Three contributions to the current issue elaborate aspects of a specific implicit poetics in
each case: G. Keller ironically portrays an epigone in his novella Die mißbrauchten
Liebesbriefe who proclaims a new Sturm- und Drang period in order to present himself as an
original genius (B. Neymeyr) J. N. Nestroy and H. v. Hoffmannsthal parody and complicate the
possible solutions of the traditional comedy ending (S. Haag) and I. Aichinger like twin
sister H. Michie creates an aesthetic of the leap as an alternative to the dictates of
established contexts (Ch. Ivanovic). A fourth contribution highlights the metaphorical
background of P. Ehrenfest's thinking about quantum physics (J. Loescher). The volume is
rounded off by reviews of new publications on the interaction of literature and music on the
image of Austria in France on the Prague intellectual O. Fischer and on H. D. Thoreau's novel
Walden.
