Alterity is not a mere synonym of difference; what it signifies is otherness, a distinction or separation that can entail similarity as well as difference. The articles collected here explore ways to define, situate and negotiate alterity in a manner that does not do away with the other through negation or neutralization but that instead engages alterity as a reconfiguring of identities that keeps them open to change, to a becoming without horizon. Alterity and its situated negotiations with identity are configured through the body, through the psyche and through translational politics. From...

The present study examines authorship identity patterns in the works of Clemens Brentano (1778-1842), inquiring specifically into the function of poetological and transcendental-philosophical models of androgyny. The confusion of gender identities is observable not only in Brentano's fictional writings but also plays a significant role in his letters to Achim von Arnim and Sophie Mereau. The study interprets it as a principle of literary structure and situates it in the context of narratological analysis.

Als Gegenwartsliteratur wird heute meist die Literatur bezeichnet, die seit 1989/90 entstanden ist. Seit der Wende und der Wiedervereinigung hat so viel verandert, dass eine neue literarische Epoche angebrochen scheint. Doch wie lasst sich die Gegenwart in Literatur fassen? Und was sind die Charakteristika von Gegenwartsliteratur? - Dieser Band stellt die zentralen Debatten, Stromungen und Hauptgattungen der Literatur von 1990 bis ins Jahr 2015 dar. Am Anfang der Epo-che standen der Deutsch-Deutsche Literaturstreit und die Frage nach der Einheit der deutschen Literatur. In den 1990er Jahren...