Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf

Die Melancholie ist seit Aristoteles ein zentrales Thema der europäischen Tradition. Die Arbeit beschreibt die wechselnden Bedingungen für die Rede von der Melancholie und untersucht exemplarisch an Texten des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts die Melancholie des Erzählens, des Lesens und des Bildes.

Diskursgeschichte und Textfiguration

Die Melancholie der Literatur

die visionäre Ästhetik der deutschen Literatur im 20. Jahrhundert

Mystik der Moderne

A major cultural genre from antiquity to the present time, autobiographical writing has developed manifold types and forms. By conceiving autobiography in a wide sense that includes diaries, self-portraits, autofiction as well as medial transformati

Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction

Autobiographical writings have been a major cultural genre from antiquity to the present time. General questions of the literary as, e.g., the relation between literature and reality, truth and fiction, the dependency of author, narrator, and figure, or issues of individual and cultural styles etc., can be studied preeminently in the autobiographical genre. Yet, the tradition of life-writing has, in the course of literary history, developed manifold types and forms. Especially in the globalized age, where the media and other technological / cultural factors contribute to a rapid transformation of lifestyles, autobiographical writing has maintained, even enhanced, its popularity and importance. By conceiving autobiography in a wide sense that includes memoirs, diaries, self-portraits and autofiction as well as media transformations of the genre, this three-volume handbook offers a comprehensive survey of theoretical approaches, systematic aspects, and historical developments in an international and interdisciplinary perspective. While autobiography is usually considered to be a European tradition, special emphasis is placed on the modes of self-representation in non-Western cultures and on inter- and transcultural perspectives of the genre. The individual contributions are closely interconnected by a system of cross-references. The handbook addresses scholars of cultural and literary studies, students as well as non-academic readers.

Helene Basu

Bruno Quast

Many myths that are told again and again are myths of decision-making, such as for instance the decision of Adam and Eve in Paradise to eat the forbidden fruit, the choices of Paris and Heracles, or Buridan’s donkey who starves between two equally attractive haystacks because it cannot decide which one to eat. This volume presents novel interdisciplinary approaches to the question of decision-making as it is reflected in myth and literature. It investigates the relation of myth, narration and the challenge of decision-making. The collection highlights especially the narrative structure of the impossibility to decide that has also been discussed in modern theories of decision-making. Contrary to Rational Choice Theories, the contributions of this collection aim at a Cultural Study approach to decision-making that focusses on social processes of culture specific forms and historical change in decision-making scenarios.

Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf

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