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Chairholder is Professor Dr. Martin Middeke.

Research Interests

• Literary theory, especially phenomenological hermeneutics and cultural anthropology (interaction of philosophy, aesthetics and experiential structures), as well as discourse theories, New Historicism, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, feminist/gender theory, and narratology

• Early Modern prose and drama

• Great Britain in the 18th century: literature and culture, “common sense” and empiricism, prose fiction

  Novels and poetry of the 19th century, fin de siècle

• Contemporary anglophone literature: plays and novels (especially England, Ireland and Canada)

• James Joyce — Samuel Beckett

• Post-modernism in literature and culture

• Interrelation between literature and historiography

• Biography — fictional biography

• Intermedial relations between literature and art