Was ist ein Brief?

M. I. Matthews-Schlinzig / C. Socha: Von einfachen Fragen, oder: Ein Brief zur Einführung – I. Konzepte des Briefes / Conceptualizing letters – M. Sinding: Letterier: categories, genres, and epistolarity – N. Cronk: Generic instability in Voltaire’s correspondence: When is a letter not a letter? – R. Vellusig: Die Poesie des Briefes. Eine literaturanthropologische Skizze – I. Kording: Epistolarisches. Die achtfache Relationalität des Briefes – J. Strobel: Welchen Erkenntnisgewinn versprechen digitale Briefeditionen? – II. Ein Medium im Wandel / A changing medium – G. Egan: Epistolary valediction in Johnson and Thrale’s correspondence – E. Harper: A curious culture of letter writing – J. Gillen: ‘I should have wrote a letter tonight’: a Literacy Studies perspective on the Edwardian postcard – A. Scott: Letters 2.0? Linguistic insights into the extent to which social media are a substitute for personal letters – E. de Vries: Letters in/on transition: neo-epistolarity, nostalgia, and new media – III. Schreibkulturen / Cultures of writing – P. Reinard: Briefe auf Papyri und Ostraka. Bemerkungen zur quellenkritischen Auswertung in der althistorischen Forschung – L. Hang Tsui: Calligraphic letters as precious objects in Chinese history – L. Vosding: Gifts from the convent: the letters of the Benedictine Nuns at Lüne as the material manifestation of spiritual care – M. I. Matthews-Schlinzig: Collaboration and imagination in letters between parents and their children: The Herder family correspondence 1788–89