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In the German-speaking world there has been a new wave - intensifying since 2007 - of autobiographically inspired writing on illness and disability, death and dying. Nina Schmidt's book takes this writing seriously as literature,examining how the authors...

Preserving the memory of the Holocaust as a moral and ethical limit case is key to the European Union's attempt to construct a pan-European identity. But with the Eastern expansion of the EU, new member states have challenged the Holocaust's singularity,...

Grete Meisel-Hess (1879-1922), a contemporary of Freud, Schnitzler, and Klimt, was a feminist voice in early-twentieth-century modernist discourse. Born in Prague to Jewish parents and raised in Vienna, she became a literary presence with her 1902 novel...

Austrian Jewish author Hermann Broch (1886-1951), a leading figure of European Modernism, spent decades attempting to understand the phenomenon of mass hysteria. With his work, he hoped to help protect society from the allure of mass hysteria, embodied...

Germany has long defined itself in opposition to its eastern neighbors: its ideas around cultural prestige and its expressions of xenophobia seem inevitably to return to an imagined eastern "Other." Central to the consideration of such...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903521840Author David Faulkes EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint 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 9780929497297Author Kenneth SegarFormat PaperbackPage Count 391Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 640g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572411876Author Agatha SchwartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 390g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812691566Author Hannah HickmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.Weight(grams)...

The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, which was founded in 1980 to promote the study of Goethe and his contemporaries. Originally conceived as a vehicle for Goethe criticism in English during the Cold War political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781314032291Author Kuno FranckeFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint HardPress PublishingPublisher HardPress LtdWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781314032239Author Kuno FranckeFormat PaperbackPage Count 588Imprint HardPress PublishingPublisher HardPress LtdWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781314032185Author Kuno FranckeFormat PaperbackPage Count 614Imprint HardPress PublishingPublisher HardPress LtdWeight(grams) 152g

Originally published in 1987, this volume charts the development of German song across a century and a half, relating it both to poetry and to the cultural scene in Germany. By emphasising genre rather than individual composers and while paying heed to...

Originally published in 1977, this volume traces the development of literary forms and themes and of movements and schools, during the overtly philosophical age. It begins with the prominent poets of the 1720s and 1730s: Brockes, Hagedorn and Haller. It...

Originally published in 1952, this book provides a detailed critical analysis of 40 German lyrics. All the poems analysed are reprinted in full, so that criticism may be checked by reference to the original text. The book therefore provides a unique...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781314032246Author Kuno FranckeFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint HardPress PublishingPublisher HardPress LtdWeight(grams) 152g

Originally published in 1986, this book is an interpretative survey of the development of political writing in the former Federal Republic of Germany. It illustrates how intertwined writing is with politics, whether by the political commitment of writers...

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...

Examines portrayals of plants and landscapes in recent German novels and films, addressing the contemporary forms of racism, nationalism, and social and ecological injustice that they expose. Plants, Places, and Power is a study of plants and landscapes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781314032178Author Kuno FranckeFormat PaperbackPage Count 584Imprint HardPress PublishingPublisher HardPress LtdWeight(grams) 152g

Masculinities in Austrian Contemporary Literature: Strategic Evasion shows the important contribution that literature can make to the understanding of masculinities, by offering insights into the mental structures of hegemonic masculinity. It argues that...

Shows how Adler, Wander, Hilsenrath, and Klüger intertwine transgressive political criticism with the shadow of trauma, revealing new perspectives on canon formation and exclusion in postwar German literature. How did German-speaking Holocaust survivors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640141360Author Professor Patricia Anne SimpsonFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Camden House IncPublisher Boydell & Brewer LtdWeight(grams) 152g

The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, showcasing North American and international scholarship on Goethe and other authors and aspects of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Volume 30 seeks to prompt...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781314032277Author Kuno FranckeFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint HardPress PublishingPublisher HardPress LtdWeight(grams) 152g

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"Love and Reading" discusses 18th and 19th Century English fiction, the aesthetics of Burke and Kant, and contemporary literary theory. It stresses that language should be referential and argues for a way of reading that would not provide...

While his memory languished under Nazi censorship, Franz Kafka covertly circulated through occupied France and soon emerged as a cultural icon, read by the most influential intellectuals of the time as a prophet of the rampant bureaucracy, totalitarian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985195694Author Markus WessendorfFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Camden House (NY)Publisher Camden House (NY)Weight(grams) 152g

Originally published in 1986, this book is an interpretative survey of the development of political writing in the former Federal Republic of Germany. It illustrates how intertwined writing is with politics, whether by the political commitment of writers...

Originally published in 1951 this full length study gives an account of Buchner's life and personality, together with an account of his three plays, his unfinished short story, his scientific publications and his translations of Hugo.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781314032307Author Kuno FranckeFormat PaperbackPage Count 594Imprint HardPress PublishingPublisher HardPress LtdWeight(grams) 152g

Croce admired Goethe partly because the latter possessed a knowledge of human nature in all its aspects but nonetheless kept his mind above and beyond political sympathies and the quarrels of nations. In this volume originally published in English in...

Offers readings of key contemporary trends and themes in the vibrant genre of short-story writing in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, with attention to major practitioners and translations of two representative stories. Since the 1990s, the short...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781314032253Author Kuno FranckeFormat PaperbackPage Count 578Imprint HardPress PublishingPublisher HardPress LtdWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781314032215Author Kuno FranckeFormat PaperbackPage Count 604Imprint HardPress PublishingPublisher HardPress LtdWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781314032208Author Kuno FranckeFormat PaperbackPage Count 620Imprint HardPress PublishingPublisher HardPress LtdWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781314032147Author Kuno FranckeFormat PaperbackPage Count 612Imprint HardPress PublishingPublisher HardPress LtdWeight(grams) 152g