Abstrakt
The chapter presents the objective, outlines the theoretical basis, establishes and reflects at the meta level the methodology of the Handbook of German Literature of Prague and the Czech Lands. The "Handbook of the German Literature of Prague and the Czech Lands" provides a comprehensive overview of the literature of a Central European region and its development since the Enlightenment.
In doing so, previous conceptualizations, which i.a. originated from a strict separation of the Prague from the so-called Sudeten German literature, are overcome. Rather, the handbook offers a transcultural and regional re-localization of the German-language literature of the Czech lands in the complex sphere of influence and tension between German, Jewish, Czech and Habsburg literature and culture.