Research
- Literary theory, especially phenomenological hermeneutics and cultural anthropology (interaction of philosophy, aesthetics and experiential structures), as well as discourse theories, New Historicism, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, feminist/gender theory, and narratology
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Early Modern prose and drama
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Great Britain in the 18th century: literature and culture, “common sense” and empiricism, prose fiction
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Novels and poetry of the 19th century, fin de siècle
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Contemporary anglophone literature: plays and novels (especially England, Ireland and Canada)
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James Joyce — Samuel Beckett
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Post-modernism in literature and culture
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Interrelation between literature and historiography
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Biography — fictional biography
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Intermedial relations between literature and art