German Languages & Cultures

ISBN: 9781906540418
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
From Thomas More onwards, writers of utopias have constructed alternative models of society as a way of commenting critically on existing social orders. In the utopian alternative, the sex-gender system of the contemporary society may be either... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781906540951
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: Cultural Studies and the Symbolic
Volume: 4
Published by Maney on behalf of the Centre for Intercultural Studies, Department of German Language and Literature, University of Glasgow.

Inaugurated with a collection of ‘in... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781906540906
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
In his new book, Walker offers a radical reassessment of the German realist novel in the nineteenth century. Especially in the English- speaking world, German narrative realism has persistently been interpreted as the literary expression of an ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975257
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: Publications of the English Goethe Society
A special double issue of Publications of the English Goethe
Society to celebrate the 70th birthday of Professor Martin
Swales (UCL, UK)


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ISBN: 9781907625046
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
That a symbolic object or work of art participates in what it signifies, as a part within a whole, was a controversial claim discussed with particular intensity in the wake of Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Judgment. It informe... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975905
Published by : Legenda
Series: Germanic Literatures
Volume: 2
Why do queer bachelors and homosexual desire haunt the works of the German writer W. G. Sebald (1944-2001)? In a series of readings of Sebald’s major texts, from ‘After Nature’ to ‘Austerlitz’, Helen ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975899
Published by : Legenda
Series: Germanic Literatures
Volume: 3
Goethe's ideas on colour and imagery crossed many borderlines: those of artistic processes and philosophical aesthetics, art history and colour theory, together with the science of perception. This investigation into his writings ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975561
Published by : Legenda
Series: Germanic Literatures
Volume: 1
The life of the bilingual writer Yvan Goll (1891-1950) was one of perpetual experimentation and self-renewal. In the first study to treat Goll’s whole literary career, Robert Vilain explores the full range of his poetry, nov... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907747977
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, philosophy and theology come under increasing pressure owing to the emergence of the modern sciences. The collection Gott und Welt is Goethe’s poetic contribution to this conflict,... .... Learn More