This volume opens German-language research on exile to comparative and interdisciplinary studies on exile, and explores an expansion of historical and methodological perspectives that goes beyond the 1933 to 1945 time period and the long-predominant emphasis on anti-fascism. Impulses from other conceptual systems, such as post-colonialism, research in acculturation and transnationalism, translation theory, and cultural scientific research on trauma are successfully invoked to analyze the relationship between literature and exile. The book introduces these newer approaches into the discourse to generate a new impetus for further discussion.

Klaus-Detlef MA1/4ller's studies represent a consistent literary history of the modern age between the Baroque and the present, centering on two pillars of enlightenment discourse: criticism and dialogue. The articles assembled here are responses to Klaus-Detlef MA1/4ller's major research concerns: literature in the age of Goethe, realism, classical modernism, and issues posed by the theory of genre and media theory. As such, they reflect the broad historical, intermedial, and methodological range of MA1/4ller's interests, and his commitment to the ethos of enlightenment.