Literaturkritik heute
Tendenzen – Traditionen – Vermittlung
Thomas Anz, David-Christopher Assmann, Andrea Bachmann-Stein, Manuel Bauer, Giulia A. Disanto, Thomas Ernst, Carsten Gansel, Christina Gansel, Gabriele Guerra, Michael Hametner, Norman Kasper, Heinrich Kaulen, Thomas Küpper, Stefan Neuhaus, Jose Fernández Pérez, Caroline Roeder, Oliver Ruf, Stefan Stein, Dessislava Stoeva-Holm, Jan Süselbeck, Rüdiger Vogt
Literary criticism is one of the most important instances of literary mediation. It shapes the public notion of what literature is, and what it could be or should be. To this day, however, despite its diverse functions in the literary world, it only plays a marginal role in literary studies. Only in recent years has it begun to be established in the course of a more practical orientation in teaching and research in German studies departments. The contributors to this volume examine literary criticism past and present, addressing in an interdisciplinary approach its function in the media, school and society.