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Companion to Friedrich Nietzsche
Life and Works
Av Paul Bishop
Häftad, 2015
565 kr
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An advanced introduction for students and a re-orientation for Nietzsche scholars and intellectual historians on the development of his thought and the aesthetic construction of his identity as a philosopher.Nietzsche looms over modern literature and thought; according to Gottfried Benn, …
World as Metaphor in Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities
Possibility as Reality
Av Genese Grill
Häftad, 2022
342 kr
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The first study to utilize the Klagenfurt Edition of Musil's Nachlass offers a close reading of textual variations, emphasizing Musil's commitment to the artist's role in re-creating the world.Robert Musil, known to be a scientific and philosophical thinker, was committed to aesthetics as a process …
Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours
A New Translation with Commentary
Av Rainer Maria Rilke, Ben Hutchinson
Häftad, 2012
415 kr
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A superb new (and complete) translation of Rilke's luminously lyrical early book of poems, with scholarly introduction and commentary.Rainer Maria Rilke is arguably the most important modern German-language poet. His New Poems, Duino Elegies, and Sonnets to Orpheus are pillars of 20th-century …
Suddenly Everything Was Different
German Lives in Upheaval
Av Olaf Georg Klein, Dwight Allman
Häftad, 2007
345 kr
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A unique historical and literary document of lives dislocated by the collapse of East Germany.What happens when the world in which people have crafted identities for themselves and lived their lives suddenly disappears? How does a person -- or a nation -- confront such a shock? From 1990 to 1993, …
Three Political Tales from Medieval Germany
Duke Ernst, Henry of Kempten, and Reynard the Fox
Inbunden, 2024
802 kr
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Accurate and entertaining translations of three texts that reveal much about medieval political thought and remain relevant to today's political systemsRecent political events around the world, not least January 6, 2021, have shown that political systems long thought to be resilient can be …
Companion to the Works of Robert Musil
Av Philip Payne, Graham Bartram m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
656 kr
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A fresh and extensive look at the works of the great Austrian novelist in the context of the German and Austrian culture of his time.A panel of authors, critics, and academics convened by the Literaturhaus in Munich in 1999 voted Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities the most important German …
Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers
Writing, Performance, and the Politics of Loyalty
Inbunden, 1999
2020 kr
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A study of Mann's novel tetralogy of the 1930s that stresses its relationship to three key essays by Mann.McDonald's study offers fresh insights into Mann's Joseph tetralogy in two ways. Beginning with Mann's well documented love for public performance, he rereads the Joseph novels as a script, …
Art of Revolution
Kurt Eisner's Agitprop
Inbunden, 1986
941 kr
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The first major study of the neglected fiction works of the well-known revolutionary politician Kurt Eisner.This fascinating study analyzes the fiction (including the didactic political Märchen) of Kurt Eisner, who is best known as a revolutionary politician of the Wilhelminian and Weimar periods. …
Ghetto Writing
Traditional and Eastern Jewry in German-Jewish Literature from Heine to Hilsenrath
Inbunden, 1999
1440 kr
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Fresh articles about a much neglected genre, fiction from and about the Jewish ghetto.Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries ghetto fiction played an important part in the expression of a particularly German-Jewish quest for identity. The volume Ghetto Writing takes the occasion of the 150th …
Thomas Bernhards Trilogie der Künste
Der Untergeher, Holzfällen, Alte Meister
Av Gregor Hens
Inbunden, 1999
1440 kr
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Study of the three most signficant late works of the Austrian novelist and playwright Thomas Bernhard. (In German language.)Three late prose works of the Austrian novelist and playwright Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989), published between 1983 and 1985, display a number of interesting similarities and …
Adalbert Stifter's Late Prose
The Mania for Moderation
Inbunden, 2000
1427 kr
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Provides a view of the late Stifter as a forerunner of twentieth-century modernism.Adalbert Stifter has always been viewed as a natural heir to the Great Classical tradition, even by those critics who detect disturbing subtexts in his fiction. But he should be viewed quite differently: however well …
Heinrich von Kleist und die Aufklärung
Av Tim Mehigan
Inbunden, 2000
1516 kr
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A collection of essays examining the influence of Kant on Heinrich von Kleist.The great and eccentric German writer Heinrich von Kleist, famous for his enigmatic dramas and novellas, read the Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant in 1801. A series of letters written around this time speak of the …
Thomas Mann's Death in Venice
A Novella and Its Critics
Inbunden, 2003
1516 kr
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Study of the critical reception of one of the most famous and widely read works of modern literature.Thomas Mann's 1912 novella Death in Venice is one of the most famous and widely read texts in all of modern literature, raising such issues as beauty and decadence, eros and irony, and aesthetics …
Zarathustra's Children
A Study of a Lost Generation of German Writers
Inbunden, 2000
1440 kr
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A study of the enormous influence of the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche on turn-of-the-century German literature.The aim of this book is to explore "that post-Nietzschean archipelago of German literature which no one mind can hope to map, let alone inhabit" (Michael Hamburger) and to introduce it …
Anthology of German Novellas
Häftad, 1996
574 kr
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Collection of sixteen German novellas from the 17th to the 20th century in the original language, showing the wide range of the genre, and fully glossed.This new collection, intended for the student and the interested general reader of German alike, includes both traditional examples, and those …
Stated Memory
East Germany and the Holocaust
Inbunden, 1999
1290 kr
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A long-overdue study of the East German view of the Holocaust over the years 1946-1989.Stated Memory: East Germany and the Holocaust investigates communist Germany's attempt to explain the Holocaust within a framework that was at once German and Marxist. The book probes the contradictions and …
Cultural History through a National Socialist Lens
Essays on the Cinema of the Third Reich
Häftad, 2002
412 kr
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A fascinating look at Nazi Germany as revealed in its films.This collection of essays offers a view of Nazi Germany through an analysis of twenty films, representing a sampling of the period's directors and reflecting the film medium's major genres. In spite of the control that Goebbels's film …
Ambivalence Transcended
A Study of the Writings of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
Inbunden, 1997
1817 kr
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First comprehensive study in English of Germany's most prominent female author.Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1798-1848) remains Germany's foremost female author. Perhaps best known for her novella Die Judenbuche and her ballads, Droste's narrative ability in prose or verse, and her gift for forging …
Constructing China: Kafka's Orientalist Discourse
Inbunden, 1997
988 kr
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Kafka's interest in and use of China establish him as a principal commentator in Western discourse on the Orient.Goebel studies four representative works by Kafka that explore the problems of the Western representation of the Orient: his 'Description of a Struggle'; several letters to Felice Bauer, …
Fritz Lang's Metropolis
Cinematic Visions of Technology and Fear
Av Michael Minden, Holger Bachmann
Häftad, 2002
434 kr
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A collection of essays -- early seminal works as well as freshinterpretations -- on the famous German expressionist film,Metropolis.Fritz Lang's classic 1927 film Metropolis has justifiably become an icon for the complexities of Weimar culture. Among the important general issues it also raises are …
German Literature, Jewish Critics
The Brandeis Symposium
Av Stephen D. Dowden, Meike G. Werner
Inbunden, 2002
1968 kr
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Proceedings of the Brandeis conference on Jewish Germanists who fled Nazi Germany and their impact on Anglo-American German studies.Among the Jewish academics and intellectuals expelled from Germany and Austria during the Nazi era were many specialists in German literature. Strangely, their impact …
Queering the Canon
Defying Sights in German Literature and Culture
Av Christoph Lorey, John L. Plews
Inbunden, 1998
1968 kr
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This work studies in detail a heretofore much neglected aned aspect of German literature.This collection of twenty-three essays sets its sights on the points of queerness, marginality, and alterity already present within the German canon and introduces further difference and deviation in the form …
Family Secrets and the Contemporary German Novel
Literary Explorations in the Aftermath of the Third Reich
Inbunden, 2001
1440 kr
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A analysis of recent German novelistic treatments of the effect of the Nazi past on the relationships between parents and children.This book focuses on representations of familial conflict in German and Austrian prose of the last twenty-five years. Some of the most prominent German and Austrian …
Space and Time in Epic Theater
The Brechtian Legacy
Inbunden, 2000
1440 kr
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The development of epic theater before, during, and after Brecht's time, and analysis of epic productions, showing the form's continued relevance.Bertolt Brecht and the director Erwin Piscator developed epic theater in the 1920s because they found Western realism limited to the single perspective …
Young Rilke and His Time
Inbunden, 2008
1950 kr
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A look at neglected aspects of the early career of one of the premier poets of the German language.Although Rainer Maria Rilke and his work have been much studied and written about over the past century -- as befits the perhaps most important German-language poet of modern times -- certain aspects …
History, Myth, and Music
Thomas Mann's Timely Fiction
Av Susan Scaff
Inbunden, 1998
1440 kr
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Discussion of Thomas Mann's fiction (particularly Doctor Faustus), his preoccupation with redemption, and the connection in his work between myth and music.Thomas Mann's response to the crisis of modernity and the catastrophe of fascism is defined by the thematic matrix of history, myth and music: …
Commodities of Desire
The Prostitute in Modern German Literature
Inbunden, 2001
1516 kr
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The first collection of essays treating exclusively the figure of the prostitute in modern German literature.Unlike her counterpart in French literature, and despite her importance in drama, poetry, and prose, the figure of the prostitute in modern German literature has been a largely neglected …
Case of Hans Henny Jahnn
Criticism and the Literary Outsider
Inbunden, 2001
1516 kr
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The first full-length study of the literary criticism on the works of the controversial twentieth-century German writer Hans Henny Jahnn.Hans Henny Jahnn (1894-1959) is one of Germany's most controversial modern authors, in large part due to sharply diverging reactions to the depictions of …
Politics and Culture in Twentieth-Century Germany
Av William Niven, James Jordan
Inbunden, 2003
1318 kr
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New essays on the influence of politics on 20c. German culture, not only during the Nazi and Cold War eras but in periods when the effects are less obvious.The cultural history of 20th-century Germany, more perhaps than that of any other European country, was decisively influenced by political …
Italy in the German Literary Imagination
Goethe's 'Italian Journey' and Its Reception by Eichendorff, Platen, and Heine
Inbunden, 2002
1427 kr
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The German fascination with Italy, as seen in Goethe's Italian Journey and in a number of literary reactions to it.Italy has long exerted a particular fascination on the Germans, and this has been reflected in German literature, most prominently in Goethe's Italienische Reise but also by numerous …
