Bücher von Eric Downing

The series Studien zur deutschen Literatur (Studies in German Literature) presents outstanding analyses of German-speaking literature from the early modern period to the present day. It particularly embraces comparative, cultural and historical-epistemological questions and serves as a tradition-steeped forum for innovative literary research. All submitted manuscripts undergo a double peer-review process. Please contact the editor Dr. Marcus Bohm (marcus.boehm [at] degruyter.com) for further information regarding manuscript submission and subsidies.

Explores the intersections of photography, archaeology, and psychoanalysis and their effect on conceptions of the subject and his formation or Bildung in the literature and theory of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This title examines works from Thomas Mann, Sigmund Freud, and Walter Benjamin.