International Symposium
University of Graz, Wall Zentrum, Merangasse 70, Mehrzwecksaal (Ground Floor)
November 29 & 30, 2013
Literary studies as an intrinsically interdisciplinary field of study have been a referential science for other disciplines for quite some time. A number of aesthetic but also non-aesthetic disciplines have referred to literature and literary theory in order to open up new perspectives on their own disciplines and theoretical and methodological approaches. At the same time, literary studies have been increasingly interested in determining their own position and potential within the wider scientific community. This is the precondition for the appearance of an unprecedented number of interdisciplinary approaches over the last decades visible in several fields of research that essentially consist of two disciplines connected with the conjunction "and": literature and medicine, literature and science, literature and history, literature and economics and law and literature. The intersection of law and literature, as well as legal and literary studies, is on this account a particularly dynamic field of research on many levels. The focus of this symposium are thus theoretical reflections aimed at investigating the possibilities of inter- and transdisciplinary transfer of discipline-specific concepts and methods.