Today s spectrum of research in literary studies is characterized by a sense of openness to the methods of comparative literature and cultural studies, along with a wide range of interdisciplinary crossover. The spectrum Literaturwissenschaft series is intended to be a forum for this pluralistic new model of literary studies. It presents papers that are informed by methodologically innovative, frequently comparative approaches, and whose findings are of importance well beyond the narrow boundaries of national philological horizons.
Novels of the 21st century address contemporary issues and concerns in diverse ways. Is there a way to characterize their modernity from a poetological perspective? The essays collected in this volume systematically explore both explicit and implicit poetologies in German-language narrative literature since the turn of the century. Their particular focus is on the relationship between realistic and fantastic modes of writing.
Silke Horstkotte und Leonhard Herrmann, Universität Leipzig.
"[...] stellt der von Silke Horstkotte und Leonhard Herrmann herausgegebene Tagungsband eine für die weitere Forschung sehr wichtige Bestandsaufnahme zeitgenössischer Poetiken, poetologischer (Selbst-)Positionierungen im literarischen Feld und zentraler Diskurse über die Gemachtheit von Literatur dar."
Matthias Beilein in: http://www.iaslonline.de/index.php?vorgang_id=3816
