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The series offers lively, comprehensive accounts of contemporary German culture written by experts and designed for advanced student readers and scholars alike. Both in monographs and closely-defined edited collections, it aims to introduce major authors, thinkers, filmmakers, literary topics, genres and landmark individual works, focusing on the period since 1989 but reaching back, where appropriate, to the vital hinterland of the 1970s.

German literature. --- German literature --- History and criticism. --- Contemporary German literature. --- contemporary poetry. --- migration literature. --- women's writing.

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»Einfachheit« gehört zu den maßgeblichen Wertzuschreibungen der Kunst-, Kultur- und Literaturgeschichte. Nadine Wisotzki greift das mit der »Sehnsucht nach Einfachheit« einhergehende Funktionalisierungspotential auf, um dem bemerkenswerten Erfolg der Einfachheit in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur nachzugehen. Am Beispiel des erzählerischen Werks von Judith Hermann, Peter Stamm und Robert Seethaler fragt sie, mit welcher Intention und Qualität sich die Einfachheit hier formiert und ob es sich bei der Kunst der Reduktion um ein spezifisch für die Gegenwart relevantes Konzept handelt. Damit leistet sie einen wesentlichen Beitrag zu der noch ausstehenden literaturwissenschaftlichen Systematisierung einer »Ästhetik der Einfachheit«.

Einfachheit; Komplexität; Deutschsprachige Gegenwartsliteratur; Form; Ästhetik; Erzähltechnik; Stilistik; Begriffsgeschichte; Judith Hermann; Peter Stamm; Robert Seethaler; Literatur; Kultur; Germanistik; Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft; Kulturwissenschaft; Literaturwissenschaft; Simplicity; Complexity; Contemporary German Literature; Aesthetics; Plot Device; Stylistics; Conceptual History; Literature; Culture; German Literature; Literary Studies; Cultural Studies --- Aesthetics. --- Complexity. --- Conceptual History. --- Contemporary German Literature. --- Cultural Studies. --- Culture. --- Form. --- German Literature. --- Judith Hermann. --- Literary Studies. --- Literature. --- Peter Stamm. --- Plot Device. --- Robert Seethaler. --- Stylistics.

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In the German-speaking world there has been a new wave - intensifying since 2007 - of autobiographically inspired writing on illness and disability, death and dying. Nina Schmidt's book takes such writing seriously as literature, examining how the authors of such personal narratives come to write of their experiences between the poles of cliché and exceptionality. Identifying shortcomings in the approaches taken thus far to such texts, she makes suggestions as to how to better read such narratives from the stance of literary scholarship, then demonstrates the value of a literary disability studies approach to such writing with close readings of Charlotte Roche's Schoßgebete (2011), Kathrin Schmidt's Du stirbst nicht (2009), Verena Stefan's Fremdschläfer (2007), and - in the final, comparative chapter - Christoph Schlingensief's So schön wie hier kanns im Himmel gar nicht sein! Tagebuch einer Krebserkrankung (2009) and Wolfgang Herrndorf's blog-cum-book Arbeit und Struktur (2010-13). Schmidt shows that authors dealing with illness and disability do so with an awareness of their precarious subject position in the public eye, a position they negotiate creatively. Writing the liminal experience of serious illness along the borders of genre, moving between fictional and autobiographical modes, they carve out spaces from which they speak up and share their personal stories in the realm of literature, to political ends. Nina Schmidt is a postdoctoral researcher in the Friedrich Schlegel School of Literary Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Diseases in literature. --- People with disabilities in literature. --- German fiction --- Autobiographical fiction, German --- German prose literature --- History and criticism. --- German literature --- Handicapped in literature --- Physically handicapped in literature --- Autobiographical Literature. --- Autobiographical Narratives. --- Autobiographical Writing. --- Contemporary German Literature. --- Disability Studies. --- Disability. --- German Authors. --- German Literature. --- Illness Experience. --- Illness Narratives. --- Illness Writing. --- Illness. --- Intimacy. --- Liminal Experience. --- Literary Analysis. --- Literary Disability Studies. --- Literary Scholarship. --- Literature on Illness. --- Literature. --- Personal Narratives. --- Political Ends. --- Reflective Approach. --- The Wounded Self. --- Wounded Self.