The Acoustical Unconscious

Robert Ryder

• Paperback | Engels | Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies | nr. 32
• Is there an acoustical equivalent to Walter Benjamin's idea of the optical unconscious? In the 1930s, Benjamin was interested in how visual media expa... Lees meer

When Machines Play Chopin

Katherine Hirt

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies | nr. 8
• When Machines Play Chopin brings together music aesthetics, performance practices, and the history of automated musical instruments in nineteenth-cent... Lees meer

Before Photography

• Paperback | Engels | Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies | nr. 29
• Recent years have seen a wealth of new scholarship on the history of photography, cinema, digital media, and video games, yet less attention has been ... Lees meer

The Happy Burden of History

Andrew S Bergerson, K Scott Baker, Clancy Martin, Steve Ostovich

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies | nr. 9
• Germans are often accused of failing to take responsibility for Nazi crimes, but what precisely should ordinary people do differently? Indeed, scholar... Lees meer

W. G. Sebald

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies | nr. 1
• The novelist, poet, and essayist W. G. Sebald (1944 - 2001) was perhaps the most original German writer of the last decade of the 20th century ("Die A... Lees meer

Tales That Touch

• Paperback | Engels | Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies | nr. 33
• Cultural texts born out of migration frequently defy easy categorization as they cross borders, languages, histories, and media in unpredictable ways.... Lees meer

Reproducing Enlightenment: Paradoxes in the Life of the Body Politic

Diana K Reese

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies | nr. 5
• Written at the crossroads of aesthetics and politics, Reproducing Enlightenment: Paradoxes of the Body Politic interrogates the abstraction of the bea... Lees meer

Violent Waters: Literary Border Crossings in a Global Age

Alexandra Campana

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies | nr. 27
• The experience of witnessing and undertaking border crossings has become a pillar of the contemporary human condition. In order to respond to our glob... Lees meer

Domestic Disputes

Necia Chronister

• Paperback | Engels | Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies | nr. 28
• Domestic Disputes is the first monograph in German studies to offer a critical examination of the home ownership crisis in the former East Germany tha... Lees meer

Victims and Perpetrators: 1933-1945

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies | nr. 2
• This volume examines the politics of history and memory in Germany today through a review and analysis of seminal developments in the current discours... Lees meer

Kulturconfusão - On German-Brazilian Interculturalities

• Paperback | Engels | Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies | nr. 19
• The analyses of German and Brazilian cultures found in this book offer a much-needed rethinking of the intercultural paradigm for the humanities and l... Lees meer

The Draw of the Alps

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies | nr. 36
• The Alps have exerted a hold over the German cultural imagination throughout the modern period, enthralling writers, artists, philosophers, scientists... Lees meer

W.G. Sebald's Hybrid Poetics

Lynn L Wolff

• Paperback | Engels | Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies | nr. 14
• This book offers a new critical perspective on the perpetual problem of literature's relationship to reality and in particular on the sustained tensio... Lees meer

Performing Knowledge, 1750-1850

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies | nr. 18
• The period between 1750 and 1850 was a time when knowledge and its modes of transmission were reconsidered and reworked in fundamental ways. Social an... Lees meer

Myth, Matriarchy and Modernity

Peter Davies

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies | nr. 7
• This study explores the prevalence in German culture of myths about ancient matriarchal societies, discussing their presence in left and right wing po... Lees meer

Memory Matters

Caroline Schaumann

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies | nr. 4
• Memory Matters juxtaposes in tripartite structure texts by a child of German bystanders (Wolf), an Austrian-Jewish child-survivor (Klüger), a daughter... Lees meer

Rethinking Emotion

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies | nr. 15
• What are emotions, where do they originate and how are they brought into being? While from antiquity to early modernity, affects or passions were most... Lees meer

Visualizing the Past

Kathrin Maurer

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies | nr. 13
• Visual media had a decisive impact on how the past was perceived in historicist culture in nineteenth-century Germany. The panorama, photography, and ... Lees meer

Market Strategies and German Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies | nr. 26
• Building upon recent German Studies research addressing the industrialization of printing, the expansion of publication venues, new publication format... Lees meer

German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies | nr. 17
• In the last few decades, the phrase "spatial turn" has received increased attention in German Studies, inspired by developments within the discipline ... Lees meer

Complicity, Censorship and Criticism

Sara Jones

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies | nr. 10
• This study develops an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of the cultural history of the German Democratic Republic, examining the interaction... Lees meer

Revolutionary Subjects

Jamie H Trnka

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies | nr. 16
• Revolutionary Subjects explores the literary and cultural significance of Cold War solidarities and offers insight into a substantial and under-analyz... Lees meer

Germans Going Global

Anke S Biendarra

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies | nr. 12
• Germans Going Global is the first monograph in English to address in depth the interrelatedness between contemporary German literature and globalizati... Lees meer

Women Writing War

• Paperback | Engels | Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies | nr. 24
• Recent scholarship has broadened definitions of war and shifted from the narrow focus on battles and power struggles to include narratives of the home... Lees meer