Christian Felix Weiße the Translator

Tom Zille

• Paperback | Engels | Institute of Modern Languages Research
• Christian Felix Weiße (1726-1804) is best known as a dramatist and influential children's writer of the Enlightenment period. This is the first book t... Lees meer

Technology's Pulse: Essays on Rhythm in German Modernism

Michael Cowan

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• , in particular, witnessed numerous efforts to define, discipline or 'liberate' temporal experience. Within this broader framework of thinking about t... Lees meer

Opposing Patriarchy

Sara Delmedico

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• Shifts in state boundaries and socio-economic structures deeply affected the political landscape in nineteenth-century Italy, coinciding with changes ... Lees meer

Terrorism, Italian Style

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• The legacy of Italy's experience of political violence and terrorism in the anni di piombo ('years of lead', c. 1969-83) continues to exercise the Ita... Lees meer

Mit Worten Lûter Unde Glanz: Metapoetics in Konrad Von Würzburg's Trojanerkrieg

Esther Laufer

• Hardcover | Engels | Institute of Modern Languages Research
• How can you fathom a bottomless abyss? How can you capture ineffable beauty in words? How do you narrate the master of all stories? These are the chal... Lees meer

Poets as Readers in Nineteenth-Century France

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• This volume of essays focuses on how poets approach reading as a notion and a practice that both inform their writing and their relationship to their ... Lees meer

Word on the Street

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• At the site of everyday social interaction, the street has always provided a source of inspiration for writers, artists and musicians. It has also bec... Lees meer

From North Africa to France

Isabel Hollis-Touré

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• Over the past four decades immigration to France from the Francophone countries of North Africa (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia) has changed in characte... Lees meer

Women Political Prisoners in Germany: Narratives of Self and Captivity, 1915-91

Kim Richmond

• Hardcover | Engels | Institute of Modern Languages Research
• One of the few major enquiries into women's narratives of political incarceration, this volume examines first-person accounts written against a backdr... Lees meer

A Critical Encounter

Zoe Angeli

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• Few terms have been more prone and resistant to definition than the literary and the real . Bringing them together, under the contrivance of the Liter... Lees meer

Society and Its Outsiders in the Novels of Jakob Wassermann

Katharina Volckmer

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• Society and its Outsiders in the Novels of Jakob Wassermann takes a fresh look at Wassermann's depiction of society and its mechanisms of exclusion, s... Lees meer

Possible Worlds

Rebecca Maria Dewald

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• 'In this well-conceived study, Rebecca Maria Dewald delves into the hierarchy between the perception of original texts and that of translations, and e... Lees meer

Freethinkers, Libertines and 'Schwärmer'

K F Hilliard

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• Religion mattered in the eighteenth century and has not ceased to matter since. How German writers responded to the crisis of orthodox forms of belief... Lees meer

Urban Microcosms 1789-1940

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• Urban microcosms are small-scale communal spaces that are integral to, or integrated into, city life. Some, such as railway stations or department sto... Lees meer

Constance Pascal (1877-1937)

Felicia Gordon

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• Constance Pascal's career in French psychiatry from 1908 to 1937 exemplifies the opportunities open to women in the French Third Republic as well as t... Lees meer

Vicissitudes

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• The legacy of Italy's experience of political violence and terrorism in the anni di piombo ('years of lead', c. 1969-83) continues to exercise the Ita... Lees meer

The Fevered Novel from Balzac to Bernanos

Francesco Manzini

• Paperback | Engels | Institute of Modern Languages Research
• This book examines a corpus of frenetic novels - by Balzac, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Zola, Huysmans, Bloy and Bernanos - that foreground the motif of fever... Lees meer

Writing and Muslim Identity

Frauke Matthes

• Paperback | Engels | Institute of Modern Languages Research
• Writing and Muslim Identity is a comparative study of Islam in contemporary German- and English-language literature. At a time when the non-Islamic wo... Lees meer

Intercultural and Intertextual Encounters in Michael Roes's Travel Fiction

Seiriol Dafydd

• Hardcover | Engels | Institute of Modern Languages Research
• This book investigates a specific aspect of travel literature - the fictional travel novel - and one practitioner of that sub-genre - the contemporary... Lees meer