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Genesis: The Making of Literary Works from Homer to Christa Wolf [Hardback]
T.J. Reed(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781640140820
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: Volume 213
This monumental study seeks the roots of great literary works and the processes by which they arose. It first illuminates the process from idea and inspiration through intention, formulation, revision (and sometimes frustration) to publication and... .... Learn More -
Goethe Yearbook 27 [Hardback]
Patricia Anne Simpson(Editor); Birgit Tautz(Editor)
$85.00ISBN: 9781640140615
Published by : Camden House
Series: Goethe Yearbook
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 27 features the yearbook's first F... .... Learn More -
German in the World: The Transnational and Global Contexts of German Studies [Hardback]
James Hodkinson(Editor); Benedict Schofield(Editor)
$90.00ISBN: 9781640140332
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: Volume 211
The study of German-language culture has been rapidly diversifying to express the vibrant multiplicity of what it is now possible to research, and teach, under the rubric of "German Studies." Responding to these developments, German i... .... Learn More -
Fractured Frontiers: The Exile Writing of Nazi Germany and Francoist Spain [Hardback]
Monica Jato(Author); John Klapper(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781640140516
Published by : Camden House
Writers opposed to National Socialism or Francoism have been considered either territorial exiles, who left their country, or "inner exiles," who did not. Those who stayed were initially accorded greater status, while those who left were... .... Learn More -
Writing the Self, Creating Community: German Women Authors and the Literary Sphere, 1750-1850 [Hardback]
Elisabeth Krimmer(Editor); Lauren Nossett(Editor)
$99.00ISBN: 9781640140783
Published by : Camden House
Series: Women and Gender in German Studies
Volume: Volume 4
Beginning in the 1770s, the German literary market experienced unprecedented growth. The enormous demand for reading materials that stimulated this burgeoning market created new opportunities for women writers. At the same time, they still faced n... .... Learn More -
The Shepherd, the Volk, and the Middle Class: Transformations of Pastoral in German-Language Writing, 1750-1850 [Hardback]
Elystan Griffiths(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781640140646
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: Volume 210
European pastoral tradition traces its roots to Theocritus's Idylls and Virgil's Eclogues, which portrayed herdsmen pursuing love and art. While the lives of shepherds, or of country folk generally, remain the ostensible subject of p... .... Learn More -
Transformation and Education in the Literature of the GDR [Hardback]
Jean E. Conacher(Author)
$85.00ISBN: 9781571139559
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: Volume 206
Perhaps never before has a state emphasized education to citizenship more than in the new nation founded in 1949 as the German Democratic Republic. For forty years, educational and cultural policy played a pivotal role in efforts to build and sust... .... Learn More -
The Faust Tales of Christoph Rosshirt: A Critical Edition with Commentary [Hardback]
J.M. van der Laan(Author); J. M. van der Laan(Author)
$110.00ISBN: 9781640140431
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: Volume 203
The Faust legend, which has come down to us most famously in Goethe's tragedy but also in countless other incarnations since the late sixteenth century, was first collected and presented as a cohesive narrative (in manuscript) by Christoph Rosshir... .... Learn More -
Fontane in the Twenty-First Century [Hardback]
John B. Lyon(Editor); Brian Tucker(Editor)
$90.00ISBN: 9781640140097
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: Volume 201
Theodor Fontane remains a canonical figure in German literature, the most important representative of poetic realism, and likely the best German-language novelist between Goethe and Mann, yet scholarly attention to his works often lags behind his ... .... Learn More -
A Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch [Hardback]
Graham Bartram(Editor); Sarah McGaughey(Editor); Galin Tihanov(Editor)
$95.00ISBN: 9781571135414
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: Volume 200
Hermann Broch (1886-1951) is best known for his two major modernist works, The Sleepwalkers (3 vols., 1930-1932) and The Death of Virgil (1945), which frame a lifetime of ethical, cultural, political, and social thought. A textile ma... .... Learn More
