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 program area History of Theory, World Literature, Knowledge of Life, and in the key projects.
News
New in the video collection: Portraits of translators Gundula Tschepego and Ilma Rakusa
Out now in open access: “The Rescuing Sovereign at Sea: Historical Perspectives on Maritime Law, Morals, and Politics”, ed. by Lukas Schemper and Henning Trüper
Out now: Volume on the cultural and perceptual histories of glass, edited by Margerete Vöhringer and Christof Windgätter
