How have the forms and functions of authorial epitexts expanded and developed in the German-speaking world since the turn of the millennium in a professionalised literary field with changed media conditions and possibilities with regard to the staging and role of authorship and the correlation of author and work? The contributions collected in this volume address this question with a view to the dynamic relationship between work, authorship and paratext, as articulated in epitexts in particular. The aim is to capture the multifaceted potential of epitexts in their heterogeneity, to focus an different questions and to work out their significance for research in literary studies.

This book is included in DOAB.