Improvisation as Art

Edgar Landgraf

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in German Studies
• Improvisation as Art traces how modernity's emphasis on inventiveness has changed the meaning of improvisation; and how the ideals and laws that led i... Lees meer

Ecologies of Writing

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in German Studies
• Drawing from case studies in 20th century German literature and theory, the contributors to this volume explore the multiple dimensions behind and alo... Lees meer

Interwar Salzburg

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in German Studies
• A long-overdue reassessment of post-1918 Salzburg as a distinct Austrian cultural hub that experimented in moving beyond war and empire into a modern,... Lees meer

Thomas Mann in English

David Horton

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in German Studies
• Thomas Mann owes his place in world literature to the dissemination of his works through translation. Indeed, it was the monumental success of the ori... Lees meer

Sissi's World

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in German Studies | nr. 22
• Sissi's World offers a transdisciplinary approach to the study of the Habsburg Empress Elisabeth of Austria. It investigates the myths, legends, and r... Lees meer

Figures of Natality

Joseph D O'Neil

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in German Studies
• Figures of Natality reads metaphors and narratives of birth in the age of Goethe (1770-1832) as indicators of the new, the unexpected, and the revolut... Lees meer

Readings in the Anthropocene

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in German Studies | nr. 18
• Readings in the Anthropocene brings together scholars from German Studies and beyond to interpret the German tradition of the last two hundred years f... Lees meer

Sissi's World

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in German Studies | nr. 22
• Sissi's World offers a transdisciplinary approach to the study of the Habsburg Empress Elisabeth of Austria. It investigates the myths, legends, and r... Lees meer

Modernism in Trieste

Salvatore Pappalardo

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in German Studies
• When we think about the process of European unification, our conversations inevitably ponder questions of economic cooperation and international polit... Lees meer

Thomas Mann in English

David Horton

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in German Studies
• Thomas Mann owes his place in world literature to the dissemination of his works through translation. Indeed, it was the monumental success of the ori... Lees meer

Figures of Natality

Joseph D O'Neil

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in German Studies | nr. 17
• Figures of Natality reads metaphors and narratives of birth in the age of Goethe (1770-1832) as indicators of the new, the unexpected, and the revolut... Lees meer

Theodor Fontane

Brian Tucker

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in German Studies
• What happens when fashionable forms of unserious speech prove to be contagious, when they adulterate and weaken communicative spheres that rely on hon... Lees meer

The German Picaro and Modernity

Bernhard Malkmus

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in German Studies
• The German Pícaro and Modernity reads the re-emergence of the picaresque narrative in twentieth-century German-language writing as an expression of mo... Lees meer

The Fontane Workshop

Petra S McGillen

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in German Studies | nr. 26
• With an innovative approach that combines material media history, media theory, and literary poetics, this book reconstructs the great German writer T... Lees meer

Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in German Studies
• The literary and scientific renaissance that struck Germany around 1800 is usually taken to be the cradle of contemporary humanism. Posthumanism in th... Lees meer

The Tragedy of Fatherhood

Silke-Maria Weineck

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in German Studies
• Theories of power have always been intertwined with theories of fatherhood: paternity is the oldest and most persistent metaphor of benign, legitimate... Lees meer

Stereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzler's Prose

Marie Kolkenbrock

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in German Studies | nr. 21
• What was the function of the invocation of destiny in the increasingly secularized era of turn-of-the-century Vienna? By exploring this question, Ster... Lees meer

France/Kafka

John T Hamilton

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in German Studies
• While his memory languished under Nazi censorship, Franz Kafka covertly circulated through occupied France and soon emerged as a cultural icon, read b... Lees meer

Ambiguous Aggression in German Realism and Beyond Flirtation, Passive Aggression, Domestic Violence

Barbara N Nagel

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in German Studies | nr. 29
• Our main words defining emotional states suggest that we have clarity about them: expressions like "love," "hatred," "anxiety," or "sorrow" seem clear... Lees meer

German Aesthetics

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in German Studies | nr. 16
• German Aesthetics provides English-speaking audiences with accessible explanations of fundamental concepts from the German tradition of philosophical ... Lees meer

Out of Place

John Lyon

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in German Studies
• In late nineteenth-century Germany, the onset of modernity transformed how people experienced place. In response to increased industrialization and ur... Lees meer

Beyond Discontent

Eckart Goebel

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in German Studies | nr. 4
• According to Freud's later works, we do not really feel well or free within civilization. Our discontent never disappears, and we shall never become c... Lees meer

Jane Eyre in German Lands

Lynne Tatlock

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in German Studies
• Lynne Tatlock examines the transmission, diffusion, and literary survival of Jane Eyre in the German-speaking territories and the significance and eff... Lees meer

France/Kafka

John T Hamilton

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in German Studies
• While his memory languished under Nazi censorship, Franz Kafka covertly circulated through occupied France and soon emerged as a cultural icon, read b... Lees meer