Transformations of the German Novel

Monique Rinere

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 14
• At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the German literary establishment considered the novel the contemptible entertainment of the uneducated. B... Lees meer

Contemporary Writing and the Politics of Space

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 26
• This collective volume explores the 'spatial turn' in literary and cultural studies and brings together studies of contemporary English-speaking liter... Lees meer

Imagining the City, Volume 1

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 7
• Urban living presents both challenges and opportunities for individuals and societies in their attempts to maintain and determine their cultural ident... Lees meer

Memory Traces

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 5
• This essay collection examines the dynamics of memory organization and the way it varies among different media and modes of discourse in post-unificat... Lees meer

Constructions of Conflict; Transmitting Memories of the Past in European Historiography, Culture and Media

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 15
• This collection of essays explores the ways in which memories of social, political and military conflicts have been transmitted by twentieth- and twen... Lees meer

Alternative Worlds

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 22
• This book explores the dreams, plans and hopes as well as the nightmares and fears that are an integral part of alternative thinking in the Western he... Lees meer

German Literature, History and the Nation

• Paperback | Duits | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 2
• This is the second of three volumes based on papers given at the 'Fragile Tradition' conference in Cambridge, 2002. Together they provide a conspectus... Lees meer

Science, Technology and the German Cultural Imagination

• Paperback | Duits | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 3
• This is the third and final volume of papers given at the 'Fragile Tradition' conference in Cambridge, 2002. Together these volumes provide a conspect... Lees meer

Memories of 1968

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 16
• The 1968 events were profoundly international in character, transcending any one national context and interacting with other movements across the worl... Lees meer

When Novels Perform History; Dramatizing the Past in Australian and Canadian Literature

Rebecca Waese

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 28
• How do you bring history alive? This book explores the use of dramatic modes - such as melodrama, metatheatre, and immersion - to bring immediacy and ... Lees meer

Cultural Memory and Historical Consciousness in the German-Speaking World Since 1500

• Paperback | Duits | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 1
• This is the first of three volumes based on papers given at the conference 'The Fragile Tradition: The German Cultural Imagination Since 1500' in Camb... Lees meer

Playing False; Representations of Betrayal

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 20
• Betrayal has never gone out of fashion. It is a ubiquitous phenomenon - from antiquity to the present, from the realm of politics to the most personal... Lees meer

Romanticism, Reaction and Revolution

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 30
• This diverse volume focuses on British reactions to, and representations of, Spanish affairs during the lively period following the Peninsular War (18... Lees meer

Imagining the City, Volume 2

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 8
• The urban spaces we inhabit today have been moulded by a combination of historical forces - by social and economic processes, by the specific designs ... Lees meer

Cultural Transformations of the Public Sphere

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 24
• The last decade has seen renewed interest in political theories of the public sphere, reacting to new challenges posed by globalization, communication... Lees meer

"Voelkisch" Writers and National Socialism

Guy Tourlamain

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 21
• This book follows the work of a group of right-wing nationalist writers from 1890 to 1960, whose writings both paved the way for the rise of Nazism an... Lees meer

Vladimir Nabokov and the Ideological Aesthetic

Udith Dematagoda

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 29
• The perception of Nabokov as an apolitical writer is one which the author encouraged in the latter part of his career, despite having lived through th... Lees meer

The Story of an Architect King

Renata Tyszczuk

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 6
• In this book the author explores the representational strategies of the modern period and their relation to political life through the story of Stanis... Lees meer

The Men with Broken Faces

Marjorie Gehrhardt

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 25
• This book explores for the first time the individual and collective significance of First World War facially disfigured combatants, with a special foc... Lees meer

Other People's Pain

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 18
• How do we approach other people's pain? This question is of crucial importance to the humanities, particularly literary and cultural studies, whenever... Lees meer

Secret Sharers

Anthony Fothergill

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 4
• This is the first book-length account of Joseph Conrad's reception in Germany, a virtually unresearched area of Conrad studies. It demonstrates that C... Lees meer

Constellations of Reading

Carlo Salzani

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 13
• How to read Walter Benjamin today? This book argues that the proper way is through an approach which recognizes and respects his own peculiar theoriza... Lees meer

Zeitgeschichten: Die Berliner Uebergangsjahre

Ulrike Zitzlsperger

• Paperback | Duits | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 11
• Berlin spielt seit 1989 bei den Diskussionen um das Thema Metropole eine besondere Rolle. Die mit dem Fall der Mauer einsetzenden Übergangsjahre waren... Lees meer

Biological Discourses

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 27
• In the wake of the Darwin Anniversary celebrations in 2009, this volume reaches beyond the Darwinian legacy and explores the range and diversity of in... Lees meer