Writers and Politics in Germany, 1945-2008

Stuart Parkes

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture
• George Orwell said that all writing is political; but the writers of some nations and some periods are more political than others. German writers afte... Lees meer

Crossings - Kreuzengen

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture | nr. 43
• This wide-ranging and fascinating collection of essays by prominent scholars reflects Kreuzer's catholic interests. Lees meer

Arno Schmidt's Zettel's Traum

Volker Max Langbehn

• Hardcover | Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture
• The first comprehensive study in English of Schmidt's famous and controversial novel. Lees meer

Expressionist Film -- New Perspectives

• Hardcover | Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture
• New essays by leading scholars giving a new picture of the variety of German expressionist cinema. Lees meer

Reworking the German Past

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture
• Coming to terms with the past has been a preoccupation within German culture and German Studies since the Second World War. In addition, there has bee... Lees meer

A Companion to the Works of Hermann Hesse

• Hardcover | Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture
• New essays on the works and themes of Hesse, one of the most perennially relevant and widely-read German authors. Lees meer

A Companion to the Works of Friedrich Schiller

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture
• Friedrich Schiller is not merely one of Germany's foremost poets. He is also one of the major German contributors to world literature. The undying wor... Lees meer

A Companion to the Literature of German Expressionism

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture
• More than any other avant-garde movement, German Expressionism captures the aesthetic revolution of 20th-century modernity in all its contrasts and co... Lees meer

Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours

Rainer Rilke

• Hardcover | Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture
• A superb new (and complete) translation of Rilke's luminously lyrical early book of poems, with scholarly introduction and commentary. Lees meer

`the Novels of Erich Maria Remarque

Brian Murdoch, Brian O Murdoch

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture
• Erich Maria Remarque is a writer of great popularity who has rightly been described as a "chronicler of the twentieth century." He is both a German wr... Lees meer

A Companion to the Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture
• One of the most independent thinkers in German intellectual history, the Enlightenment author Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) contributed in deci... Lees meer

German Literary Culture at the Zero Hour

Stephen Brockmann

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture
• In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, German intellectuals and writers were forced to confront perhaps the most difficult complex of pro... Lees meer

My Shadow in Dachau

• Hardcover | Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture
• Poems by and biographies of inmates of the Dachau Concentration Camp, testimonies to the persistence of the humanity and creativity of the individual ... Lees meer

Innerfar and Bluff, or the Southern Cross

Gerhard Koepf

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture
• Two novels by the important contemporary German writer Gerhard Kopf. This book comprises two novels by the celebrated twentieth-century German author ... Lees meer

Traumatic Verses

Andrés Nader

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture
• Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Christianstadt, Dachau. The names of Nazi concentration camps evoke images of radical destitution. The atrocities we call the H... Lees meer

Emerging German-Language Novelists of the Twenty-First Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture
• After the international success in the 1990s of authors such as Bernhard Schlink, Marcel Beyer, and Thomas Brussig, an impressive number of new German... Lees meer

Kafka for the Twenty-First Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture
• Franz Kafka's literary career began in the first decade of the twentieth century and produced some of the most fascinating and influential works in al... Lees meer