Dr Heide Kunzelmann, Lecturer in German, in the Department of Modern Languages has co-edited a new book with Dr Anne Simon, entitled The Window: Motifs and Topos in Austrian, German and Swiss Art and Literature (Iudicium, 2016).
This volume illustrates how an item so central to our everyday life comes to govern aesthetic discourses concerned with openness and knowledge. It also identifies how, in the German cultural context, the literature, art and architecture of different epochs exploit the window’s potential as both physical portal and metaphor for human interconnectedness, self-perception and the transcendence of the self.
For further details please see the publisher’s webpage at: www.iudicium.de/katalog/86205-438.htm