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Wilhelm von Humboldt and Transcultural Communication in a Multicultural World: Translating Humanity [Hardback]
John Walker(Author)
$95.00ISBN: 9781571139757
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: 230
Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) is the progenitor of modern linguistics and the originator of the modern teaching and research university. However, his work has received remarkably little attention in the English-speaking world. Humboldt conceive... .... Learn More -
Transcultural Memory and European Identity in Contemporary German-Jewish Migrant Literature [Hardback]
Jessica Ortner(Author); Jessica Ortner Nielsen(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781640140226
Published by : Camden House
Series: Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature, Culture & Thought
Volume: 10
Preserving the memory of the Holocaust as a moral and ethical limit case is key to the European Union's attempt to construct a pan-European identity. But with the Eastern expansion of the EU, new member states have challenged the Holocaust's singu... .... Learn More -
The Wounded Self: Writing Illness in Twenty-First-Century German Literature [Paperback]
Nina Schmidt(Author)
$29.95ISBN: 9781640141346
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: 190
In the German-speaking world there has been a new wave - intensifying since 2007 - of autobiographically inspired writing on illness and disability, death and dying. Nina Schmidt's book takes this writing seriously as literature,examining how the ... .... Learn More -
Heinrich von Kleist: Literary and Philosophical Paradigms [Hardback]
Jeffrey L. High(Editor); Rebecca Stewart(Editor); Elaine Chen(Editor); Paul Michael Lützeler(Contributor); Gail K. Hart(Contributor)
$110.00ISBN: 9781640140967
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: 226
Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) was a rebel who upset canonization by employing his predecessors and contemporaries as what Steven Howe calls "inspirational foils." It was precisely a keen awareness of literary and philosophical traditio... .... Learn More -
Great Books by German Women in the Age of Emotion, 1770-1820 [Hardback]
Margaretmary Daley(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781640140974
Published by : Camden House
Series: Women and Gender in German Studies
Volume: 7
Literature written by women in German during the "Age of Goethe" was largely considered unworthy Trivialliteratur. Using insights from Gender Studies yet acknowledging the need for a literary canon, Great Books by German... .... Learn More -
The World as Metaphor in Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities: Possibility as Reality [Paperback]
Genese Grill(Author)
$29.95ISBN: 9781640141278
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: 127
Robert Musil, known to be a scientific and philosophical thinker, was committed to aesthetics as a process of experimental creation of an ever-shifting reality. Musil wanted, above all, to be a creative writer, and he obsessively engaged in almost... .... Learn More -
German Romance VII: Ulrich Fuetrer, Iban [Hardback]
Ulrich Fuetrer(Author); Joseph M. Sullivan(Editor); Joseph M. Sullivan(Translator)
$99.00ISBN: 9781843846215
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Arthurian Archives
Volume: 22
Composed in the 1480s by the Munich painter and writer Ulrich Fuetrer, Iban is the story of a young knight at King Arthur's court, who pursues adventure abroad, wins a land and its lady as his wife, loses both through his immaturity and neg... .... Learn More -
In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Jewish-Communist Writers in East Germany [Hardback]
Thomas C. Fox(Author)
$95.00ISBN: 9781640140622
Published by : Camden House
Series: Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature, Culture & Thought
Volume: 8
This study investigates the negotiation of Jewish-German-Communist identity in post-Holocaust Germany, specifically East Germany. After an introduction to the political-historical context, it highlights the conflicted writings of six East German J... .... Learn More -
The Fortunes of Everyman in Twentieth-Century German Drama: War, Death, Morality [Hardback]
Brian Murdoch(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781640141179
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: 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 terms with this. Only his inner resources, in the forms of Good Deeds and Knowledge, ensure... .... Learn More -
Goethe Yearbook 28 [Hardback]
Patricia Anne Simpson(Editor); Birgit Tautz(Editor)
$90.00ISBN: 9781640140950
Published by : Camden House
Series: Goethe Yearbook
Volume: 28
The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, showcasing North American and international scholarship on Goethe and other authors and aspects of the Goethezeit. Volume 28 features articles on several of... .... Learn More
