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Achim Geisenhanslücke / Georg Mein (Hrsg.): Schriftkultur und
Schwellenkunde (Literalität und Liminalität 1). Bielefeld: Transcript, 2008a, ISBN 978-3-89942-776-9, 318 S.
Achim Geisenhanslücke / Georg Mein (Hrsg.): Grenzräume der
Schrift (Literalität und Liminalität 2). Bielefeld: Transcript, 2008b, ISBN 978-3-89942-777-6, 290 S.
Based on the metaphor of “liminality” in literary studies, this paper examines two different approaches to the literary genre of travelogues, using the example of Adelbert von Chamisso‟s Voyage Around the World (1836). One approach, with the help of autobiographical research, sheds light on the author-specific key motifs of “omnipotent time” and the process of aging. In the second approach, the focus shifts to the relationship between literature and natural science, i.e. to Chamisso‟s transitional position in the context of the historicization and dynamization of the sciences and humanities in the 19th century. Rather than thinking of “philology” and “cultural studies” as opposing methods, this article thus suggests a more in-tercessory position for the purpose of a fruitful study of travel literature.