The ZfL
The ZfL is a humanities institute for literary research in interdisciplinary contexts that draws from a cultural studies framework. Its methods also engage with the structural transformations within historical-hermeneutic subject areas that have taken place in recent decades. In contrast to the study of literature at universities, predominantly organized by nationality, the ZfL fosters a broad concept of literature, but also uses interdisciplinary tools to fundamentally question the etiology of various literary concepts, their potential for the future, and the relationship between literature and other arts or cultural practices. This is done in the three research areas History of Theory, World Literature, and Knowledge of Life.
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25 Nov 2019
Out now: »Philatelie als Kulturwissenschaft. Weltaneignung im Miniaturformat«, ed. by Dirk Naguschewski, Detlev Schöttker
22 Nov 2019
Out now: »Sehstörungen. Grenzwerte des Visuellen in Künsten und Wissenschaften«, ed. by Anne-Kathrin Reulecke, Margarete Vöhringer
18 Nov 2019
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