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Literature of the Sturm und Drang CHHGL 6 by David Hill
RRP: £110.00£105.14"Sturm und Drang" refers to a set of values and a style of writing that arose in Germany in the second half of the eighteenth century, a particularly intense kind of pre-Romanticism that has often been represented as marking the beginning of an... -
The Chain of Things: Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940 by Eric Downing
RRP: £26.99£23.32In The Chain of Things, Eric Downing shows how the connection between divinatory magic and reading shaped the experience of reading and aesthetics among nineteenth-century realists and modernist thinkers. He explores how writers, artists, and critics... -
The Plural of Happiness by Herman De Coninck
RRP: £12.00£10.16Herman de Coninck, Belgium's leading poet for many decades, appears in English in a single volume for the first time. Witty, tender, trenchant, wise, de Coninck's poems range from playful, terse love lyrics to darkly ironic, somberly truthful... -
The Cinema's Third Machine: Writing on Film in Germany, 1907-1933 by Sabine Hake
RRP: £50.00£46.06The improvements in the technology, artistry, and distribution of motion pictures coincided with the traumas of modern Germany. It is hardly to be wondered that filmmakers frequently turned their cameras on Germany's social and political problems that... -
The Literary Politics of Mitteleuropa - Reconfiguring Spatial Memory in Austrian and Yugoslav Literature after 1945 by Yvonne Zivkovic
RRP: £95.00£91.08The German term Mitteleuropa, or Central Europe, was never just a geographical concept: it connoted extending German influence to the east. In the 1980s, a number of eastern European dissident writers, including Konrad, Milosz, and Kundera, defiantly... -
Fractured Frontiers - The Exile Writing of Nazi Germany and Francoist Spain by Monica Jato
RRP: £95.00£91.08Writers opposed to National Socialism or Francoism have been considered either territorial exiles, who left their country, or "inner exiles," who did not. Those who stayed were initially accorded greater status, while those who left were... -
Edinburgh German Yearbook 10 - Queering German Culture by Leanne Dawson
RRP: £80.00£76.61Contributions exploring the representation and reality of LGBTQ+ individuals and issues in historical and contemporary German-speaking culture. The German-speaking lands have a long history of engagement, ranging from celebratory to horrific, with... -
Witnessing, Memory, Poetics - H. G. Adler and W. G. Sebald by Helen Finch
RRP: £95.00£91.08Investigates the connections between German writers H.G. Adler and W.G. Sebald and reveals a new hybrid paradigm of writing about the Holocaust in light of the wider literary-political implications of Holocaust representation since 1945. Since... -
Goethe Yearbook 20 by Daniel Purdy
RRP: £75.00£72.33The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, encouraging North American Goethe scholarship by publishing original English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit while also... -
Edinburgh German Yearbook 5 - Brecht and the GDR: Politics, Culture, Posterity by Laura Bradley
RRP: £80.00£76.61The avant-garde writer and director Bertolt Brecht left the West for good in 1949, returning to East Berlin and founding the Berliner Ensemble. While he quickly became identified internationally as the cultural figurehead of the young socialist state,... -
Goethe Yearbook 17 by Daniel Purdy
RRP: £75.00£72.33The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, publishing original English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit, while also welcoming contributions from scholars around... -
Schiller the Dramatist - A Study of Gesture in the Plays by John Guthrie
RRP: £80.00£76.61Many aspects of the works of Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) have attracted attention. His work as a philosopher and pioneering thinker in poetics and aesthetics and as a historian have recently been the focus of much attention. But Schiller's dramas have... -
German and European Poetics after the Holocaust - Crisis and Creativity by Gert Hofmann
RRP: £95.00£91.08Crisis presents chances for change and creativity: Adorno's famous dictum that writing poetry after Auschwitz would be barbaric has haunted discourse on poetics, but has also given rise to poetic and theoretical acts of resistance. The essays in this... -
Ghetto Writing - Traditional and Eastern Jewry in German-Jewish Literature from Heine to Hilsenrath by Anne Fuchs
RRP: £80.00£76.61Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries ghetto fiction played an important part in the expression of a particularly German-Jewish quest for identity. The volume Ghetto Writing takes the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the publication of Leopold... -
Kafka`s The Castle and the Critical Imagination by Stephen D. Dowden
RRP: £65.00£61.81Kafka's final, unfinished novel, The Castle, remains one of the most celebrated yet most impenetrable masterpieces of modernist fiction, and a focus of literary criticsm and theory. In this chronological survey of the critical attention it has attracted,... -
The Classical Centre: Goethe and Weimar, 1775-1832 by T. J. Reed
RRP: £31.99£28.33Originally 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... -
Necessary Luxuries: Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770-1815 by Matt Erlin
RRP: £26.99£23.32The consumer revolution of the eighteenth century brought new and exotic commodities to Europe from abroad-coffee, tea, spices, and new textiles to name a few. Yet one of the most widely distributed luxury commodities in the period was not new at all,... -
Politics and Truth in Hoelderlin - "Hyperion" and the Choreographic Project of Modernity by Anthony Curtis Adler
RRP: £95.00£90.68While few would question the importance of Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843) for the development of German idealism and twentieth-century literature, philosophy, and critical theory, Hoelderlin scholarship remains largely inaccessible to those working in... -
Renegotiating Postmemory - The Holocaust in Contemporary German-Language Jewish Literature by Maria Roca Lizarazu
£97.26With the disappearance of the eyewitness generation and the globalization of Holocaust memory, this book interrogates key concepts in Holocaust and trauma studies through an assessment of contemporary German-language Jewish authors. In the shifting... -
Improvisation as Art: Conceptual Challenges, Historical Perspectives by Edgar Landgraf
£33.63Improvisation as Art traces how modernity's emphasis on inventiveness has changed the meaning of improvisation; and how the ideals and laws that led improvisation to be banned from "high art" in the eighteenth century simultaneously enabled the inventive... -
Persistent Legacy - The Holocaust and German Studies by Erin McGlothlin
RRP: £95.00£91.08New essays by prominent scholars in German and Holocaust Studies exploring the boundaries and confluences between the fields and examining new transnational approaches to the Holocaust. In studies of Holocaust representation and memory, scholars of... -
Novel Affinities - Composing the Family in the German Novel, 1795-1830 by Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge
RRP: £80.00£76.61The novel, according to standard scholarly narratives, depicts an individual's path to maturity. Scholarship on the rise of the novel in Germany and in Europe more broadly, from Watt to Moretti, has essentially collapsed the genre into the individualist... -
Detectives, Dystopias, and Poplit - Studies in Modern German Genre Fiction by Bruce B. Campbell
RRP: £95.00£91.08Some of the most exciting research and teaching in the field of German Studies is being done on "genre fiction," including detective fiction, science fiction, and what is often called "poplit," to name but a few. Such non-canonical... -
Fictions from an Orphan State - Literary Reflections of Austria between Habsburg and Hitler by Andrew Barker
RRP: £80.00£76.61The literary flair of fin-de-siecle Vienna lived on after 1918 in the First Austrian Republic even as writers grappled with the consequences of a lost war and the vanished Habsburg Empire. Reacting to historical and political issues often distinct from... -
Heinrich von Kleist and Modernity by Bernd Fischer
RRP: £95.00£91.08Modernity, according to some views, poses the problem of homo politicus -- the problem of how to act in a moral universe without a "master narrative," without a final foundation. From this angle, the oeuvre of Heinrich von Kleist -- novellas,... -
Zarathustra`s Children - A Study of a Lost Generation of German Writers by Raymond Furness
RRP: £80.00£76.61The aim of this book is to explore "that post-Nietzschean archipelago of German literature which no one mind can hope to map, let alone inhabit" (Michael Hamburger) and to introduce it to the English-speaking reader for the first time, in... -
The Topography of Modernity: Karl Philipp Moritz and the Space of Autonomy by Elliott Schreiber
RRP: £16.99£15.07Karl Philipp Moritz (d. 1793) was one of the most innovative writers of the late Enlightenment in Germany. A novelist, travel writer, editor, and teacher he is probably best known today for his autobiographical novel Anton Reiser (1785-90) and for his... -
Goethe, Volume 5: From My Life: Campaign in France 1792-Siege of Mainz by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
RRP: £30.00£23.29Campaign in France 1792 -Siege of Mainz, Goethe's narrative of the unsuccessful campaign and the siege, has become a classic text for the history of Franco-German relations during the revolutionary period. A product of recollection, historical hindsight,... -
The Black Signs by Lars Morch Finborud
RRP: £13.00£8.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783943196290Author Lars Morch FinborudFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Broken Dimanche PressPublisher Broken Dimanche PressWeight(grams) 264g -
Andreas Gryphius - A Modern Perspective by Blake Lee Spahr
RRP: £80.00£76.61Andreas Gryphius (1616-1664) was the greatest German poet and dramatist of the 17th century, yet he remains virtually unknown outside his own country. One of the chief reasons for his relative obscurity outside Germany is that almost all studies devoted... -
Pretexts for Writing: German Romantic Prefaces, Literature, and Philosophy by Sean M. Williams
RRP: £27.99£24.14Around 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... -
Edinburgh German Yearbook 12 - Repopulating the Eighteenth Century: Second-Tier Writing in the German Enlightenment by Michael Wood
RRP: £80.00£76.61German literature and thought flourished in the eighteenth century, when a culture considered a European backwater came to assert worldwide significance. This was an age in which repeated attempts to reform German literary and philosophical culture were... -
Writing the Revolution - The Construction of "1968" in Germany by Ingo Cornils
RRP: £95.00£91.08In Germany, the concept of "1968" is enduring and synonymous with the German Student Movement, and is viewed, variously, as a fundamental liberalization, a myth, a second foundation, or an irritation. The movement's aims - radical... -
Business Rhetoric in German Novels - From Buddenbrooks to the Global Corporation by Ernest Schonfield
RRP: £95.00£91.08Throughout the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first, Germany has maintained its position as one of the world's largest economies. In the literature of this period, business is often depicted as a performance that requires great linguistic... -
The Long Shadow of the Past - Contemporary Austrian Literature, Film, and Culture by Katya Krylova
£97.282018 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title The process of coming to terms with its National Socialist past has been a long and difficult one in Austria. It is only over the past thirty years that the country's view of its role during the Third Reich has... -
Heimat, Space, Narrative - Toward a Transnational Approach to Flight and Expulsion by Friederike Eigler
RRP: £80.00£76.61At the end of the Second World War, millions of Germans and Poles fled or were expelled from the border regions of what had been their countries. This monograph examines how, in Cold War and post-Cold War Europe since the 1970s, writers have responded to... -
Orienting the Self - The German Literary Encounter with the Eastern Other by Debra N. Prager
RRP: £95.00£91.08For centuries, Europe's eastward gaze has been wary if not hostile. Medieval man envisaged grotesque beings at the world's edge and scanned the steppes and straits on the immediate horizon for the Asian or Arab hordes that might swarm across them... -
Emerging German-Language Novelists of the Twenty-First Century by Lyn Marven
RRP: £29.99£24.27After the international success in the 1990s of authors such as Bernhard Schlink, Marcel Beyer, and Thomas Brussig, an impressive number of new German-language novelists are making a significant impact. Some, like Karen Duve, Daniel Kehlmann, and Sasa... -
Aging and Old-Age Style in Gunter Grass, Ruth Kl - The Mannerism of a Late Period by Stuart Taberner
RRP: £80.00£76.61Demographers say that by the year 2060, every seventh person in Germany will be aged eighty or older, and every third person over sixty-five. The prediction for other Western countries is scarcely different. Indeed, the aging society is seen by some as a... -
Translingual Identities - Language and the Self in Stefan Heym and Jakov Lind by Tamar Steinitz
RRP: £80.00£76.61Explores the psychology of literary translingualism in the works of two authors, finding it expressed as loss and fragmentation in one case and as opportunity and mediation in the other. The works of translingual writers-those who write in a language...