The Short Story in German in the Twenty-First Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 216
• Offers readings of key contemporary trends and themes in the vibrant genre of short-story writing in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, with attention... Lees meer

My Shadow in Dachau

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 149
• The concentration camp at Dachau was the first established by the Nazis, opened shortly after Hitler came to power in 1933. It first held political pr... Lees meer

Goethe and the English-Speaking World

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 1
• New studies of both Goethe's relationship to the English-speaking world and its perception of Goethe and his works. Goethe's relations with the Englis... Lees meer

Enlightened War

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 98
• New essays exploring the relationship between warfare and Enlightenment thought both historically and in the present. Enlightened War investigates the... Lees meer

Constructing China: Kafka's Orientalist Discourse

Rolf J Goebel

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 1
• Kafka's interest in and use of China establish him as a principal commentator in Western discourse on the Orient. Goebel studies four representative w... Lees meer

Women Peasant Poets in Eighteenth-Century England, Scotland, and Germany

Susanne Kord

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 1
• First comparative study of an unlikely group of authors: 18th-century women peasants. This is the first comparative study of a highly unlikely group o... Lees meer

German and European Poetics After the Holocaust

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 100
• New essays on poetical and theoretical responses to the Holocaust's rupture of German and European civilization. Crisis presents chances for change an... Lees meer

The Faustian Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 130
• New essays revealing the enduring significance of the story made famous in the 1587 Faustbuch and providing insights into the forces that gave the six... Lees meer

Kafka for the Twenty-First Century

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 104
• Leading international Kafka scholars face the challenges Kafka poses in the new millennium. Franz Kafka's literary career began in the first decade of... Lees meer

Reading Mahler

Carl Niekerk

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 87
• Examines literary, philosophical, and cultural influences on Mahler's thought and work from the standpoint of the composer's position in German-Jewish... Lees meer

Marylin

Arthur Rundt

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 231
• Offers a European view of racial attitudes in the US during the era of the Harlem Renaissance and Jim Crow, with relevance to today's Black Lives Matt... Lees meer

Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism

Brad Prager

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 1
• Crosses disciplinary boundaries to explore German Romantic writing about visual experience and the interplay of text and image in Romantic epistemolog... Lees meer

German Culture in Nineteenth-Century America

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 1
• Essays examining the circulation and adaptation of German culture in the United States during the long 19th century. Building on recent trends in the ... Lees meer

The Guises of Modesty

Ferrel Rose

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 1
• Study of `artist novellas' of 19th-century German woman writer. One hundred years ago Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) enjoyed within German-spe... Lees meer

Family Secrets and the Contemporary German Novel

Elizabeth Snyder Hook

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 1
• A analysis of recent German novelistic treatments of the effect of the Nazi past on the relationships between parents and children. This book focuses ... Lees meer

In the Shadow of Empire

Malcolm Spencer

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 23
• The first book to consider together the responses of the great Austrian writers Musil, Roth, and Bachmann to the crisis of modernity. Austria was not ... Lees meer

Recasting German Identity

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 1
• A collection of essays offering a nuanced understanding of the complex question of identity in today's Germany. This collection of fifteen essays by s... Lees meer

A Companion to Wolfram's Parzival

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 63
• Up-to-date criticism and commentary on the greatest of the German courtly epics. Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival expands and transforms the Arthuria... Lees meer

A Companion to the Works of Robert Musil

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 15
• A fresh and extensive look at the works of the great Austrian novelist in the context of the German and Austrian culture of his time. A panel of autho... Lees meer

Encounters with Islam in German Literature and Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 53
• German-language writings about Islam not only reveal much about Islamic culture but also about the European "home" culture. Islam has been a rich topi... Lees meer

A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Heine

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 69
• A collection of new essays treating the most important aspects of the work of the most famous late Romantic, Heinrich Heine. As the most prominent Ger... Lees meer

Duino Elegies

Rainer Maria Rilke

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 233
• A new translation of Rilke's great work with close readings of each of the ten elegies elucidating how their poetic attributes constitute their meanin... Lees meer

Detectives, Dystopias, and Poplit

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 153
• The first broad treatment of German genre fiction, containing innovative new essays on a variety of genres and foregrounding concerns of gender, envir... Lees meer

A Companion to German Realism 1848-1900

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
• This volume of new essays by leading scholars treats a representative sampling of German realist prose from the period 1848 to 1900, the period of its... Lees meer