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"The Introduction offers a brief overview of why Wittgenstein has come to matter to contemporary literary studies and philosophical work on literature. In addition to explaining what "literary Wittgensteinianism" is, it provides a point of entry into the chapters of this volume by explaining the basic difference between the "early" and "late" Wittgenstein and how each has opened up novel ways of thinking about the relationship between philosophy and literature"--

Introduction: the zero hour -- The consciousness of German guilt -- The writer, the conscience, and absolute presence -- Two kinds of emigration -- The property of the nation -- Yogis and commissars -- A German generation gap? -- The darkening of consciousness -- Postscript: revisiting the zero hour

Hungarian literary images of East Germans from the 1970s & early 1980s were as nonthreatening, fellow socialists, even though Hungarian fears of German aggressiveness had been justified in the past, or as obtuse & humorless. Ambivalent literary images from this period could actually be due to the German orientation of the writers. Despite the prevalence of English in the 1990s in Hungarian literature, some of the most influential writers, eg, Peter Esterhazy & Peter Nadas, still have a German orientation, which translates into their literary themes & alters perceptions about Germans & Germanness already present in the Hungarian culture. Their more important works & Germanic themes are summarized here. Their German orientation reflects a turn away from the US & former Soviet superpowers & toward a Europe in which Germany is the central influence. M. Pflum

Übersicht über vier neuere literaturkritische Veröffentlichungen lateinamerikanischer Autoren. Der Rezensent weist auf die Bedeutung des gesamtpolitischen Rahmens für das literarische Schaffen hin, und er hebt die nüchterne Betrachtungsweise der untersuchten Literaturkritik hervor

The author believes that the recent literary scene in Taiwan has been so dazzlingly varied that any attempt to sum it up succeeds only in seizing certain aspects at the expense of others. The article examines the significant changes in the island's literary scene in the 1980s. Its purpose is to show how the cultural/literary scope widened in Taiwan during the 1980s, especially in the post-martial law era, and how this has provoked arguments on the politics of representation, and the treatment of literary products as consumer goods. (DÜI-Sen)

"The volume shows how both the distinction and connection between literature and poetry is staged within Heidegger's thought. It offers Heidegger's perspective on a range of key themes, topics, poets, and writers, including Friedrich Hölderlin, Thomas Mann, Paul Celan, Euripides and Sophocles"--