Literatur und Wissen

Literatur und WissenWas wissen literarische Texte? Wie gelangt dieses Wissen in Literatur? Knnen literarische Werke eine Quelle von Wissen sein? Welche Rolle spielen (wissenschaftliche) Erkenntnisse beim Verfassung von Romanen, Gedichten oder Dramen? Und wie lassen sich die von literarischen Texten implizierten, thematisierten oder problematisierten Wissensbestnde identifizieren und beschreiben, verstehen und interpretieren? Wenige Problemfelder der textinterpretierenden

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Delia Casadei approaches laughter not as a phenomenon that can be accounted for by studies of humor and theories of comedy but rather as a technique of the human body

this cultural history of the Restoration offers a rich and colorful portrait of a period in which critical legacies of the revolutionary period were played out and cemented

and run better

and consumption of food

Had he been hanging out with the wrong crowd

the basics of the injection molding machine

phonetic spelling reforms were debated

toward hospital births with increasing reliance on new technologies

The forty-eight short chapters present biographies about objects that range in size from four miles long to seven by ten centimeters

and international aims of social repair—probing the meaning of absence itself

human rights are truly universal