Research focus

Focuses of research

• The theory and history of historiography, poetics of knowledge, narratology
• Enlightenment as intention and as epoch; its images, metaphors and concepts
• The Enlightenment in (scholarly) politics of the 19th to 21st centuries
• Weimar Classicism; materiality of the classical
• Theory and history of literary genres: Social history of early modern comedy (money motifs and metaphors), modern tragedy
• Cultural patterns and social imaginaries
• Cultural studies of motifs: anthropophagy
• Contemporary literature

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