Difference in Similarity

The essays in this volume explore German-language literatures through examples of difference and similarity, examining individual notions of tradition and modernist tendencies that resist simple traditionalism while fostering continuity. Structured in four sections, the volume emphasizes the value of aesthetically informed intellectual orientation and asks what the arts, especially literature, can contain as knowledge.

Rüdiger Görner, Em. Professor of German with Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom.