The series Culture and Conflict aims to promote a dynamic, pluridisciplinary dialogue meant to discuss the multiple ways in which conflict influences, supports or constrains the production of meaning in modernity. It publishes innovative original scholarship from the fields of literary and cultural studies as well as media, visual and film studies. Culture and conflict inevitably go together. The very idea of culture is marked by the notion of difference and creative, i.e., conflictual interaction. Differential markers, such as self and other, inside and outside, high and low, pure and dirty, old and new, support the key themes of the study of culture, e.g., identity and diversity, memory and trauma, translation of cultures and globalization, mediation and exclusion. The new series Culture and Conflict aims to promote a dynamic, pluridisciplinary dialogue meant to discuss the multiple ways in which conflict influences, supports or constrains the production of meaning in modernity. It publishes innovative original scholarship from the fields of literary and cultural studies as well as media, visual and film studies.

Das Lehrbuch "Polnische Literatur im langen 19. Jahrhundert. Grundbegriffe - Autor:innen - Textinterpretationen" ist eine moderne Literaturgeschichte, die für Studierende und Leser:innen mit geringen Vorkenntnissen im Bereich der polnischen Literatur verständlich wird und Grundbegriffe und zentrale Probleme der polnischen Kultur als Mentalitätsgeschichte erzählt. Das Buch liefert ein niedrigschwelliges Angebot den Kanon der polnischen Literatur von der Romantik bis zur Moderne sowie zentrale Begriffe der polnischen Kultur kennenzulernen und anhand beispielhafter Literaturanalysen zu vertiefen.

This book analyzes the ideology-based reception of Adam Mickiewicz in Communist Poland and of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in East Germany, the dynamics of that process and the strategies used to exploit the iconic status of the poets for the purpose of reaffirming the legitimacy of the new system.