Metamorphosis in Modern German Literature

Tara Beaney

• Hardcover | Engels | Germanic Literatures | nr. 9
• Radical bodily transformation can be shocking, terrifying and wonderful. But what makes it such compelling literary subject matter, and what place doe... Lees meer

Karoline von Günderrode

Joanna Raisbeck

• Hardcover | Engels | Germanic Literatures | nr. 26
• Karoline von Günderrode's biography - and in particular her early death - have long overshadowed an appreciation of her literary works. Closer attenti... Lees meer

Comedy and Trauma in Germany and Austria After 1945

Stephanie Bird

• Paperback | Engels | Germanic Literatures | nr. 10
• Comedy is often held to be incompatible with trauma and suffering; it triggers anxiety and moral disquiet around the pleasure we take in reading or wa... Lees meer

Structures of Subjugation in Dutch Literature

Judit Gera

• Hardcover | Engels | Germanic Literatures | nr. 12
• This book examines both classic and less-known works of Dutch literature from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. Its starting-point is that ... Lees meer

Alfred Döblin

Robert Craig

• Hardcover | Engels | Germanic Literatures | nr. 20
• 'If you're satisfied with yourself, beware of Döblin.' It was with this temptation for brave souls that Günter Grass closed his tribute on the tenth a... Lees meer

Foreign Parts

Richard Dove

• Hardcover | Engels | Germanic Literatures | nr. 15
• Foreign Parts offers a case study in Anglo-German relations in the theatre. How British was the British theatre during and after the Second World War?... Lees meer

Law of Poetry

Charles Lewis

• Paperback | Engels | Germanic Literatures | nr. 18
• The place of Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) in European literature is assured, and his significance for the development of German philosophy widely a... Lees meer

Paul Celan's Unfinished Poetics

Thomas C Connolly

• Hardcover | Engels | Germanic Literatures | nr. 16
• Paul Celan (1920-1970) is perhaps the most widely read of modern German-language poets, and yet his reputation has been constructed on a small body of... Lees meer

Isak Dinesen Reading Søren Kierkegaard

Mads Bunch

• Paperback | Engels | Germanic Literatures | nr. 13
• Not only did Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen, 1885-1962) read the works of her fellow-countryman, the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), clo... Lees meer

The Law of Poetry

Charles Lewis

• Hardcover | Engels | Germanic Literatures | nr. 18
• The place of Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) in European literature is assured, and his significance for the development of German philosophy widely a... Lees meer

Encounters with Albion

Anthony Grenville

• Paperback | Engels | Germanic Literatures | nr. 17
• While much has been written about British attitudes to the Jewish refugees from Hitler who fled to this country after 1933, little attention has been ... Lees meer

Metamorphosis in Modern German Literature

Tara Beaney

• Paperback | Engels | Germanic Literatures | nr. 9
• Radical bodily transformation can be shocking, terrifying and wonderful. But what makes it such compelling literary subject matter, and what place doe... Lees meer

Poetry, Painting, Park

Franz R Kempf

• Paperback | Engels | Germanic Literatures | nr. 22
• Imbued with a pulsating energy that emanates from the sun, Claude Lorrain's landscape draws on the interplay of light and darkness to effect a 'living... Lees meer

Franz Grillparzer's Dramatic Heroines

Matthew McCarthy-Rechowicz

• Hardcover | Engels | Germanic Literatures | nr. 1
• Franz Grillparzer's (1791-1872) heroines - Sappho, Medea and Libussa among them - have engaged and intrigued audiences and readers since the nineteent... Lees meer

Writing Across Time in the Twelfth Century

Christoph J Pretzer

• Hardcover | Engels | Germanic Literatures | nr. 25
• The 12th century saw an explosion of interest in the Roman past by authors all over Europe, who were looking for historical templates they could use t... Lees meer

Georg Hermann

John Craig-Sharples

• Paperback | Engels | Germanic Literatures | nr. 19
• Following the success of his novel Jettchen Gebert (1906), Georg Hermann (1871-1943) became one of Germany's best-loved authors: Schnitzler called him... Lees meer

Comedy and Trauma in Germany and Austria after 1945

Stephanie Bird

• Hardcover | Engels | Germanic Literatures | nr. 10
• Comedy is often held to be incompatible with trauma and suffering; it triggers anxiety and moral disquiet around the pleasure we take in reading or wa... Lees meer

Childhood, Memory, and the Nation

Alexandra Lloyd

• Hardcover | Engels | Germanic Literatures | nr. 23
• In the 1990s and 2000s, at a time when newly-reunified Germany seemed to be turning towards its future, public debates were dominated by those who had... Lees meer

Paul Celan's Unfinished Poetics

Thomas C Connolly

• Paperback | Engels | Germanic Literatures | nr. 16
• Paul Celan (1920-1970) is perhaps the most widely read of modern German-language poets, and yet his reputation has been constructed on a small body of... Lees meer

Confrontational Readings

• Hardcover | Engels | Germanic Literatures | nr. 21
• Confrontational Readings explores the manifold relationships between neo-avant-garde literatures. In the areas represented in the study (Flanders, the... Lees meer

E.T.A. Hoffmann's Orient

Joanna Neilly

• Paperback | Engels | Germanic Literatures | nr. 11
• The German Romantics were fascinated by the Orient and its potential to inspire poetic creation. E.T.A. Hoffmann was no exception: across the wide ran... Lees meer

Georg Hermann

John Craig-Sharples

• Hardcover | Engels | Germanic Literatures | nr. 19
• Following the success of his novel Jettchen Gebert (1906), Georg Hermann (1871-1943) became one of Germany's best-loved authors: Schnitzler called him... Lees meer

Encounters with Albion

Anthony Grenville

• Hardcover | Engels | Germanic Literatures | nr. 17
• While much has been written about British attitudes to the Jewish refugees from Hitler who fled to this country after 1933, little attention has been ... Lees meer

Foreign Parts

Richard Dove

• Paperback | Engels | Germanic Literatures | nr. 15
• Foreign Parts offers a case study in Anglo-German relations in the theatre. How British was the British theatre during and after the Second World War?... Lees meer