Schreiben an den Grenzen der Sprache

The linguae& litterae series, edited by Peter Auer, Gesa von Essen and Werner Frick, documents the research activities of the School of Languageand Literature of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS). These research activities in literary studies and linguistics are characterized by an approach that is theoretically and methodologically "state of the art" and interdisciplinarily open.

In linguistics the accent is on the corpus-based, quantitative and qualitative investigation of language; in literary studies the focus is on the comparative, transdisciplinary analysis of literary phenomena in their cultural contexts. At the same time the series deals with the productive interfaces and synergies between modern linguistics and literary studies (as well as the humanities, social and natural sciences with which they interact). It seeks a new, contemporary reformulation of the humanities research curriculum and its problem and concept orientation for the future.

The series has a clear international orientation - each volume is multilingual, containing German, English and French contributions and, depending on the volume, articles in Italian or Spanish as well. Each individual volume is peer reviewed by an international editorial board.

Each year 2-4 volumes are published.

This book examines works on the experiences of dictatorship and concentration camps in 20th century history to investigate the question of how terror, violence, and pain can be transformed into literature. What narrative tools do these texts use to communicate liminal experiences at the outer limits of what can be said, how do they deal with the tension between fact and fiction, and what potentials dwell within this literature of remembrance?

Autorentext

Marisa Siguan, Universität Barcelona, Spanien.

Zusammenfassung
"Das Buch ist ergreifend und komplex, schwierig zu lesen und dennoch lesenswert für alle, die auch als Leser bereit sind, an ihre Grenzen zu gehen, wenn sie mit Hilfe der vielen Primärtextbeispiele in die Welt der Autoren eintauchen."
Constanze Fiebach in: www.literaturkritik.de