Editorial Note – Crossing the Frontier
Editorial Note – Crossing the Frontier

Summary/Abstract: For almost a century “crossing the frontier” has been an almost omnipresent metaphor in poetic and intellectual life. That should not perhaps astonish us in the aftermath of a war that first destroyed the frontiers dividing Europe and then drew new ones in the devastated continent. Frontiers and the states they enclosed could hardly seem so “natural” in this world of new maps.

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