Year: 2021

As part of the appointment process for the chair of English Studies: Literature and Culture, the candidates will hold their talks on April 22 and 23, 2021. These online lectures are open to FAU students and faculty. If you want to participate, please send an e-mail from your FAUmail address to phil-...

Kategorie: Department, English Studies, News

The changing media environment of the English Restoration brought forth a sizeable increase in various forms of literary culture, including the birth of large-scale periodical publishing and the ready availability of the letter. Contrary to the widely held consensus that the letter promoted reliability, recent scholarship has stressed the form’s deconstructive potential, allowing both readers and writers to reflect on the mediated nature of writing and the tenuous relationship between sign and reality.