Monography profile

The collective volume Kultur im Transfer: Komparatistik in der Slowakei provides a comprehensive view of contemporary comparative literary studies at the Institute of World Literature. The contributions are based on a series of lectures which the members of the Institute held at the Department of Comparative Literature of the University of Vienna in the summer semester of 2012. The topics range from the influence of Indian culture on German literature, to translation problems in the reception of foreign literatures, to conceptualization of literary communication, to the reception of the work of Franz Kafka in Czechoslovakia, to the postcolonial studies of African literature.