A Companion to the Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 72
• New essays providing a comprehensive view of the pathbreaking dramatist and theorist Lessing. One of the most independent thinkers in German intellect... 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

German Literary Culture at the Zero Hour

Stephen Brockmann

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 37
• Examines the intense intellectual debates in immediate postwar Germany, often conducted in literature or literary discourse. In the immediate aftermat... Lees meer

Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

Jane V Curran

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 1
• The first detailed reader's commentary on one of the seminal works of world literature. Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre is commonly acknowledged t... Lees meer

Men Viewing Women as Art Objects

Christoph Schweitzer

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 1
• Varied images of women studied in a variety of German texts as a springboard for plot or character. A man looks at the portrait of a woman and then se... Lees meer

Subversive Sublimities

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 1
• This anthology of critical essays pursues a field of scholarship that has only recently caught fire: the dark side of the German Enlightenment. The mo... Lees meer

New Approaches to Theodor Fontane

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 1
• New essays on the leading German novelist of the late 19th century, Theodor Fontane, in the light of recent literary theories. This collection of essa... Lees meer

Johann Hellwig's Die Nymphe Noris (1650)

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 1
• Definitive text of important prose eclogue, Baroque German's contribution to western literary genres. Prose eclogue, invented by Martin Opitz and perf... Lees meer

Weimar Correspondence

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 1
• Edition of the correspondence of Friedrich Tieck, the 19th-century German sculptor, giving personal accounts of Schlegel, de Staël, and the Goethe cir... Lees meer

Fritz Lang's Metropolis

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 1
• A collection of essays -- early seminal works as well as freshinterpretations -- on the famous German expressionist film, Metropolis. Fritz Lang's cla... Lees meer

Heiner Müller's Democratic Theater

Michael Wood

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 180
• The East German playwright Heiner Müller (1929-1995) is one of the most influential European dramatists and theater directors since Brecht. While crit... Lees meer

Adalbert Stifter's Late Prose

Helena Ragg-Kirby

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 1
• Provides a view of the late Stifter as a forerunner of twentieth-century modernism. Adalbert Stifter has always been viewed as a natural heir to the G... 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

A Companion to the Works of Thomas Mann

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 34
• Sixteen new, carefully focused essays on the prose works of one of the great writers of modernity. Thomas Mann is among the greatest of German prose w... Lees meer

Writing to Change the World

Marike Janzen

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 187
• In the twentieth century, leftist authors around the world understood their writing as an act of solidarity, but their common project was obscured by ... Lees meer

Freud's Theory and Its Use in Literary and Cultural Studies

Henk de Berg

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 1
• A genuinely accessible introduction to Freud's theory and its application to literary and cultural studies. Few figures have had as much influence on ... Lees meer

The Rediscovered Writings of Veza Canetti

Julian Preece

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 5
• A fresh, nuanced view of Veza Canetti's literary career and its relationship to that of her famous husband. The Viennese playwright, novelist, and sho... Lees meer

Contested Selves

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 220
• In recent decades, life writing has exploded in popularity: memoirs that focus on traumatic experiences now constitute the largest growth sector in bo... Lees meer

The Fortunes of Everyman in Twentieth-Century German Drama

Brian Murdoch

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 227
• Death comes to everyone, and in the late-medieval morality play of Everyman the familiar skeleton forces the universalized central figure to come to t... Lees meer

Emerging German-Language Novelists of the Twenty-First Century

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 105
• Presents fifteen new German-language novelists and a close reading of an exemplary work of each for academics and the general reader alike. After the ... Lees meer

Marriage, Gender, and Desire in Early Enlightenment German Comedy

Edward T Potter

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 112
• Reveals eighteenth-century German comedies' inherent resistance -- through their depiction of alternative gender roles and sexual behavior -- to the e... Lees meer

Representations of Flight and Expulsion in East German Prose Works

William Niven

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 150
• It is by now almost a cliché that the flight and expulsion of Germans from east-central Europe at the end of the Second World War was a taboo topic in... Lees meer

Princes of the Trenches

Ann Linder

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 1
• Examination of German literature of the First World War, its themes and underlying vision, and examination of how it differs from the English view of ... Lees meer

Pietism in Petticoats and Other Comedies

Luise Adelgunde Gottsched, Thomas Kerth, John R Russell

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture | nr. 1
• First English translation of Gottsched's five original comedies. Luise Adelgunde Gottsched (1713-1762), poet, essayist, translator, and playwright, wa... Lees meer