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Durs Grünbein
A Companion
Av Michael Eskin, Karen Leeder m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
404 kr
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Durs Grünbein is the most significant poet and essayist in German today. No other modern German poet has written from such an emphatically European and global perspective, and this volume seeks to present the poet and his work to the English-speaking world in all their significance and breadth. …
Wolfgang Iser
A Companion
Av Ben De Bruyn
Häftad, 2012
404 kr
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Although Wolfgang Iser is one of the most influential literary theorists of the twentieth century, there is no authoritative study about his oeuvre. The present work remedies that problem by analysing Iser’s German and English writings in detail. Apart from being the first comprehensive account of …
"The Lives of Others" and Contemporary German Film
A Companion
Av Paul Cooke
Häftad, 2013
325 kr
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This volume offers the first book-length academic investigation of Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Oscar-winning film The Lives of Others (2006). The aim of this edited collection is twofold. On the one hand, it offers new insight into one of the most successful German films of the past two …
DEFA at the Crossroads of East German and International Film Culture
A Companion
Av Marc Silberman, Henning Wrage
Häftad, 2014
240 kr
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Motion picture production, distribution, exhibition and reception has always been a transnational phenomenon, yet East Germany, situated at the edge of the post-war Iron Curtain, separated by a boundary that became materialized in the Berlin Wall in 1961, resembles nothing if not an island, a …
German Pop Literature
A Companion
Häftad, 2015
325 kr
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Pop literature of the 1990s enjoyed bestselling success, as well as an extensive and sometimes bluntly derogatory reception in the press. Since then, less censorious scholarship on pop has emerged to challenge its flash-in-the-pan status by situating the genre within a longer history of aesthetic …
German Pop Music
A Companion
Av Uwe Schütte
Häftad, 2017
331 kr
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The development of German pop music represents a fascinating cultural mirror to the history of post-war Germany, reflecting sociological changes and political developments. While film studies is an already established discipline, German pop music is currently emerging as a new and exciting field of …
Contemporary German Crime Fiction
A Companion
Häftad, 2019
537 kr
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A companion to contemporary German crime fiction for English-speaking audiences is overdue. Starting with the earlier Swiss “classics” Glauser and Dürrenmatt and including a number of important Austrian authors, such as Wolf Haas and Heinrich Steinfest, this volume will cover the essential writers, …
Ulrike Draesner
A Companion
Av Karen Jane Leeder, Lyn Marven
Häftad, 2022
359 kr
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Ulrike Draesner is a prize-winning writer of novels, short stories, critical essays and poetry, and one of the foremost authors in Germany today. While a number of volumes have been published in German on her work, the current Companion offers the first volume on Draesner in English, capitalising …
Christa Wolf
A Companion
Av Sonja E. Klocke, Jennifer R. Hosek
Häftad, 2018
414 kr
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Interest in Christa Wolf continues to grow. Her classics are being reprinted and new titles are appearing posthumously, becoming bestsellers, and being translated. Energetic scholarly debates engage well-known aesthetic and political issues that the public intellectual herself fore-fronted. This …
Paul Celan Today
A Companion
Av Michael Eskin, Karen Leeder m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
313 kr
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Marking Paul Celan's 100th birthday and the 50th anniversary of his death, this volume endeavours to answer the following question: why does Celan still matter today – more than ever perhaps? And why should he continue to matter tomorrow? In other words, the volume explores and assesses the …
