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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: 8
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 theHolocaust's singul... .... Learn More -
The Fortunes of Everyman in Twentieth-Century German Drama: War, Death, Morality [Hardback]
Brian O 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 -
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: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: 226
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 -
Goethe Yearbook 28 [Hardback]
Patricia Anne Simpson(Editor); Birgit Tautz(Editor)
$85.00ISBN: 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 -
The Critical Writings of Ingeborg Bachmann [Hardback]
Ingeborg Bachmann(Author); Karen R. Achberger(Author); Karl Ivan Solibakke(Author); Karen R. Achberger(Editor); Karl Ivan Solibakke(Editor); Genese Grill(Translator); Karen R Karen R Achberger(Editor)
$99.00ISBN: 9781571139443
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: 224
The Austrian Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) is one of the most important postwar writers in German. Her work is enmeshed with the intellectual and cultural developments of the period: she was influenced by European modernism in the early 1950s, exp... .... Learn More -
The Myth of Abstraction: The Hidden Origins of Abstract Art in German Literature [Hardback]
Andrea Meyertholen(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781640141049
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: 223
Once upon a time (or more specifically, in 1911!) there was an artist named Wassily Kandinsky who created the world's first abstract artwork and forever altered the course of art history - or so the traditional story goes. A good story, but not th... .... Learn More -
The Tender Gaze: Compassionate Encounters on the German Screen, Page, and Stage [Hardback]
Muriel Cormican(Editor); Jennifer Marston William(Editor); John Blair(Contributor); Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien(Contributor); Nancy Nenno(Contributor)
$99.00ISBN: 9781640140745
Published by : Camden House
Series: Women and Gender in German Studies
Volume: 5
The gaze, understood as a way of looking at others that involves contemplation and the operation of power, has an extensive history of iterations such as the male gaze (Mulvey), the oppositional gaze (hooks), and the postcolonial gaze (Said). This... .... Learn More -
Anneliese's House [Hardback]
Lou Andreas-Salomé(Author); Frank Beck(Author); Raleigh Whitinger(Author); Frank Beck(Translator); Raleigh Whitinger(Translator); Frank Beck(Editor); Raleigh Whitinger(Editor)
$99.00ISBN: 9781640141018
Published by : Camden House
Series: Women and Gender in German Studies
Best known now for her involvement with Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud, Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861-1937) first became famous for fiction and criticism that engaged provocatively with "the woman question." In recent years, the author's ... .... Learn More -
Contested Selves: Life Writing and German Culture [Hardback]
Katja Herges(Editor); Elisabeth Krimmer(Editor); Laura Deiulio(Contributor); Beth Ann Muellner(Contributor); Julie Shoults(Contributor)
$99.00ISBN: 9781640141056
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: 220
In recent decades, life writing has exploded in popularity: memoirs that focus on traumatic experiences now constitute the largest growth sector in book publishing worldwide. But life writing is not only highly marketable; it also does important e... .... Learn More -
Politics and Truth in Hölderlin: Hyperion and the Choreographic Project of Modernity [Hardback]
Anthony Curtis Adler(Author); Peter Fenves(Foreword)
$99.00ISBN: 9781640141063
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: 222
While few would question the importance of Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) for the development of German idealism and twentieth-century literature, philosophy, and critical theory, Hölderlin scholarship remains largely inaccessible to th... .... Learn More
