In the article, the authoress provides some insight into the problems and perspectives of a culture-sensitive approach to literary history. She first defines some key terms, before she deals with the more practical questions of a 'culture-sensitive' approach to literary history. She concentrates mainly on three areas: the challenge of coming to terms with ways of contextualisation, the problems posed by different conceptions of, for instance, periodisation and literary change, and the selection of the literary works that should be discussed. In a more positive approach, she also points to major directions of research and makes some suggestions for important themes of a 'culture-sensitive' literary history.
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