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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 C... .... 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 ... .... 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 ... .... Learn More -
Anxious Journeys: Twenty-First-Century Travel Writing in German [Hardback]
Karin Baumgartner(Editor); Monika Shafi(Editor)
$90.00ISBN: 9781640140110
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: Volume 202
The rich contemporary literature of travel has been the focus of numerous recent publications in English that seek to understand how travel narratives, with their distinctive representations of identities, places, and cultures, res... .... Learn More -
Selected Works by J. M. R. Lenz: Plays, Stories, Essays, and Poems [Hardback]
J. M. R. Lenz(Author); Martin Wagner(Author); Ellwood Wiggins(Author)
$85.00ISBN: 9781571139931
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: Volume 199
Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751-1792) is, after Goethe, the most important writer of the German Sturm und Drang. Crucial in the reinvention of German literature through the reception of Shakespeare, his works contain a scathing c... .... Learn More -
Kafka after Kafka: Dialogical Engagement with His Works from the Holocaust to Postmodernism [Hardback]
Iris Bruce(Editor); Mark H. Gelber(Editor)
$90.00ISBN: 9781571139818
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: Volume 195
The topic of "Kafka after Kafka" is a fascinating one: the engagement of artists, philosophers, and critics in dialogical exchange with Kafka's works. The present collection of new essays highlights the engagement of less... .... Learn More -
Dimensions of Storytelling in German Literature and Beyond: "For once, telling it all from the beginning" [Hardback]
Kristy R. Boney(Editor); Jennifer Marston William(Editor)
$95.00ISBN: 9781640140400
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: Volume 197
While Walter Benjamin, in his famous essay "The Storyteller" (1936), lamented the decline of the storytelling tradition in the age of the modernist novel, Anna Seghers and other twentieth-century German writers went on to... .... Learn More -
Herder's Essay on Being: A Translation and Critical Approaches [Hardback]
John K. Noyes(Editor)
$99.00ISBN: 9781571139917
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: Volume 198
In recent years, Johann Gottfried Herder has been the focus of much interest in the English-speaking world. While he was long disregarded, current scholarship in both German and English is revisiting his importance as an early theo... .... Learn More -
Edinburgh German Yearbook 12: Repopulating the Eighteenth Century: Second-Tier Writing in the German Enlightenment [Hardback]
Michael Wood(Editor); Johannes Birgfeld(Editor)
$85.00ISBN: 9781640140196
Published by : Camden House
Series: Edinburgh German Yearbook
German literature and thought flourished in the eighteenth century, when a culture considered a European backwater came to assert worldwide significance. This was an age in which repeated attempts to reform German literary and phil... .... Learn More -
Stages of European Romanticism: Cultural Synchronicity across the Arts, 1798-1848 [Hardback]
Theodore Ziolkowski(Author)
$95.00ISBN: 9781640140424
Published by : Camden House
Romanticism was a truly European phenomenon, extending roughly from the French Revolution to the 1848 revolutions and embracing not only literature and drama but also music and visual arts. Because of Romanticism's vast scope, most... .... Learn More
