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Here is the greatest account ever written of the destructiveness of missionary zeal. Gregers Werle enters the house of photographer Ekdal preaching 'the demands of idealism'(a nicely ambiguous phrase in Hampton's translation) and systematically destroys...

In German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife, Vivian Liska innovatively focuses on the changing form, fate and function of messianism, law, exile, election, remembrance, and the transmission of tradition itself in three different temporal and intellectual...

Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853) was a major figure in German Romanticism, a poet, playwright and novelist who was also an influential art and theatre critic, the editor of Kleist and Novalis, and responsible for bringing out the famous Schegel-Tieck translation...

The literary work which Goethe produced and stimulated in his Weimar years - the greater part of his life - gave to a country which was not yet a nation the centre of artistic and intellectual authority it lacked. T. J. Reed's study traces the way this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825368081Author Christina Johanna BischoffFormat HardbackPage Count 523Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams)...

The Long Century's Long Shadow approaches German Romanticism and Weimar cinema as continuous developments, enlisting both in a narrative of reciprocal illumination. The author investigates different moments and media as connected phenomena, situated at...

Continually attacked by government officials and educators, installment or colportage novels fascinated their underprivileged readers. Melodrama and sensation were essential ingredients. The hurriedly written, rambling plots sought to electrify fantasies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903521581Author Gudrun NordalFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint Viking Society for Northern ResearchPublisher Viking Society for Northern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903521468Author Kellinde WrightsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 171Imprint Viking Society for Northern ResearchPublisher Viking Society for Northern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903521734Author Anthony FaulkesFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Viking Society for Northern ResearchPublisher Viking Society for Northern Research

Already in the nineteenth century, German-language writers were contending with the challenge of imagining and accounting for a planet whose volatility bore little resemblance to the images of the Earth then in circulation. The Geological Unconscious...

Why do humans get angry with objects? Why is it that a malfunctioning computer, a broken tool, or a fallen glass causes an outbreak of fury? How is it possible to speak of an inanimate object's recalcitrance, obstinacy, or even malice? When things assume...

Fragile Minds and Vulnerable Souls investigates the creation of "obscene writings and images" as a category of print in nineteenth-century Germany. Sarah L. Leonard charts the process through which texts of many kinds-from popular medical works to...

The Virginal Mother in German Culture presents an innovative and thorough analysis of the contradictory obsession with female virginity and idealization of maternal nature in Germany from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Lauren...

Written in the context of a rejuvenated interest in the work of Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843), the essays gathered in The Solid Letter offer the first consolidated attempt in English to set out the many facets of his oeuvre. Addressed not only to...

Five experts present their viewpoints on four of the most important figures in recent intellectual and cultural history. Professor Egon Schwarz evaluates Hofmannsthal as a critic; Professors C. V. Bock and Lother Helbing combine forces in an analysis of...

Contents: Poems and Verse Plays; Plays and Libretti; Hofmannsthal's Debt to the English-speaking World Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print...

Surrealist writer Andre Breton praised hysteria for being the greatest poetic discovery of the nineteenth century, but many physicians have since viewed it as the "wastebasket of medicine," a psychosomatic state that defies attempts at...

In Translating the World, Birgit Tautz provides a new narrative of German literary history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Departing from dominant modes of thought regarding the nexus of literary and national imagination, she...

The original essays in this volume, while written from diverse perspectives, share the common aim of building a constructive dialogue between two currents in philosophy that seem not readily allied: Wittgenstein, who urges us to bring our words back home...

This volume contains the first modern critical editions of Concilium (1525) and Rychsztag (1526), two vernacular verse dialogues by the Zurich-based Zwinglian author Utz Eckstein, together with translations of both into English prose. These works are of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039102983Author Grant HenleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 310g

In this provocative work, Alicia E. Ellis provides readings of Franz Grillparzer's dramas as proto-feminist formulations of female figures who refuse the gendered constraints of the ancient world. The revisionist perspectives of the tragedies recover a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787357723Author Mererid Puw DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 488g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787357730Author Mererid Puw DaviesFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press

Around 1800, print culture became a particularly rich source for metaphors about thinking as well as writing, nowhere more so than in the German tradition of Dichter und Denker. Goethe, Jean Paul, and Hegel (among many others) used the preface in order...

We are inundated with game play today. Digital devices offer opportunities to play almost anywhere and anytime. No matter our age, gender, social, cultural, or educational background - we play. Play in the Age of Goethe: Theories, Narratives, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572411630Author Todd C. HanlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572411562Author Gert JonkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 300g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572410770Author Richard HackenFormat HardbackPage Count 455Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 798g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572411791Author Ariadne PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 223g

Since the late eighteenth century, writers and thinkers have used the idea of love-often unrequited or impossible love-to comment on the changing cultural, social, and political position of Jews in the German-speaking countries. In Mixed Feelings, Katja...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572411029Author Paul F. DvorakFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 572g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572410374Author Margarete Lamb-FaffelbergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 582g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825360498Author Jesko ReilingFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 607g

In Forms of Life, Andreas Gailus argues that the neglect of aesthetics in most contemporary theories of biopolitics has resulted in an overly restricted conception of life. He insists we need a more flexible notion of life: one attuned to the interplay...

Primitive Renaissance argues that the radicality of early-twentieth-century movements such as expressionism was not their modernism but rather their primitivism. At the heart of the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, Carl...

Today, churches, political parties, trade unions, and even national sports teams are no guarantee of social solidarity. At a time when these traditional institutions of social cohesion seem increasingly ill-equipped to defend against the disintegration...

Collecting is usually understood as an activity that bestows permanence, unity, and meaning on otherwise scattered and ephemeral objects. In The Redemption of Things, Samuel Frederick emphasizes that to collect things, however, always entails displacing,...

Originally published in 1980, this book examines the nature and significance of Classicism as a literary phenomenon and relates the beginnings of the German variety to the search for a national identity in the circumstances of a politically fragmented...