Projektnummer

0063883

Zusammenfassung

The Lichtenberg Professorship is situated in the field of Modern German Literature and Comparative Literature. Within this broad framework, it focuses on questions of Transatlantic Literary History, particularly with regard to the relationship between German and US-American literature. The scholarly relevance results from a reciprocal relationship: American authors of the 19th century dealt intensively and critically with German literature in order to derive a genuinely American poetics from it. Conversely, the ambivalent relationship of 20th century German literature to modernity would be unt...