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In welchem Verhaltnis stehen Literaturbetrieb und Literatur, zumal unter seit den 1990er Jahren veranderten sozialstrukturellen Bedingungen? Anhand von Texten Bodo Kirchhoffs, Andreas Maiers, Norbert Gstreins und Ernst-Wilhelm Handlers untersucht die Studie, wie deutschsprachige Literatur um 2000 selbst mit dieser Frage umgeht. Dabei zeigt sich, dass die literarischen Inszenierungen Literaturbetriebsreflexion und -praxis in eins fallen lassen.

Assmann takes special care to distinguish between the "implicit" theology of Egyptian polytheism and the...

"Human beings," the acclaimed Egyptologist Jan Assmann writes, "are the animals that have to live with the knowledge of their death, and culture is the world they create so they can live with that knowledge." In his new book, Assmann explores images of death and of death rites in ancient Egypt to provide startling new insights into the particular character of the civilization as a whole.

Drawing on the unfamiliar genre of the death liturgy, he arrives at a remarkably comprehensive view of the religion of death in ancient Egypt. Assmann describes in detail nine different images of...