Dr. Florian Lippert (1978) is Associate Professor in European Languages and Cultures at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. He is the author of Selbstreferenz in Literatur und Wissenschaft (Fink 2013) and has published numerous articles and chapters on self-reflexivity in literature, arts, media and politics.Dr. Marcel Schmid (1979) is Assistant Professor in Germanics at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Autopoiesis und Literatur (transcript 2016) and has co-edited a volume on the life reform movement: Die Literatur der Lebensreform (transcript 2016).

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionRead Thyself: Cultural Self-reflection and the Relevance of Literary “Self”-labelsFlorian Lippert and Marcel SchmidReflections on ReflectionAutoreferentiality, Autoreflexivity, SelftransparencyOliver Jahraus– 1600 –1 Cervantes’s and Unamuno’s MetalepsisHope Unraveled in Don Quixote: Self-Reflexivity and the Problem of Metalepsis in Cervantes, Unamuno, and BlochKonstantin Mierau– 1700 –2 Hamann’s Latent ParrhesiaIntertextual Exploration of the Self in Sokratische DenkwürdigkeitenAndrea Krauss3 Klopstock’s HistoriographyWritten out of Time: Inventing What Happened in KlopstockKristina Mendicino– 1800 –4 Kleist’s PerformativityTransmission KleistMarcel Schmid5 Mallarmé’s RhetoricAllegorical Self-Reflexivity in Mallarmé’s Sonnet en-xEvelyn Dueck6 Nietzsche’s Masks“Aber ich notire mich, für mich”: Nietzsche and Self-ReflectionBarbara Naumann– 1900 –7 Celan and the TimelessA Secret Echo Outside of Time: Paul Celan and the Autumn CrocusJason KavettLetter from Paul Celan to Gisèle Celan-LestrangeTranslated by Jason Kavett8 Pastior’s PoeticsThe Medium of PoetryJörg Kreienbrock– 2000 –9 Fforde’s IntermedialityBooks Without Borders: Self-Referentiality and Intermedial Games in Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next SeriesVera Alexander10 Autobiographies: Kureishi, Miller, Wiebe, Coetzee, and BechdelSelf-Reflexivity in Contemporary English Auto/BiographiesAnne Rüggemeier11 Brandt’s and Ja, Panik’s Auto-fiction“Only half of what I am saying is true:” Deconstructing Authorial Authority in Contemporary German LiteratureAntonius WeixlerIndex