Contemporary European Literature: Common Tendencies and Developments in European Languages with an Emphasis on Narrative and Poetry - Proceedings of the Workshop at the University of Aachen, 5-6 December 1997

By means of both general observations on contemporary aesthetics and individual textual analyses, the proceedings of this volume elucidate in different European languages various aspects and common tendencies that are constitutive for contemporary European literary texts, such as intertextuality, intermediality and metafiction. The textual analyses deal with significant examples taken from Spanish, Italian, French, German and English literature. Close scrutiny is given to texts by authors such as Pedro Almodovar, Alessandro Baricco, Andrea De Carlo, Friedrich Christian Delius, Cristina Fernandez Cubas, Seamus Heaney, Alda Merini, Patrick Modiano and Susanna Tamaro, among many others. Partiendo de una discusion de los teoremas de la intertextualidad, de la intermedialidad y de la metaficcion se analizan textos, sobre todo narrativos, pertenecientes a varias literaturas europeas, con particular enfoque en las literaturas espanola, italiana, francesa, alemana e inglesa. Los teoremas mencionados deben ser entendidos como constituyentes comunes de la literatura europea actual. Los estudios aqui recogidos y presentados en varios idiomas europeos se centran en primer lugar en textos significativos de Pedro Almodovar, Alessandro Baricco, Andrea De Carlo, Friedrich Christian Delius, Cristina Fernandez Cubas, Seamus Heaney, Alda Merini, Patrick Modiano y Susanna Tamaro.