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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 -
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 -
German Jewish Literature after 1990 [Hardback]
Katja Garloff(Editor); Agnes Mueller(Editor)
$95.00ISBN: 9781640140219
Published by : Camden House
Series: Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature, Culture & Thought
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. Thi... .... Learn More -
Nexus 4: Essays in German Jewish Studies [Hardback]
William Collins Donahue(Editor); Martha B. Helfer(Editor)
$85.00ISBN: 9781571132949
Published by : Camden House
Series: Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies
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 fir... .... Learn More -
Edinburgh German Yearbook 10: Queering German Culture [Hardback]
Leanne Dawson(Editor)
$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, volu... .... Learn More
