While sociologists have long agreed that the problems of modern and contemporary subjectivity crystallize in the issue of romantic relationships and love (e.g. Luhmann, Illouz, Beck, etc.), the theme of love, so crucial to the foundational text of modern German literature, Goethe''s Werther, all but disappeared from German prose literature in the twentieth century. Yet over the past fifteen years German-language literature has witnessed an explosionof both novels with "Liebe" in their titles as well as novels that centrally focus on intersubjective erotic and emotional relationships. A number of major contemporary writers (Treichel, Walser, Kermani, Ortheil, Maron, Zaimoglu,Genazino) have written Liebesromane or novels in which significant sociohistorical questions are refracted through the love relationships of their protagonists. German film likewise has increasingly thematized love relationships under postromantic conditions, e.g. in the films of the Berlin school. Simultaneously, the development of both feminist and LGBTQ politics over the past decades has exploded the heteronormative discourses of desire in a waythat has both expanded and enriched the lovers'' discourse, while recent developments of urban (hetero)sexuality have expanded the previously available models of expressing erotic relationships in ways that are reminiscent of theutopian ending of Goethe''s first version of Stella. The present collection offers a wide-ranging set of essays on these developments. Peter Davies is Professor and Head of German at the University of Edinburgh. Helmut Schmitz is Reader in German at the University of Warwick.
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