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.

Der Erste Weltkrieg: einschneidende Modernisierungs- und Krisenerfahrung. Das Handbuch verfolgt die Entwicklungen und Veränderungen in Politik, Gesellschaft, Technik und Mentalitäten bis in die 1920er Jahre hinein – und wirft einen beispiellosen Blick hinter die geschichtlichen Fakten. Welche Themen, Diskurse und Mythen ranken sich um die Ereignisse? Wie werden diese wahrgenommen, gedeutet und verarbeitet? Welchen Widerhall finden sie in Kultur, Literatur und Kunst? Das Handbuch betrachtet die Phänomene der Zeit aus moderner, interdisziplinärer Perspektive, so zum Beispiel die Kriegsaffirmation, den industrialisierten Krieg, den Stellungskrieg und Nahkampf, die emotionale Mobilmachung und Erinnerungskultur, Männerbünde, Körper- und Nervenkrisen.