The Spell of Italy

Richard Block

• Hardcover | Engels | Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies
• A study of the lure of Italy in German culture from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Wearied by his life as an administrator at the Duke's cou... Lees meer

Words from Abroad

Katja Garloff

• Hardcover | Engels | Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies
• Examines the responses of German Jewish writers to the geographical and cultural displacement that is one of the lasting consequences of the Holocaust... Lees meer

Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography

Gerhard Richter

• Paperback | Engels | Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies
• Although Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is considered one of the most significant writers and theorists in twentieth-century Western culture, his enigmat... Lees meer

About Face

Richard T Gray

• Hardcover | Engels | Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies
• A critical history of physiognomic thought in German-speaking Europe that traces the roots of twentieth-century racial profiling to the Enlightenment.... Lees meer

Time's Visible Surface

Michael Gubser

• Hardcover | Engels | Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies
• Expands our understanding of Alois Riegl beyond his role as an art historian to a pivotal figure in cultural theory at large, while placing his intere... Lees meer

Disciplining Germany

Jaimey Fisher

• Hardcover | Engels | Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies
• A look at how the discussions, debates, and controversies in Germany about youth and reeducation after World War II helped Germans come to terms with ... Lees meer

The Myth of Power and the Self

Walter H Sokel

• Hardcover | Engels | Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies
• Franz Kafka (1883-1924) has come to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. The Myth of Power and the Self brings together Wa... Lees meer

In Babel's Shadow

Tuska Benes

• Hardcover | Engels | Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies
• A comprehensive cultural history of the language sciences in nineteenth-century Germany. In contrast to fields like anthropology, the history of lingu... Lees meer

After Images

Eric Downing

• Hardcover | Engels | Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies
• Examining literature and cultural theory of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this volume considers connections between photography, ... Lees meer

Fabricating Pleasure

Karin Wurst

• Hardcover | Engels | Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies
• Traces how the German middle class created a unique form of domestic culture that fused consumption with high culture in fashionable forms of entertai... Lees meer

Peripheral Visions

• Paperback | Engels | Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies
• An insightful overview of an important era in cinema. The title of this collection echoes Siegfried Kracauer's statement that the lavish movie palaces... Lees meer

History, Fiction, and Germany

Brent O Peterson

• Hardcover | Engels | Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies
• A study of the content, development, and transmission of German identity during the nineteenth century as Germany's national narrative took shape in h... Lees meer

Aby Waburg and Anti-Semitism

Charlotte Schoell-Glass

• Hardcover | Engels | Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies
• A landmark study on Aby Warburg's life and work, translated into English. In Aby Warburg and Anti-Semitism, Charlotte Schoell-Glass provides an unprec... Lees meer