Paul Michael Lützeler
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Rosa May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities
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Professor, Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Comparative Literature
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Buergerkrieg global: Menschenrechtsethos und deutschsprachiger Gegenwartsroman [Global Civil War: Human Rights Ethics and the Contemporary German Novel]. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2009. A study of how the contemporary German modern novel explores the links between questions pertaining to human rights, ethics, and the problems of globalization.
Kontinentalisierung: Das Europa der Schriftsteller [Continentalization: The Writers´ Europe]. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2007. A collection of case studies that treat concepts of modern Europe in each literary period since European Romanticism, including essays on Goethe and Coleridge, Romain Rolland, C. F. Meyer, Thomas Mann, and Milan Kundera.
Postmoderne und postkoloniale deutschsprachige Literatur [Postmodern and Postcolonial Germanophone Literature]. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2005. An examination of the interconnectedness of postmodernism, multiculturalism, and postcolonialism and their impact on contemporary German and Austrian literature.
Die Entropie des Menschen. Studien zum Werk Hermann Brochs [Human Entropy: Studies of the Works of Hermann Broch]. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2000. An interpretation of the modernist aesthetics of Hermann Broch as revealed through his novels and his correspondence with friends such as Hannah Arendt.