The third volume examines the ideas of the wholeness and divisibility of bodies which have been given since ancient times. Anatomy provides the preconditions for visualising both the internal and the external constitution of both the textual corpus and the natural body using analysis and anatomia as methodological tools.

Sandra Pott is a fellow in the Emmy Noether Program of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and is working at the Institute of Germanic Studies at the University of London.

Lutz Danneberg is Professor for the Study of Modern German Literature in Berlin.

Jörg Schönert and Friedrich Vollhardt have chairs for the Study of Modern German Literature in Hamburg and Giessen.