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If We Had the Word: Ingeborg Bachmann, Views & Reviews by Gisela Brinker-Gabler 9781572411302
RRP: €41.64€34.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572411302Author Gisela Brinker-GablerFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 446g -
Writers and Politics in Germany, 1945-2008 Keith Stuart Parkes 9781571134011
RRP: €65.45€62.49George Orwell said that all writing is political; but the writers of some nations and some periods are more political than others. German writers after 1945 have exemplified such heightened politicization, and this book considerstheir contribution to the... -
A Companion to the Works of Robert Musil Philip Payne 9781571131102
RRP: €71.40€68.48A 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 novel of the 20th century. Their collective judgment restson strong foundations: on the... -
A Catalogue of Names of Persons in the German Co - An Examination of the Literary Sources and Dissemination, together Notes on the Etymologies o by Frank W. Chandler 9780951308578
RRP: €23.79€20.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951308578Author Frank W. ChandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint King's College London Centre for Late Antique andPublisher King's College London... -
Goethe's Science in the Structure of the ""Wanderjahre by Alfred G. Steer 9780820332611
€27.64Published in 1979, this study is intended as a continuation of the work of the scholars and previous commentators on Goethe's Wanderjahre. While considering the scientific structure, it concentrates first on one basic question of form - that of the... -
How to Read Nietzsche by Keith Ansell-Pearson 9780393328219
RRP: €17.85€14.73Approaching the writing of major intellectuals, artists, and philosophers need no longer be daunting. How to Read is a new sort of introduction--a personal master class in reading--that brings you face to face with the work of some of the most... -
Wilhelm Waiblinger in Italy by Lawrence S. Thompson 9781469658537
RRP: €28.50€25.91This study traces the importance of Italy as a source of literary inspiration in the work of the Swabian poet Wilhelm Waiblinger (1804-1830), who spent the last four years of his life, the most prolific of his career, living and traveling in Italy... -
The Marble Statue as Idea: Collected Essays on Adalbert Stifter's Der Nachsommer by Christine Oertel Sjogren 9781469658391
RRP: €28.50€26.05Each of the nine essays in this illuminating study of Der Nachsommer focuses on heretofore overlooked details of the novel. As all the phenomena presented are oriented toward fulfillment of their highest potential, the novel emerges as a powerful... -
Six Essays on the Young German Novel by Jeffrey L. Sammons 9781469658292
RRP: €30.88€28.48In this study of the prose fiction of Das Junge Deutschland, the internal stresses and paradoxes of specific texts are examined and special attention is devoted to the unfulfilled strivings toward realism. Following an introduction to the young German... -
Literary Paternity, Literary Friendship: Essays in Honor of Stanley Corngold by Gerhard Richter 9781469658247
RRP: €35.64€33.71The twenty-one original essays in this volume offer a rigorous reconsideration of modern forms of paternity and friendship as they emerge in works by writers and philosophers from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. Exploring various models of... -
Portrait of the Artist as Hermes: A Study of Myth and Psychology in Thomas Mann's Felix Krull by Donald F. Nelson 9781469658049
RRP: €28.50€26.35Within the framework of Jungian archetypal psychology and utilizing Karl Kerenyi's theories on Hermes and the archetypal symbolism of mother and daughter, this book combines the mythopoeic and psychoanalytical approaches in interpreting Krull's... -
Ludwig Tieck and America by Percy Matenko 9781469657912
RRP: €28.50€25.79This study explores the question of Tieck's reception in and influence on the American literary scene before 1900, with the additional goal of shedding light on the reception in America of German Romanticism as a whole. Matenko investigates... -
Honor in German Literature by George Fenwick Jones 9781469657592
RRP: €30.88€28.73Originally published in 1959, this first scholarly study of the origin and development of the concept of honor in German literature traces its role from ancient Germanic to modern works and shows how the transformation from external to internal... -
Christoph Martin Wieland as the Originator of Modern Travesty in German Literature by Charlotte Craig 9781469657295
RRP: €28.50€26.25In this study the extent to which Wieland contributed to the literary genre of the travesty is established, the poet's approach to his sources as well as the nature and duality of his innovations are investigated, and the level and distribution of his... -
The Works of Peter Schott, 1460-1490, Vol. II: Commentary by Marian L. Cowie 9781469657271
€38.29This companion volume to The Works of Peter Schott, Vol. I: Introduction and Text is an essential tool for gaining access to the writings of the humanist Peter Schott. The commentary volume comprises explanatory notes to Vol. I, including English... -
Goethe's Cyclical Narratives: Die Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten and Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre by Jane K. Brown 9781469657172
RRP: €28.50€25.93The novelty of this study lies in its techniques for understanding the deliberate narrative contradictions and elusive parody in Goethe's work. Interpretation of the entire Unterhaltungen, including the Marchen, establishes Goethe's principles of... -
The Humanist Ulrich von Hutten: A Reappraisal of his Humor by Thomas W. Best 9781469657097
RRP: €28.50€25.95Ulrich von Hutten (1488-1523), Renaissance-Reformation publisher and ardent champion of German nationalism, has previously been characterized as a bitter and vehement political satirist. From this concise, critical survey of his comic writing a more... -
Germany's Colonial Pasts by Eric Ames 9780803248199
€49.92Germany's Colonial Pasts is a wide-ranging study of German colonialism and its legacies. Inspired by Susanne Zantop's landmark book Colonial Fantasies, and extending her analyses there, this volume offers new research by scholars from Europe, Africa, and... -
The Look of Things: Poetry and Vision around 1900 by Carsten Strathausen 9781469615165
RRP: €45.16€29.12Examining the relationship between German poetry, philosophy, and visual media around 1900, Carsten Strathausen argues that the poetic works of Rainer Maria Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Stephan George focused on the visible gestalt of language as a... -
Young Nietzsche and the Wagnerian Experience by Frederick R. Love 9780807880395
RRP: €28.50€26.35Using previously unpublished and neglected sources, this 1963 study of the critical decade in the philosopher's development that culminated in The Birth of Tragedy in 1871 fully exploited for the first time the extensive record of Nietzsche's musical... -
Goethe's Social Philosophy: As Revealed in "Campagne in Frankreich" and "Belagerung von Mainz by Alfred G. Steer Jr. 9780807880159
RRP: €28.50€27.05In this study originally published in 1955, Steer explores the importance of Goethe's family concept in two autobiographical works, Campagne in Frankreich and Belagerung von Mainz. Through a close textual analysis, Steer argues that at the center of both... -
Theodor Storm's Novellen: Essays on Literary Technique by E. Allen McCormick 9780807880470
RRP: €28.50€26.50These six essays elucidate some of the more significant aspects of Storm's literary technique. The treatments of some of Storm's Novellen, including Am Kamin, Aquis Submersus and two versions of Immensee, show how Storm used structure, symbolism,... -
Studies in Arthur Schnitzler: Centennial Commemorative Volume by Herbert W. Reichert 9780807880425
RRP: €26.12€25.47This valuable collection of eight original and penetrating essays by American scholars honors the centenary of the Austrian dramatist's birth. The contributors are Kurt Bergel, Joseph Dayag, Lore Foltin, Robert Kann, Richard Lawson, Walter Perl, Herbert... -
Between Real and Ideal: The Course of Otto Ludwig's Development as a Narrative Writer by William H. McClain 9780807880401
RRP: €28.50€25.74Otto Ludwig, nineteenth-century German novelist and critic, originated the term poetic realism. In this excellent study, Ludwig's prose is sympathetically and thoroughly examined and a clear account of the evolution of German fiction after Romanticism is... -
Kleist in France by Frank C. Richardson 9780807880357
RRP: €30.88€28.62From Madame de Stael, Dumas, and Taine, to Giraudoux, Adamov, Ionesco, and the existentialists, this study provides a fascinating account of the progress of Kleist's reception in France from complete rejection in 1807 to spectacular critical and public... -
Middle Ages-Reformation-Volkskunde: Festschrift for John G. Kunstmann by Frederic E. Coenen 9780807880265
RRP: €30.88€28.94Twenty essays on medieval history, literature and language published in honor of John G. Kunstmann and his work on German literature in the Middle Ages. The contributors are Berthold Ullman, Urban Tigner Holmes, Edwin Zeydel, George Fenwick Jones,... -
Hermann Hesse and His Critics: The Criticism and Bibliography of Half a Century by Joseph Mileck 9780807880210
RRP: €33.26€31.84Originally published in celebration of Hermann Hesse's 80th birthday, this highly documented study, practical handbook, and reference work for Hesse scholarship is presented in three parts. Mileck gives a short biography of Hesse's life and a general... -
Three Chapters on Courtly Love in Arthurian France and Germany: Lancelot--Andreas Capellanus--Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival by Hermann J. Weigand 9780807880173
RRP: €26.12€23.55By analyzing Chretien's Cliges, Ulrich von Zatzikhoven's Lanzelet, Chretien's Chevalier de la Charette, and the Old French Prose Lancelot, as well as Andreas Capellanus' De Amore and Eschenbach's Parzival, Weigand presents a picture of the ideals of... -
Essays on Brecht: Theater and Politics by Siegfried Mews 9781469657950
RRP: €30.88€28.87These essays represent the push to provide interdisciplinary Brecht research to English-speaking audiences following his death in 1956 and offer novel readings of his works indicative of the major literary questions of the time. The essays explore both... -
Schiller and Music by R. M. Longyear 9781469657813
RRP: €30.88€28.51In this first definitive study of Friedrich Schiller's relationship to music, R. M. Longyear discusses Schiller's personal, literary, and philosophical utilization of music as well as the influence of Schiller's works on composers from 1782 through the... -
The Impatient Muse: Germany and the Sturm und Drang by Alan C. Leidner 9781469656724
RRP: €28.50€26.04Far from being a forerunner of Weimar Classicism or an addendum to the Enlightenment, the Sturm und Drang is best seen as part of an autonomous culture of impatience-as literature in which Germans, frustrated with their fragmented land, simulated a sense... -
The Construction of Textual Authority in German Literature of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods by Claire Baldwin 9781469615042
RRP: €33.26€32.45Current interest in the intersections of various kinds of discourse provides the basis for a fresh look at diverse textual strategies of cultural legitimation. This collection presents an introductory essay and eleven studies (written in English and... -
The Hermit in German Literature: (From Lessing to Eichendorff) by Henry John Fitzell 9780807888308
RRP: €28.50€26.14In this thorough study of the figure of the hermit in the works of German writers Fitzell analyzes characters in works by Lessing, Goethe, Klinger, Hoffmann, Wieland, Eichendorff and others. The author argues that the figure of the hermit characterizes... -
Ego-Alter Ego: Double and/as Other in the Age of German Poetic Realism by John David Pizer 9780807865828
RRP: €28.50€26.85German Poetic Realists drew on the Romantic motif of the Double in a manner consistent with the central dictum of Poetic Realism as articulated by its chief theorists, Julian Schmidt and Otto Ludwig. Schmidt and Ludwig argued that contemporary authors... -
Whitman and Nietzsche: A Comparative Study of Their Thought by C. N. Stavrou 9780807880487
RRP: €30.88€29.49This volume will be a great aid to students and scholars alike in American literature, American thought, the history of ideas, and comparative literature. Stavrou draws from the entire bodies of work by Whitman and Nietzsche to explore the parallels in... -
The Nibelungenlied Today: Its Substance, Essence, and Significance by Werner A. Mueller 9780807880340
RRP: €28.50€25.72This thorough study of the moral values of the Nibelungen and of their paradoxical behavior posits the work as an indictment of a society that results time and again in collective human tragedy. Told with tragic insight, yet sympathetically, the epic may... -
Between Redemption and Doom: The Strains of German-Jewish Modernism by Noah Isenberg 9780803220638
€22.53Between Redemption and Doom is a revelatory exploration of the evolution of German-Jewish modernism. Through an examination of selected works in literature, theory, and film, Noah Isenberg investigates the ways in which Jewish identity was represented in... -
Hermann Hesse: Writers for the Seventies by Edwin F Casebeer 9780615990279
RRP: €10.70€9.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615990279Author Edwin F CasebeerFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Serealities PressPublisher Serealities PressWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 216mm... -
Sketchbook 1966-1971 by Max Frisch 9780156827478
RRP: €22.60€16.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156827478Author Max FrischFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 141mm * 20mm -
On Writing and Politics, 1967-1983 by Gunter Grass 9780156687935
RRP: €16.60€11.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156687935Author Gunter GrassFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 186g