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German Jewish Literature after 1990 [Hardback]
Katja Garloff(Editor); Agnes Mueller(Editor); Agnes Mueller(Contributor); Andree Michaelis-König(Contributor); Caspar Battegay(Contributor)
$95.00ISBN: 9781640140219
Published by : Camden House
Series: Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature, Culture & Thought
Volume: 5
The 1990 reunification of Germany gave rise to a new generation of writers who write in German, identify as both German and Jewish, and often also sustain cultural affiliations with places such as Russia, Azerbaijan, or Israel. This edited volume ... .... Learn More -
Transatlantic German Studies: Testimonies to the Profession [Hardback]
Paul Michael Lützeler(Editor); Peter Höyng(Editor); Andreas Huyssen(Contributor); Azade Seyhan(Contributor); Claire Kramsch(Contributor); Paul Michael Luetzeler(Editor); Peter Hoeyng(Editor)
$90.00ISBN: 9781640140127
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: 193
The decisive contribution of the exile generation of the 1930s and '40s to German Studies in the United States is well known. The present volume carries the story forward to the next generation(s), giving voice to scholars from the US and overseas... .... Learn More -
Nexus 4: Essays in German Jewish Studies [Hardback]
William Collins Donahue(Editor); Martha B. Helfer(Editor); William C Donahue(Editor); Antje Diedrich(Contributor); Brad Prager(Contributor); Donna Stonecipher(Contributor)
$85.00ISBN: 9781571132949
Published by : Camden House
Series: Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies
Volume: 4
Nexus is the official publication of the biennial German Jewish Studies Workshop, which was inaugurated at Duke University in 2009 and is now held at the University of Notre Dame. Together, Nexus and the Workshop constitute the first... .... Learn More -
Business Rhetoric in German Novels: From Buddenbrooks to the Global Corporation [Hardback]
Ernest Schonfield(Author)
$85.00ISBN: 9781571139832
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: 191
Throughout the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first, Germany has maintained its position as one of the world's largest economies. In the literature of this period, business is often depicted as a performance that requires great linguis... .... Learn More -
The Wounded Self: Writing Illness in Twenty-First-Century German Literature [Hardback]
Nina Schmidt(Author)
$90.00ISBN: 9781640140165
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 -
Kurt Eisner: A Modern Life [Hardback]
Albert Earle Gurganus(Author)
$59.95ISBN: 9781640140158
Published by : Camden House
Series: German History in Context
At the end of the First World War, German Jewish journalist, theater critic, and political activist Kurt Eisner (1867-1919), just released from prison, led a nonviolent revolution in Munich that deposed the monarchy and established the Bavarian Re... .... Learn More -
Edinburgh German Yearbook 10: Queering German Culture [Hardback]
Leanne Dawson(Editor); Cyd Sturgess(Contributor); Gary Schmidt(Contributor); John L. Plews(Contributor); Kyle Frackman(Contributor)
$85.00ISBN: 9781571139658
Published by : Camden House
Series: Edinburgh German Yearbook
The German-speaking lands have a long history of engagement, ranging from celebratory to horrific, with non-normative genders and sexualities, including through cultural output, language, and politics. Queering German Culture, volume 10 of ... .... Learn More -
Brecht, Turkish Theater, and Turkish-German Literature: Reception, Adaptation, and Innovation after 1960 [Hardback]
Ela E. Gezen(Author); Ela Ela Gezen(Author)
$85.00ISBN: 9781640140240
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: 188
Bertolt Brecht died in 1956, but his theory and practice has continued to shape debates about the politics of culture - not only in Germany, but in Turkey as well, where a new generation of intellectuals emerged during a period ofliberalization in... .... Learn More -
Tatort Germany: The Curious Case of German-Language Crime Fiction [Paperback]
Lynn M. Kutch(Editor); Todd Herzog(Editor); Angelika Baier(Contributor); Anita McChesney(Contributor); Carol Anne Costabile-Heming(Contributor)
$24.95ISBN: 9781640140264
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: 2540
Although George Bernard Shaw quipped that "the Germans lack talent for two things: revolution and crime novels," there is a long tradition of German crime fiction; it simply hasn't aligned itself with international trends. Duringthe 1920... .... Learn More -
Günter Grass and His Critics: From The Tin Drum to Crabwalk [Paperback]
Siegfried Mews(Author)
$34.95ISBN: 9781640140394
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
When the Swedish Academy announced that Günter Grass had been awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature, it singled out his first novel The Tin Drum (1959, English translation 1963) as a seminal work that had signaled thepostwar rebi... .... Learn More
