This new book displays an idea and method, actually a cluster of several methods, in an innovative combination, which introduces its readers to a poetics of reading appropriate for today's cultural world.
Karolina Watroba is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Modern Languages at All Souls College, University of Oxford, where she is also affiliated with the German Sub-Faculty and the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Research Centre. She works on modern literature and film across eight European languages and beyond, with a focus on material in German, English, and Polish. She grew up in Krakow, Poland, before moving to Oxford, where she studied German and comparative literature, including a year at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin, with funding from the Ertegun Scholarship, the Clarendon Fund, and the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.