Was ist ein Brief? / What is a letter?

M. I. Matthews-Schlinzig / C. Socha: Einführung / Introduction - I. Konzepte des 'Briefs' / Conceptualizing letters - M. Sinding: Letterier: categories, genres, and epistolarity - R. Vellusig: Die Poesie des Briefes. Eine literaturanthropologische Skizze - I. Kording: Epistolarisches. Die achtfache Relationalität des Briefes - N. Cronk: Generic instability in Voltaire's correspondence: When is a letter not a letter? - J. Strobel: Welchen Erkenntnisgewinn versprechen digitale Briefeditionen? - II. Kulturerzeuger / Generators of culture - 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. Text und Objekt / Text and object - 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: Who is writing children's letters? Or A trip to the Herder family archive