The linguae& litterae series edited by Peter Auer Gesa von Essen and Werner Frick documents
the research activities of the School of Languageand Literature of the Freiburg Institute for
Advanced Studies (FRIAS). These research activities in literary studies and linguistics are
characterized by an approach that is theoretically and methodologically state of the art and
interdisciplinarily open.In linguistics the accent is on the corpus-based quantitative and
qualitative investigation of language in literary studies the focus is on the comparative
transdisciplinary analysis of literary phenomena in their cultural contexts. At the same time
the series deals with the productive interfaces and synergies between modern linguistics and
literary studies (as well as the humanities social and natural sciences with which they
interact). It seeks a new contemporary reformulation of the humanities research curriculum and
its problem and concept orientation for the future.The series has a clear international
orientation - each volume is multilingual containing German English and French contributions
and depending on the volume articles in Italian or Spanish as well. Each individual volume is
peer reviewed by an international editorial board.Each year 2-4 volumes are published.
