What does it mean for poetry and music to turn to each other, in the shadow of the Holocaust, as a means of aesthetic self-reflection? How can their mutual mirroring, of such paramount importance to German Romanticism, be reconfigured to retain its validity after the Second World War? These are the [...]
Möjligheten att nÃ¥ fram till nÃ¥got autentiskt har blivit föremÃ¥l för en kritisk dekonstruktion; längtan efter det genuina och ursprungliga uppfattas alltmer som ideologiskt tveksamt; genomkommersialiseringen av samhället urholkar idén om äkthet när den förvandlas till en reklamslogan - Ã[...]
Languages of Exile examines the relationship between geographic and linguistic border crossings in twentieth-century literature. Like no period before it, the last century was marked by the experience of expatriation, forcing exiled writers to confront the fact of linguistic difference. Literary wri[...]