Standard: Literature. The Art, the Individual and Gunter Eich's Raspberry Vines

The standards of literary studies must be developed and continuously proven in dynamic and self reflexive hermeneutic interactions with literature itself. Hereby, it should be always remembered that literature is together with religion the most complex, most differentiated discourse of self-understanding and self-interpretation created by mankind. Therefore and first of all, literary studies must not neglect this standard: the genuine dignity of literature itself.