This paper analyses the perceptions of the year 1913 by a direct witness and exact observer of time and literary life: The philologist Richard Moritz Meyer is represented in the “Gesamtbild” issued by David Sarason The ...

After presenting academic studies on contemporary literature between 1910 and 1930 in general and in particular on Rilke, I discuss the author’s perception of the criticism on his own poetry in order to explore the ...

Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and Wyndham Lewis have all, to varying degrees, been the subject of studies that explore their ideology. All too often, however, these studies have not tackled the issue adequately, limiting their ...

Emile Zola’s novel „Au Bonheur des Dames“ abounds with excessive enumeration and description of clothes. The overwhelming arrangement of these clothes in the department store does not only irresistibly attract female ...

Mit dem Tod Friedrich des Großen im August 1786 und über ihn hinaus wurden Fragen der Erinnerungskultur für einen ›Großen Mann‹ virulent, die eine besondere Ausprägung erfuhren, trafen sie doch im letzten Drittel des 18. ...

A hallmark of the Odyssey’s topography is its deterritorialization. Assuming that, in antiquity, sailing manuals had to reckon with the nautical and existential disorientation experienced on the high seas, these nautical ...

The contribution clarifies from an epistemological and hermeneutical perspective some of the indispensable assumptions which are generally made during hypothetical deductive and hypothetical inductive inferences in text ...