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After a long period of neglect, emotions have become an important topic within literary studies. This collection of essays stresses the complex link between aesthetic and non-aesthetic emotional components. Against this background, emotional patterns are discussed by focusing on the practice of writing as well as on the impact of emotional patterns on receptive processes. Readers will be confronted with a concept of aesthetic emotions as formative both within the writing and the reading process. Essays, ranging in matter from the beginning of modern drama to digital formats and theoretical questions, discuss examples from English, German, French, Russian and American literature.

Literature --- Emotion --- Literature --- Writing --- Practice --- Aesthetic --- General Literature Studies --- British Studies --- German Literature --- Romance Studies --- Literary Studies

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Forgeries are an omnipresent part of our culture. They are closely related to historically and culturally informed ideas of authenticity, legality, authorship, creativity, tradition and innovation. Based on the concept of mimesis, the volume illustrates that forgeries are thus not to be understood as a negative copy or disgraced rip-off of an original – but as an autonomous aesthetic practice, a creative act in itself. The contributions focus on such different implementations such as faked traditions, pseudotranslations, imposters, identity theft, and hoaxes in different arts and historic contexts. Most importantly, they scrutinize the bonds and borders between original and forgery, and turn out their epistemic capability.

Arts --- Forgery --- Culture --- Cultural Transfer --- Translation --- Imitation --- Original --- Copy --- Aesthetic Practice --- Creativity --- Faked Tradition --- Pseudotranslation --- Imposter --- Identity Theft --- Hoax --- Cultural History --- Art --- Literature --- Theory of Art --- General Literature Studies --- Media Aesthetics --- Cultural Studies