (eBook)