For Roland Barthes, the word or concept écriture can dissolve demarcations and rearrange
classifications: 1) Écriture dissolves the boundaries between literary genres to the extent that …

The lexeme Spirale (spiral) serves as an important symbol and figure of thought in Goethe’s
oeuvre that cuts across numerous discourses and disciplines, ranging from aesthetics and …

ON JUNE 21, 1831—less than a year before his death on March 22, 1832—Goethe writes
to his friend and fellow botanist EHF Meyer,“Daß ich nahe am Ende meiner Laufbahn noch …

This dissertation examines how concepts of life articulate themselves in the writing practices
of German authors around 1800, with particular focus on the works of the Göttingen …

While Jean Paul is often associated with notoriously long, digressive novels, this article
makes the case for the reading of Jean Paul above all as an author of the small. By taking the …

Eighteenth-century königsberg was a curious place for a philosopher to have spent his life.
obviously, it was neither the city nor even the century in which the French psychoanalyst …

… In the contribution that follows, Bryan Klausmeyer draws on case studies from German
literature around 1800 to show how the thematization of writing in the context of different media (…

The pairing “writing, the scene of writing” serves as a challenge to consider two ostensibly
opposing facets of writing at once: on the one hand, the thematization of writing within …

This article examines the role of Johann Caspar Lavater’s (1741-1801) physiognomic ideas
in shaping the relationship between the natural sciences and aesthetics at the turn of the …

On July 21, 1941, Brecht arrived at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro via passenger ship
from Vladivostok. For the next six years, he, like many other German and German-speaking …