Product Description: English summary: Johann Gottfried Herder played a central role in the emergence of aesthetics and art history in the eighteenth century. His was not only an avid reader and critic of important contemporaries, but also made essential contributions to the possibilities of art and art theory...read more

Product Description: Wie funktioniert das Empfindungsvermogen? Welche Rolle spielt die Kunst in der Entwicklung dieses Vermogens und in der Erziehung des Menschen uberhaupt? Ziel des vorliegenden Bandes ist es, zu untersuchen, wie deutsche und franzosische Autoren des 18...read more

Product Description: Thomas Mann is regarded as the best-known representative of modern German literature. This exceptional status is the result of very conscious work on his own profile. How did Thomas Mann manage to achieve this status as the representative of German literature? Which categories did he use to reflect on his role as a writer? And which alliances or conflicts determined the perception he had of himself and others had of him? What was the part played by his publishers, by German scholars and journalists in the augmentation of his fame? The answers to these questions show how Thomas Mann and both his patrons and his rivals worked to invent him as a writer...read more

Product Description: Das Projekt einer Sozialgeschichte der Literatur gilt allgemein als erschöpft. Dennoch zählen sozialgeschichtliche Problemstellungen wie die Beziehung zwischen literarischem Text und seinem gesellschaftlichen Umfeld, Untersuchungen zur Distribution von Literatur, Fragen nach der historischen und gesellschaftlichen Stellung des Autors und Lesers zur allgemeinen Praxis der Literaturwissenschaft...read more

Product Description: In the last few years, education and nationalization, marginalization and re-integration of relig....