This new series presents original scholarly and essayistic work addressing the central status of literature in and for the human sciences. At stake in the monographs and essay collections are paradigms of literary forms for thinking the human sciences: the knowledge involved in a literary work; how modes of reading and writing shape and depend on an epoch or area of thinking; literature's affinities and points of resistance to what we call the humanities and the sciences. In other words, the series examines how literature works with and upon philosophy, rhetoric, technology, anthropology, sociology, statistics, economics, history, experimental science, mathematics etc. Paradigms is primarily concerned with German letters, but also includes its European and comparative literary contexts.All volumes will be published in English and are first reviewed by the series editors followed by a peer review from two academics in the particular area of specialization. Two to four volumes are planned annually. EditorsRüdiger Campe (Yale University)Karen S. Feldman (University of California, Berkeley) Editorial BoardPaul Fleming (Cornell University) Eva Geulen (Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin)Rüdiger Görner (Queen Mary, University of London)Barbara Hahn (Vanderbilt University)Daniel Heller-Roazen (Princeton University)Helmut Müller-Sievers (University of Colorado at Boulder)William Rasch (Indiana University, Bloomington)Joseph Vogl (Humboldt University, Berlin)Elisabeth Weber (University of California, Santa Barbara) Submission FormatThe series accepts monographs and edited volumes, if they systematically approach a specific topic and show a high level of coherence and focus.Please submit an abstract and table of contents with narrative description of each chapter (4–5 pages total, single-spaced) as well as a CV along with the complete manuscript.Only complete manuscripts can be evaluated. In exceptional cases, abstracts or outlines can be submitted to discuss the general fit of a book with the series’ editors. Please understand that a final commitment for publication can only be reached on the basis of a complete manuscript.Manuscripts should have a minimum length of circa 200 pages (approximately 500,000 characters including spaces).Please submit your abstract, table of contents, and CV as one file; the complete manuscript as a second file to Dr. Myrto Aspioti: myrto.aspioti@degruyter.com.
Karen S. Feldman, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
"Was die Arts of Connection daher an die Hand gibt, ist nichts Geringeres als eine ganz eigenständige
Literaturtheorie, die auf die Frage, wie Geschichte(n) erzählt und gelesen wird bzw.
werden, eine hochreflektierte Antwort gibt. Dass diese Frage nicht zum 'Wie' des Erzählens, also
zum Diskurs, sondern zum bisher weitgehend vernachlässigten 'Was' des Erzählens, also zur
Geschichte (histoire; plot) führt, weist in die Zukunft der Narratologie. Ich habe dieses Buch
mit großer Aufmerksamkeit, Spannung und Bewunderung gelesen, ja mit regelrechter Lust an
Feldmans hohem Abstraktionsniveau, das sich von einer kulturwissenschaftlich weichgespülten Prosa selbstbewusst unterscheidet." Frauke Berndt in: Zeitschrift für Germanistik, NF 3/2021, 580-583.
