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Anneliese's House [Hardback]
Lou Andreas-Salomé(Author); Frank Beck(Author); Raleigh Whitinger(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781640141018
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Best known now for her involvement with Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud, German writer Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861-1937) first became famous for fiction and criticism that engaged provocatively with "the women question." In recent years,... .... Learn More -
Goethe Yearbook 28 [Hardback]
Patricia Anne Simpson(Editor); Birgit Tautz(Editor)
$85.00ISBN: 9781640140950
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 28 features articles on several of... .... Learn More -
The Tender Gaze: Compassionate Encounters on the German Screen, Page, and Stage [Hardback]
Muriel Cormican(Editor); Jennifer Marston William(Editor)
$99.00ISBN: 9781640140745
Published by : Camden House
Series: Women and Gender in German Studies
Volume: 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 -
Transcultural Memory and European Identity in Contemporary German-Jewish Migrant Literature [Hardback]
Jessica Ortner(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781640140226
Published by : Camden House
Series: Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature, Culture & Thought
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 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: 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 the ... .... Learn More -
The Critical Writings of Ingeborg Bachmann [Hardback]
Ingeborg Bachmann(Author); Karen R. Achberger(Author); Karl Ivan Solibakke(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781571139443
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: 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 -
Contested Selves: Life Writing and German Culture [Hardback]
Katja Herges(Editor); Elisabeth Krimmer(Editor)
$99.00ISBN: 9781640141056
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: 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)
$99.00ISBN: 9781640141063
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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 -
Johannes Scherr: Mediating Culture in the German Nineteenth Century [Hardback]
Andrew Cusack(Author)
$90.00ISBN: 9781640140578
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: Volume 221
The German nineteenth century saw a boom in publishing and reading that created opportunities not only for Dichter, creators of great literature, but also for Schriftsteller, authors of the second rank. Among the latter were cultural... .... Learn More -
Günter Grass and the Genders of German Memory: From The Tin Drum to Peeling the Onion [Hardback]
Timothy B. Malchow(Author)
$95.00ISBN: 9781640140851
Published by : Camden House
Series: Culture and Power in German-Speaking Europe, 1918-1989
Volume: Volume 1
Günter Grass (1927-2015) was a fixture at the heart of German cultural life, a self-styled spokesman of the Kulturnation (cultural nation) who imagined it linking him to canonical male literary figures and their authority. He was also ... .... Learn More
