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German Literature (Very Short Introductions)
by Nicholas Boyle  Publisher Comments German literature in all genres and from all historical periods has exerted an enormous influence on the history of western thought. From Martin Luther, Frederick Schiller, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann, Bertolt...
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The Classical Centre: Goethe and Weimar 1775-1832
by T. J. Reed Publisher Comments "It draws on a profound knowledge of European literature, its argument is coherent from beginning to end, it is compellingly written."--Times Higher Education Supplement. While in Weimar, Goethe wrote literature which gave his country an artistic and...
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A New History of German Literature: , (Harvard University Press Reference Library)
by David E Wellbery Publisher Comments Gü nter Grass, Edward Dimendberg on Holocaust memorials....
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Fringe Voices: Texts by and about Minorities in the Federal Republic of Germany
by Antje Harnisch Publisher Comments Since German unification, there have been many reports about xenophobia in Germany and the government has attempted to stem the new wave of racism. In contrast, the voices of the victims of racism -- refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants -- are seldom...
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Complex pleasure :forms of feeling in German literature
by Stanley Corngold Publisher Comments Complex Pleasure deals with questions of literary feeling in eight major German writers—Lessing, Kant, Hölderlin, Nietzsche, Musil, Kafka, Trakl, and Benjamin. On the basis of close readings of these authors Stanley Corngold makes vivid the...
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Keepers of the Motherland: German Texts by Jewish Women Writers
by Dagmar C G Lorenz Publisher Comments Keepers of the Motherland is the first comprehensive study of German and Austrian Jewish women authors. Dagmar Lorenz begins with an examination of the Yiddish author Glikl Hamil, whose works date from the late-seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries,...
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Germania (Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents Series)
by Heiner Mueller Publisher Comments Reflections on the laws of history from the standpoint of someone straddling the Berlin Wall....
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The Rise of the Modern German Novel: Crisis and Charisma
by Russell A. Berman Publisher Comments Berman has written a powerful example of the new literary history as well as a guide to the century that brought forth the modern German Novel. His book is important to students of German literature and of social and intellectual currents in the...
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Framing Pieces: Designs of the Gloss in Joyce, Woolf, and Pound
by J Whittier Ferguson Publisher Comments In Framing Pieces, Whittier-Ferguson recovers and explores drafts, notes, glosses, essays, and guides that high modernists, such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound generated in order to interpret their own work. These archival...
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The "Jewish Question" in German Literature, 1749-1939: Emancipation and Its Discontents
by Ritchie Robertson Publisher Comments This book is an erudite literary study of the uneasy position of the Jews in Germany and Austria from the first pleas for Jewish emancipation during the Enlightenment to the eve of the Holocaust. Drawing on a wide range of literary texts, Ritchie...
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German Literature in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Renaissance--Reformation--Baroque
by Roy Pascal Publisher Comments A survey placing German literature in social and political context....
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German Orientalisms
by Todd Curtis Kontje Publisher Comments Todd Kontje's German Orientalisms offers a fresh examination of the role of the East in the "Kontje has pulled off the amazing feat of a grand narrative: from the epic literature of the Middle Ages to very recent texts on the emerging multicultural...
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Bitter Healing German Women Writers
by Jeannine Blackwell Publisher Comments Bitter Healing is the first anthology of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century German women's writing in English translation. It goes far toward filling a major gap in literary history by recovering for a wide audience the works of women who were...
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Disinherited Mind: Essays in Modern German Literature and Thought
by Erich Heller Publisher Comments Since first publication in 1952, The Disinherited Mind has been in continuous demand, recognized as a work whose significance extends far beyond the subject of German letters. The noted critic and poet Edwin Muir has written of it, The condition it...
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Grimmelshausen the storyteller :a study of the "Simplician" novels
by Alan Menhennet Publisher Comments Johann Jakob von Grimmelshausen (1622-76) wished to be taken seriously as a writer, which by and large, in his own day, he was not. He was in fact theauthor of the first great German novel, Der abentheuerliche Simplicissimus (1688), out of which arose a...
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In the shadow of Olympus :German women writers around 1800
by Katherine R Goodman Book News Annotation Ten essays examine the writings of German women 1790-1810, showing how they came to be Germany's first generation of women writers when the literary standard was set by Goethe, and emphasizing the writers' ambivalence toward literary and social models...
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German Library #0010: Eighteenth Century German Prose
by Sophie Von La Roche Publisher Comments The German Library is a new series of the major works of German literature and thought from medieval times to the present. The volumes have forwards by internationally known writers and introductions by prominent scholars....
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Modernity and Text
by Andreas Huyssen Publisher Comments The study of Austrian and German modernist literature has a long and venerable history in this country. There have been no attempts yet, however, to reassess German and Austrian literary modernism in light of current discussion of modernity and...
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by Siegfried Kracauer Publisher Comments Siegfried Kracauer was one of the twentieth century's most brilliant cultural critics, a daring and prolific scholar, and an incisive theorist of film. In this volume his finest writings on modern society make their long-awaited appearance in English...
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After the 'Death' of Literature: West German Writing of the 1970s
by Keith Bullivant Publisher Comments Examines the works of contemporary German writers and the changing contexts of German literature from the 1960s to the 1970s....
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