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Queer and Bookish: Eve Kosofksy Sedgwick as Book Artist represents the first book-length study to explore the intersections of Sedgwick’s critical writing, poetry, and, most importantly, book art, making the case that her art criticism, especially her meditations on domestic and nineteenth-century photography, and “artist’s book” projects are as formally complex and brilliant, conceptually significant and life-changing, as her literary criticism and theory. In addition, the book represents a significant intervention into recent debates about reparative reading, surface reading, and the descriptive turn across the humanities, because of its sustained, positive accounts on Sedgwick’s books as visual, textural, and material objects. The book ranges across Sedgwick’s published output, from The Coherence of Gothic Conventions (1980) to the posthumously published The Weather in Proust (2011), and features her meditations on a wide variety of art-historical topoi, including Judith Scott’s queer/crip fiber art; the anality of Polykleitos’s Doryphorus; queer Modernist typography; Piranesi’s punitive space; Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell’s queer holy family; Manet’s frontality and thalassic aesthetics; fat and thin aesthetics of various stripes; and the queer photography of Anna Atkins, Clementina Hawarden, and Julia Margaret Cameron; Baron De Mayer, Eugene Atget, and P.H. Emerson; as well as David Hockney, Ken Brown, and her own father, a NASA lunar photographer. The book climaxes with two chapter-length explorations of Sedgwick’s own late-life book-art practice: her panda Valentine alphabet cards (c. 1996) and her Last Days of Pompeii/Cavafy unique artist’s book (c. 2007).

Autorschaft erfordert mehr als das Schreiben eines Textes: Um 1800 wird sie vor allem durch das gedruckte Buch hervorgebracht. In dieser Zeit entwickelt sie sich zu einem sozialen Phänomen, im deutschsprachigen Raum grassiert die »Schriftstellersucht«. Tobias Fuchs untersucht in diesem Kontext die auf das Buchartefakt bezogenen Praktiken des Publizierens zwischen 1765 und 1815. Die Materialität von Literatur betrachtet er dabei in ihren ästhetischen, merkantilen, poetologischen, rechtlichen sowie wissensgeschichtlichen Dimensionen. Der Bogen reicht von Jean Pauls handgeschriebenen Büchern über gedruckte Artefakte bis zur Makulatur.

The journal "Mitteilungen aus dem Brenner-Archiv" has been published regularly since the early 1980s (No. 1/1982). It provides information on the activities of the research institute Brenner-Archiv: on new estates, research projects and on current publications. In addition, scolarly contributions from international authors are included, whose research areas range from literary studies to philosophy and (cultural) history. The papers mainly refer to topics related to the "Brenner", the "Brenner"-circle or the more than 300 estates of the institute (especially from "Brenner" employees and Tyrolean authors of the 19th and 20th Century).

The journal "Mitteilungen aus dem Brenner-Archiv" has been published regularly since the early 1980s (No. 1/1982). It provides information on the activities of the research institute Brenner-Archiv: on new estates, research projects and on current publications. In addition, scolarly contributions from international authors are included, whose research areas range from literary studies to philosophy and (cultural) history. The papers mainly refer to topics related to the "Brenner", the "Brenner"-circle or the more than 300 estates of the institute (especially from "Brenner" employees and Tyrolean authors of the 19th and 20th Century).

This volume presents papers of the conference “Components of Translation-oriented Language Competence and Basic Translation Competencies” which took place at the Department of Translation Studies of the University of Innsbruck on 22 and 23 September 2017. The programme of the conference comprised a variety of different topics of the field of translation teaching as, for example, the role of the students’ mother tongue or A language in translator education, foreign language training for translators, and topics in general and specialised translation including instruments for teaching literary and legal translation. - Der vorliegende Band ist das Ergebnis der Tagung Bausteine translationsorientierter Sprachkompetenz und translatorischer Basiskompetenzen, die am 22. und 23. September 2017 am Institut für Translationswissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck stattfand. Im Rahmen der Tagung wurde ein breites Spektrum translationsdidaktischer Themen angesprochen, wie die Rolle der Mutter- bzw. Bildungssprache in der Übersetzerausbildung, die Fremdsprachenausbildung für Übersetzer sowie allgemeine und fachsprachliche translatorische Fragestellungen, darunter didaktische Instrumente in der Literatur- und Rechtsübersetzung.

The journal "Mitteilungen aus dem Brenner-Archiv" has been published regularly since the early 1980s (No. 1/1982). It provides information on the activities of the research institute Brenner-Archiv: on new estates, research projects and on current publications. In addition, scolarly contributions from international authors are included, whose research areas range from literary studies to philosophy and (cultural) history. The papers mainly refer to topics related to the "Brenner", the "Brenner"-circle or the more than 300 estates of the institute (especially from "Brenner" employees and Tyrolean authors of the 19th and 20th Century).

The journal "Mitteilungen aus dem Brenner-Archiv" has been published regularly since the early 1980s (No. 1/1982). It provides information on the activities of the research institute Brenner-Archiv: on new estates, research projects and on current publications. In addition, scolarly contributions from international authors are included, whose research areas range from literary studies to philosophy and (cultural) history. The papers mainly refer to topics related to the "Brenner", the "Brenner"-circle or the more than 300 estates of the institute (especially from "Brenner" employees and Tyrolean authors of the 19th and 20th Century).

The journal "Mitteilungen aus dem Brenner-Archiv" has been published regularly since the early 1980s (No. 1/1982). It provides information on the activities of the research institute Brenner-Archiv: on new estates, research projects and on current publications. In addition, scolarly contributions from international authors are included, whose research areas range from literary studies to philosophy and (cultural) history. The papers mainly refer to topics related to the "Brenner", the "Brenner"-circle or the more than 300 estates of the institute (especially from "Brenner" employees and Tyrolean authors of the 19th and 20th Century).

The journal "Mitteilungen aus dem Brenner-Archiv" has been published regularly since the early 1980s (No. 1/1982). It provides information on the activities of the research institute Brenner-Archiv: on new estates, research projects and on current publications. In addition, scolarly contributions from international authors are included, whose research areas range from literary studies to philosophy and (cultural) history. The papers mainly refer to topics related to the "Brenner", the "Brenner"-circle or the more than 300 estates of the institute (especially from "Brenner" employees and Tyrolean authors of the 19th and 20th Century).

The journal "Mitteilungen aus dem Brenner-Archiv" has been published regularly since the early 1980s (No. 1/1982). It provides information on the activities of the research institute Brenner-Archiv: on new estates, research projects and on current publications. In addition, scolarly contributions from international authors are included, whose research areas range from literary studies to philosophy and (cultural) history. The papers mainly refer to topics related to the "Brenner", the "Brenner"-circle or the more than 300 estates of the institute (especially from "Brenner" employees and Tyrolean authors of the 19th and 20th Century).

For most people, the terms "Acadiens", "Cadiens", and "Cajuns" are interchangeable words supposed to describe the same identities with regional variations depending on the Acadian or Louisiana context. The papers presented in this volume shed a new light on these identities by reinterpreting history, politics, language, literature, and popular culture in the light of current scholarly schemes. - Les termes "Acadiens", "Cadiens", and "Cajuns" sont interchangeables pour la plupart des gens et renvoient à une seule et même identité avec des variantes régionales dépendant du contexte acadien ou louisianais. Les essais rassemblés dans ce volume remettent en cause ce mythe en revendiquant une compréhension plus sophistiquée de l’histoire, de la politique, de la langue, de la littérature et de la culture populaire de ces minorités francophones en Amérique du Nord.

Since the 1980s, scholars have made the case for examining 19th-century culture, particularly literary output, through the lens of economics. Bivona and Tromp have collected contributions that push New Economic Criticism in new directions. Spanning the Americas, India, England, and Scotland, this volume adopts a global view of the cultural effects of economics and exchange. Contributors use the concept of abstraction to show how economic thought and concerns around money permeated all aspects of 19th-century culture, from the language of wills to arguments around the social purpose of art. The characteristics of investment and speculation; the symbolic and practical meanings of paper money to the Victorians; the shifting value of goods, services, and ideas; the evolving legal conceptualizations of artistic ownership are all essential to understanding nineteenth-century culture in Britain and beyond.