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Citation and Precedent
Conjunctions and Disjunctions of German Law and Literature
Av Thomas Oliver Beebee, Imke Meyer
Inbunden, 2011
2281 kr
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This book traces a history of the sometimes fraught relationship between German law and literature in the modern period, from Grimm to Schmitt. Among Western literatures, only the German-speaking countries can boast a list of world-class writers such as Goethe, Hoffmann, Kleist, Kafka, Schmitt, and …
Image in Outline
Reading Lou Andreas-Salomé
Av Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Imke Meyer
Inbunden, 2012
2119 kr
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Image in Outline introduces the reader to Lou Andreas-Salomé's significant engagement withmodern thought. Through detailed explorations of some of her major texts, Brinker-Gabler examinesAndreas-Salomé's contributions to contemporary discourses on meaning, perception, memory, andthe unconscious. …
Thomas Mann in English
A Study in Literary Translation
Häftad, 2016
479 kr
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Thomas Mann owes his place in world literature to the dissemination of his works through translation. Indeed, it was the monumental success of the original English translations that earned him the title of 'the greatest living man of letters' during his years in American exile (1938-52). This book …
Poet as Phenomenologist
Rilke and the New Poems
Häftad, 2016
479 kr
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The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New Poems opens up new perspectives on the relation between Rilke’s poetry and phenomenological philosophy, illustrating the ways in which poetry can offer an exceptional response to the philosophical problem of dualism. Drawing on the work of Husserl, …
Roma Voices in the German-Speaking World
Häftad, 2016
479 kr
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The Roma are Europe’s largest minority, and yet they remain one of the most misunderstood and underrepresented. Scholarship on the Roma in German-speaking countries has focused mostly on the portrayal of “Zigeuner/Gypsies” in literature by non-Roma and on persecution during the Nazi period. Rarely …
Stereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzler’s Prose
Five Psycho-Sociological Readings
Av Marie Kolkenbrock, Imke Meyer
Inbunden, 2018
2119 kr
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What was the function of the invocation of destiny in the increasingly secularized era of turn-of-the-century Vienna? By exploring this question, Stereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzler's Prose offers a new psycho-sociological perspective on the narrative works of Arthur Schnitzler. While …
Out of Place
German Realism, Displacement and Modernity
Häftad, 2016
641 kr
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In late nineteenth-century Germany, the onset of modernity transformed how people experienced place. In response to increased industrialization and urbanization, the expansion of international capitalism, and the extension of railway and other travel networks, the sense of being connected to a …
Goethe's Families of the Heart
Av Susan E. Gustafson, Imke Meyer
Häftad, 2017
641 kr
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Throughout his literary work Goethe portrays characters who defy and reject 18th and 19th century ideals of aristocratic and civil families, notions of heritage, assumptions about biological connections, expectations about heterosexuality, and legal mandates concerning marriage. The questions …
Figures of Natality
Reading the Political in the Age of Goethe
Av Joseph D. O’Neil, Imke Meyer
Häftad, 2018
592 kr
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Figures of Natality reads metaphors and narratives of birth in the age of Goethe (1770-1832) as indicators of the new, the unexpected, and the revolutionary. Using Hannah Arendt’s concept of natality, Joseph O’Neil argues that Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist see birth as challenging paradigms of …
Lever as Instrument of Reason
Technological Constructions of Knowledge around 1800
Av Jocelyn Holland, Imke Meyer
Inbunden, 2019
2119 kr
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The lever appears to be a very simple object, a tool used since ancient times for the most primitive of tasks: to lift and to balance. Why, then, were prominent intellectuals active around 1800 in areas as diverse as science, philosophy, and literature inspired to think and write about levers? In …
Staging West German Democracy
Governmental PR Films and the Democratic Imaginary, 1953-1963
Inbunden, 2019
2119 kr
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Staging West German Democracy examines how political “founding discourses” of the nascent Federal Republic (FRG) were reflected, reinforced, and actively manufactured by the Federal government in conjunction with the West German, state-controlled newsreel system, the Deutsche Wochenschau. By …
Kafka’s Stereoscopes
The Political Function of a Literary Style
Av Isak Winkel Holm, Imke Meyer
Inbunden, 2019
2119 kr
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In 1911, Franz Kafka encountered the Kaiser Panorama: a stereoscopic peep show offering an illusion of three-dimensional depth. After the experience, he began to emulate the apparatus in his literary sketches, developing a style we might call "stereoscopic," juxtaposing, like the optical …
Fontane Workshop
Manufacturing Realism in the Industrial Age of Print
Av Petra S. McGillen, Imke Meyer
Inbunden, 2019
2119 kr
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Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures (Awarded by the MLA)With an innovative approach that combines material media history, media theory, and literary poetics, this book reconstructs the great German writer Theodor Fontane's creative …
Building Socialism
Architecture and Urbanism in East German Literature, 1955-1973
Häftad, 2018
576 kr
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Building Socialism reveals how East German writers’ engagement with the rapidly changing built environment from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s constitutes an untold story about the emergence of literary experimentation in the post-War period. It breaks new ground by exploring the centrality of …
Ghostwriting
W. G. Sebald’s Poetics of History
Av Richard T. Gray, Imke Meyer
Häftad, 2019
576 kr
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Ghostwriting provides the first comprehensive analysis of the fictional prose narratives of one of contemporary Germany’s most recognized authors, the émigré writer W. G. Sebald. Examining Sebald’s well-known published texts in the context of largely unknown unpublished works, and informed by …
Ambiguous Aggression in German Realism and Beyond
Flirtation, Passive Aggression, Domestic Violence
Av Barbara N. Nagel, Imke Meyer
Inbunden, 2019
1632 kr
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Our main words defining emotional states suggest that we have clarity about them: expressions like "love," "hatred," "anxiety," or "sorrow" seem clear enough. The reality, however, tends to be more complicated. We are often faced with gestures and utterances that are difficult to interpret; we thus …
Stereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzler’s Prose
Five Psycho-Sociological Readings
Av Marie Kolkenbrock, Imke Meyer
Häftad, 2019
201 kr
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What was the function of the invocation of destiny in the increasingly secularized era of turn-of-the-century Vienna? By exploring this question, Stereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzler's Prose offers a new psycho-sociological perspective on the narrative works of Arthur Schnitzler. While …
Theodor Fontane
Irony and Avowal in a Post-Truth Age
Inbunden, 2021
552 kr
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What happens when fashionable forms of unserious speech prove to be contagious, when they adulterate and weaken communicative spheres that rely on honesty, trust, and sincerity? Demonstrating how the tension between irony and avowal constitutes a central conflict in Fontane’s works, this book …
Theodor Fontane
Irony and Avowal in a Post-Truth Age
Häftad, 2023
495 kr
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What happens when fashionable forms of unserious speech prove to be contagious, when they adulterate and weaken communicative spheres that rely on honesty, trust, and sincerity? Demonstrating how the tension between irony and avowal constitutes a central conflict in Fontane’s works, this book …
Staging West German Democracy
Governmental PR Films and the Democratic Imaginary, 1953-1963
Häftad, 2020
560 kr
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Staging West German Democracy examines how political “founding discourses” of the nascent Federal Republic (FRG) were reflected, reinforced, and actively manufactured by the Federal government in conjunction with the West German, state-controlled newsreel system, the Deutsche Wochenschau. By …
Grotesque Visions
The Science of Berlin Dada
Av Thomas O. Haakenson, Imke Meyer
Inbunden, 2021
1632 kr
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Grotesque Visions focuses on the radical avant-garde interventions of Salomo Friedländer (aka Mynona), Til Brugman, and Hannah Höch as they challenged the questionable practices and evidentiary claims of late-19th- and early-20th-century science. Demonstrating the often excessive measures that …
Grotesque Visions
The Science of Berlin Dada
Av Thomas O. Haakenson, Imke Meyer
Häftad, 2022
495 kr
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Grotesque Visions focuses on the radical avant-garde interventions of Salomo Friedländer (aka Mynona), Til Brugman, and Hannah Höch as they challenged the questionable practices and evidentiary claims of late-19th- and early-20th-century science. Demonstrating the often excessive measures that …
Modernism in Trieste
The Habsburg Mediterranean and the Literary Invention of Europe, 1870-1945
Av Salvatore Pappalardo, Imke Meyer
Häftad, 2022
528 kr
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When we think about the process of European unification, our conversations inevitably ponder questions of economic cooperation and international politics. Salvatore Pappalardo offers a new and engaging perspective, arguing that the idea of European unity is also the product of a modern literary …
Modernism in Trieste
The Habsburg Mediterranean and the Literary Invention of Europe, 1870-1945
Av Salvatore Pappalardo, Imke Meyer
Inbunden, 2021
1632 kr
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When we think about the process of European unification, our conversations inevitably ponder questions of economic cooperation and international politics. Salvatore Pappalardo offers a new and engaging perspective, arguing that the idea of European unity is also the product of a modern literary …
Lever as Instrument of Reason
Technological Constructions of Knowledge around 1800
Av Jocelyn Holland, Imke Meyer
Häftad, 2020
560 kr
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The lever appears to be a very simple object, a tool used since ancient times for the most primitive of tasks: to lift and to balance. Why, then, were prominent intellectuals active around 1800 in areas as diverse as science, philosophy, and literature inspired to think and write about levers? In …
Fontane Workshop
Manufacturing Realism in the Industrial Age of Print
Av Petra S. McGillen, Imke Meyer
Häftad, 2021
544 kr
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Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures (Awarded by the MLA)With an innovative approach that combines material media history, media theory, and literary poetics, this book reconstructs the great German writer Theodor Fontane's creative …
Kafka’s Stereoscopes
The Political Function of a Literary Style
Av Isak Winkel Holm, Imke Meyer
Häftad, 2021
544 kr
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In 1911, Franz Kafka encountered the Kaiser Panorama: a stereoscopic peep show offering an illusion of three-dimensional depth. After the experience, he began to emulate the apparatus in his literary sketches, developing a style we might call "stereoscopic," juxtaposing, like the optical …
Ambiguous Aggression in German Realism and Beyond
Flirtation, Passive Aggression, Domestic Violence
Av Barbara N. Nagel, Imke Meyer
Häftad, 2021
544 kr
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Our main words defining emotional states suggest that we have clarity about them: expressions like "love," "hatred," "anxiety," or "sorrow" seem clear enough. The reality, however, tends to be more complicated. We are often faced with gestures and utterances that are difficult to interpret; we thus …
Jane Eyre in German Lands
The Import of Romance, 1848–1918
Inbunden, 2022
1632 kr
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Lynne Tatlock examines the transmission, diffusion, and literary survival of Jane Eyre in the German-speaking territories and the significance and effects thereof, 1848-1918. Engaging with scholarship on the romance novel, she presents an historical case study of the generative power and protean …
Jane Eyre in German Lands
The Import of Romance, 1848–1918
Häftad, 2023
495 kr
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Lynne Tatlock examines the transmission, diffusion, and literary survival of Jane Eyre in the German-speaking territories and the significance and effects thereof, 1848-1918. Engaging with scholarship on the romance novel, she presents an historical case study of the generative power and protean …
