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Goethe Yearbook 12 by Simon J. Richter 9781571132956
RRP: €89.25€86.07The Goethe Yearbook, first published in 1982, is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America and is dedicated to North American Goethe scholarship. It aims above all to encourage and publish original English-language contributions to the... -
Goethe Yearbook 10 by Thomas P. Saine 9781571132307
RRP: €65.45€62.96The Goethe Yearbook, first published in 1982, is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America and is dedicated to North American Goethe scholarship. It aims above all to encourage and publish original English-language contributions to the... -
Italy in the German Literary Imagination - Goethe`s `Italian Journey` and Its Reception by Eichendorff, Platen, and Heine by Gretchen Hachmeister 9781571132260
RRP: €95.20€91.17Italy 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 other writers who have returned to the topic. This book is concerned... -
The Case of Hans Henny Jahnn - Criticism and the Literary Outsider by Thomas Freeman 9781571132062
RRP: €95.20€91.17Hans 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 sado-masochistic brutality, incest, and homoeroticism in his plays and novels. Jahnn's rank as a... -
Early Germanic Literature and Culture CHHGL 1 by Brian Murdoch 9781571131997
RRP: €113.05€108.39The first volume of this set views the development of writing in German with respect to broad aspects of the early Germanic past, drawing on a range of disciplines including archaeology, anthropology, and philology in addition to literary history. The... -
Interwar Vienna - Culture between Tradition and Modernity by Deborah Holmes 9781571134202
€126.72New essays providing a wide-ranging cultural, social, and political picture of volatile between-the-wars Vienna. Although beset by social, political, and economic instabilities, interwar Vienna was an exhilarating place, with pioneering developments... -
Figures of Natality: Reading the Political in the Age of Goethe by Joseph D. O'Neil 9781501343728
RRP: €41.64€22.81Figures of Natality reads metaphors and narratives of birth in the age of Goethe (1770-1832) as indicators of the new, the unexpected, and the revolutionary. Using Hannah Arendt's concept of natality, Joseph O'Neil argues that Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist... -
Modeling Motherhood in Weimar Germany: Political and Psychological Discourses in Women’s Writing by Dr. Katherine E Calvert 9781640141674
RRP: €95.20€91.17Reveals how socialist discourses and psychoanalytic ideas shaped the modern models of motherhood envisioned by left-wing and socially critical women writers working in the Weimar press and literary spheres. Women's experiences and opportunities in the... -
Guinea-pig by Paul Marlee 9780907015543
RRP: €7.08€5.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907015543Author Paul MarleeFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Karnak HousePublisher Karnak HouseWeight(grams) 180g -
Ulrich von Zatzikhoven`s Lanzelet - Narrative Style and Entertainment by Nicola McLelland 9780859916028
RRP: €95.20€91.17Ulrich von Zatzikhoven's Lanzelet, written around the turn of the thirteenth century, has long intrigued scholars both within and outside German studies: the only remaining trace of a Lancelot legend free of the adulterous affair with Guinevere, it has... -
The German Student Movement and the Literary Imagination: Transnational Memories of Protest and Dissent by Susanne Rinner 9780857457547
RRP: €117.81€95.00Through a close reading of novels by Ulrike Kolb, Irmtraud Morgner, Emine Sevgi Ozdamar, Bernhard Schlink, Peter Schneider, and Uwe Timm, this monograph traces the cultural memory of the 1960s student movement in German fiction, revealing layers of... -
German Literature in a New Century: Trends, Traditions, Transitions, Transformations by Katharina Gerstenberger 9780857451682
RRP: €33.26€26.87While the first decade after the fall of the Berlin wall was marked by the challenges of unification and the often difficult process of reconciling East and West German experiences, many Germans expected that the "new century" would achieve... -
Benjamin's Passages: Dreaming, Awakening by Alexander Gelley 9780823262564
RRP: €83.30€71.77In transposing the Freudian dream work from the individual subject to the collective, Walter Benjamin projected a "macroscosmic journey" of the individual sleeper to "the dreaming collective, which, through the arcades, communes with its... -
Malicious Objects, Anger Management, and the Question of Modern Literature by Jorg Kreienbrock 9780823245284
RRP: €97.58€84.80Why 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... -
More Than Life: Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin on Art by Stephane Symons 9780810135772
€46.93More Than Life: Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin on Art is the first book to trace the philosophical relation between Georg Simmel and his one-time student Walter Benjamin, two of the most influential German thinkers of the twentieth century.Reading... -
Princess Aasta by Stina Langlo Ordal 9780747550044
RRP: €5.94€4.93A little girl wants a bear, and being an enterprising princess, she places an advert in the paper. Many bears reply, but one bear that is big and white with the most tender eyes is the most special. Together they set off on an adventure to the North Pole... -
Jurek Becker by Colin Riordan 9780708314562
RRP: €3.56€3.12This book is intended both as an introduction for the general reader and as a resource for the specialist. It contains a tribute to Jurek Becker specially written for this volume by his friend and colleague Peter Schneider, together with a revealing... -
The Bells in Their Silence: Travels through Germany by Michael Gorra 9780691126173
RRP: €35.70€27.72Nobody writes travelogues about Germany. The country spurs many anxious volumes of investigative reporting--books that worry away at the "German problem," World War II, the legacy of the Holocaust, the Wall, reunification, and the connections between... -
Hans-Ulrich Treichel by David Basker 9780708317167
RRP: €15.46€11.54Hans-Ulrich Treichel has enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame since the publication of his first novel "Der Verlorene" in 1998. This volume follows the series pattern, aiming to provide an introduction to Hans-Ulrich Treichel and to offer a critical... -
Peter Schneider by Colin Riordan 9780708312896
RRP: €5.94€4.81Peter Schneider is a seminal figure in contemporary German writing. Initially prominent for his involvement in the student movement, he has consistently focused on problems at the heart of German national and cultural identity: the legacy of Auschwitz,... -
Christoph Hein by Bill Niven 9780708316146
RRP: €4.75€3.96Christoph Hein is widely regarded as one of the most important writers to emerge from the former GDR. This volume contains an interview with Hein, a previously unpublished prose piece by him, an up-to-date biography and critical articles which examine... -
The Train by Carl Slotboom 9780573123320
€12.46Two elderly Jewish people, David and Clara, sit in a 1990s train whilst their younger selves are seen in a converted cattle wagon in the 1940s. The modern train has halted unexpectedly and the enforced wait sends David's thoughts back to that earlier... -
Literature and the Cult of Personality - Essays on Goethe and His Influence by Gregory Maertz 9783838209814
RRP: €30.94€25.07The construction of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as an Anglo-American sage and literary icon was the product of a cult of personality that lay at the centre of nineteenth-century cultural politics. A reconstruction of the culture wars fought over Goethes... -
Travel Texts and Moving Cultures: German Literature and the Mobilities Turn by Anita Perkins 9783034322188
RRP: €54.86€48.11How does the experience of travel transform culture over time? This question is at the heart of this book, which brings together two main areas of scholarship: the cultural analysis of German literature and film and the emerging field of mobilities... -
German Literature in a New Century: Trends, Traditions, Transitions, Transformations by Katharina Gerstenberger 9781845455477
RRP: €117.81€95.47While the first decade after the fall of the Berlin wall was marked by the challenges of unification and the often difficult process of reconciling East and West German experiences, many Germans expected that the new centuryA" would achieve ... -
Beyond 1989: Re-reading German literature since 1945 K. Bullivant 9781571810380
RRP: €28.50€23.19"This volume makes abundantly clear the fact that the cultural unification of Germany ...is as arduous and painful as the political/economic merger ...An excellent collection, well-conceived and highly informative." - Choice With the fall of... -
Beyond 1989: Re-reading German literature since 1945 K. Bullivant 9781571810373
RRP: €117.81€95.00With the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, four decades of separation seemed to have been brought to an end. In the literary arena as in many others, this seemed to be the surprising but ultimately logical end to the situation in which, after the... -
Rebirth of a Culture: Jewish Identity and Jewish Writing in Germany and Austria today by Hillary Hope Herzog 9781845455118
RRP: €117.81€95.00After 1945, Jewish writing in German was almost unimaginable-and then only in reference to the Shoah. Only in the 1980s, after a period of mourning, silence, and processing of the trauma, did a new Jewish literature evolve in Germany and Austria. This... -
Mad Madchen: Feminism and Generational Conflict in Recent German Literature and Film Margaret McCarthy 9781785335693
RRP: €130.90€110.00The last two decades have been transformational, often discordant ones for German feminism, as a new cohort of activists has come of age and challenged many of the movement's strategic and philosophical orthodoxies. Mad Madchen offers an incisive... -
Tropics of Vienna: Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire by Ulrich E. Bach 9781785331329
RRP: €117.81€95.00The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were. It nevertheless oversaw a multinational federation where the capital of Vienna was unmistakably linked with its eastern periphery in a... -
Vienna Is Different: Jewish Writers in Austria from the Fin-de-Siecle to the Present Hillary Hope Herzog 9781782380498
RRP: €33.26€26.87Assessing the impact of fin-de-siecle Jewish culture on subsequent developments in literature and culture, this book is the first to consider the historical trajectory of Austrian-Jewish writing across the 20th century. It examines how Vienna, the city... -
Taboos in German Literature by David A. Jackson 9781571818812
RRP: €117.81€95.00A collection of ten essays written by German scholars investigating the formulation of taboos in literature, and the literary strategies and artistic devices used by German writers to subvert the unspeakable.Book InformationISBN 9781571818812Author David... -
Changing Cultural Tastes: Writers and the Popular in Modern Germany by Anthony Waine 9781571815224
RRP: €117.81€95.00"This is a very good book ...well, clearly, and forcefully written, in an attractive style with a touch of personal directness though with no sacrifice of academic rigour. The author's enjoyment of popular culture in various forms is clear and... -
The Readability of the World by Hans Blumenberg 9781501766619
RRP: €45.22€39.59The Readability of the World represents Hans Blumenberg's first extended demonstration of the metaphorological method he pioneered in Paradigms for a Metaphorology. For Blumenberg, metaphors are symptomatic of patterns of thought and feeling that escape... -
Crime Fiction in German: Der Krimi by Katharina Hall 9781783168163
RRP: €89.25€66.59Crime Fiction in German is the first volume in English to offer a comprehensive overview of German-language crime fiction from its origins in the early nineteenth century to its vibrant growth in the new millennium. As well as introducing readers to... -
A Companion to Sound in German-Speaking Cultures by Professor emeritus Rolf J. Goebel 9781640141223
RRP: €117.81€107.91Explores sonic events and auditory experiences in German-speaking contexts from the Middle Ages to the digital age, opening up new understandings. As a sub-discipline of cultural studies, sound studies is a firmly established field of inquiry, examining... -
The Operated Jew and The Operated Goy: Two Tales of Anti-Semitism by Jack Zipes 9781032534626
RRP: €91.62€79.79Originally published in English in 1991 and now reissued with a new Preface by Jack Zipes, this book presents and examines the work of two little-known writers, Oskar Panizza and Mynona (Salomo Friedlaender). In Panizza’s chilling story, The Operated Jew... -
The Freest Country in the World: East Germany's Final Year in Culture and Memory by Professor Stephen Brockmann 9781640141544
RRP: €113.05€107.91Shows that while the GDR is generally seen as - and mostly was - an oppressive and unfree country, from late 1989 until autumn 1990 it was the "freest country in the world": the dictatorship had disappeared while the welfare system remained. Stephen... -
Imaginaries of Domesticity and Women’s Work in Germany around 1800 by Professor Karin A. Wurst 9781640141285
RRP: €95.20€91.17Examines a variety of texts from late Enlightenment Germany to provide a nuanced rethinking of women's roles as wives, mothers, and housekeepers, creators of the cultural spaces of the home. Domesticity, a set of practices, emotions, and values... -
German Literature as a Transnational Field of Production, 1848-1919 by Lynne Tatlock 9781640141001
RRP: €113.05€107.91A collection of new essays bringing into view the push and pull of the national and the international in the Austro-German cultural field of the period. The cultural formations of the so-called Age of Nationalism (1848-1919) have shaped German literary...