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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...

On Weight and the Will: The Forces of Form in German Literature and Aesthetics, 1890-1930 charts a modern history of form as emergent from force. Offering a provocative alternative to the imagery of crisis and estrangement that has preoccupied...

andererseits is a collaborative project undertaken by students and faculties of universities in the U.S. (Duke and the University of Notre Dame), in Luxembourg (University of Luxembourg), and in Germany (University of Duisburg-Essen). It provides a forum...

The Roma are Europe's largest minority, and yet they remain one of the most misunderstood and underrepresented. Scholarship on the Roma in German-speaking countries has focused mostly on the portrayal of "Zigeuner/Gypsies" in literature by...

After a long period of neglect, emotions have become an important topic within literary studies. This collection of essays stresses the complex link between aesthetic and non-aesthetic emotional components and discusses emotional patterns by focusing on...

A Knight at the Opera examines the remarkable and unknown role that the medieval legend (and Wagner opera) Tannh user played in Jewish cultural life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book analyzes how three of the greatest Jewish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487598945Author Charles N GennoFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 272g

«An important contribution to understanding our culinary journey in Ireland from a time when food was regarded merely as sustenance. As a nation, we have grown in confidence. Up to relatively recently in Ireland, we had a serious inferiority complex and...

Second-person storytelling is a continually present and diverse technique in the history of literature that appears only once in the oeuvre of an author. Based on key narratives of the postwar period, Evgenia Iliopoulou approaches the phenomenon in an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787077225Author Susanne BaackmannFormat PaperbackImprint Peter Lang LtdPublisher Peter Lang LtdWeight(grams) 152g

Three old ladies are looking forward to eating the delicious fat pancake they've just made. But the pancake has other ideas! It jumps out of the pan, rolls out the door and into the woods as fast as it can go, calling, "You can't catch me!" All...

Hermann Broch (1886-1951) is remembered among English-speaking readers for his novels The Sleepwalkers and The Death of Virgil, and among German-speaking readers for his novels as well as his works on moral and political philosophy, his aesthetic theory,...

Who of us could not confess to liking food, sleeping and things that shine - at least sometimes? Or dream about becoming rich? This is also true of Sniff, who is fundamentally sweet-natured and who willingly participates in everything, so long as it...

Drawing on the themes of current feminist thought, the author explores several examples of German literature and poetry to show how fictional mother-daughter characters played out the contradictions of the social and sexual conflicts in medieval society...

First English translation of the final work of Theodor Fontane, one of Germany's most significant novelists. Theodor Fontane (1819-98), widely regarded as Germany's most significant novelist between Goethe and Thomas Mann, pioneered the German novel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805212679Author Franz KafkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 130mm *...

Beyond the Mother Tongue examines distinct forms of multilingualism, such as writing in one socially unsanctioned "mother tongue" about another language (Franz Kafka); mobilizing words of foreign derivation as part of a multilingual constellation within...

Bloodhoof is a compulsively modern recasting of the ancient Eddic poem Skirnimal - a minimalist epic telling of the abduction of Gerdur Gymisdottir from a land of giants and her eventual return from the court of Freyr with her beloved son. The journey is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714525907Author Helmut HeissenbuttelFormat PaperbackPage Count 119Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

Two Studies of Friedrich Hoelderlin shows how the poet enacts a radical theory of meaning that culminates in a unique and still groundbreaking concept of revolution, one that begins with a revolutionary understanding of language. The product of an...

"We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little precision in matters of the soul."--Robert Musil Best known as author of the novel The Man without Qualities, Robert Musil wrote these essays in Vienna and Berlin between 1911 and...

In his "Duino Elegies", Rainer Maria Rilke suggests that animals enjoy direct access to a realm of being - the open - concealed from humans by the workings of consciousness and self-consciousness. In his own reading of Rilke, Martin Heidegger reclaims...

A new critical assessment of the works of the Austrian-Jewish author, in whom there has been a recent resurgence of interest, from the perspective of world literature. The twenty-first century has seen a renewed surge of cultural and critical...

Max Nordau was a famous writer, a practicing physician, a bourgeois examplar of enterprise and energy when his Degeneration appeared in Germany in 1892. He argued that the spirit of the times was characterized by enervation, exhaustion, hysteria,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714503592Author Wolfgang BorchertFormat PaperbackPage Count 257Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

Although Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) is widely regarded as one of the most important twentieth-century authors writing in German, her novels and stories have sometimes been viewed narrowly as portraits of women as victims. In this...

In a book that confronts our society's obsession with sexual violence, Maria Tatar seeks the meaning behind one of the most disturbing images of twentieth-century Western culture: the violated female corpse. This image is so prevalent in painting,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903521345Author Snorri SturlusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Viking Society for Northern ResearchPublisher Viking Society for Northern...

A splendid new translation of an extraordinary work of modern literature-featuring facing-page commentary by Kafka's acclaimed biographerIn 1917 and 1918, Franz Kafka wrote a set of more than 100 aphorisms, known as the Zurau aphorisms, after the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374530594Author Professor Elias CanettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903521819Author Anita LassenFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Viking Society for Northern ResearchPublisher Viking Society for Northern...

Translated by Ellen von Nardroff and Ernest H. von Nardroff The reflections on art and literature that Goethe produced throughout his life are the premise and corollary of his work as poet, novelist, and man of science. This volume contains such...

The discourse of Heimat, meaning homeland or roots, has been a medium of debate on German identity between region and nation for at least a century. Four phases parallel Germany's discontinuous history: Heimat literature as a response to modernization...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903521758Author M J DriscollFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Viking Society for Northern ResearchPublisher Viking Society for Northern...

Interest in the Swiss modernist writer Robert Walser (1878-1956) has widened thanks to high praise from intellectuals such as Susan Sontag, W. G. Sebald, and J. M. Coetzee, and an increasing number of his books are now available in English translation...

Over the last twenty years, critical discussion of Thomas Mann has highlighted the role of his homosexuality for his creative work. This not only is presented as a dynamic underlying Mann's creative work, but also is the supposed reason for the theme of...

Western culture has been marked by deep divisions between action and contemplation, intervention and passivity, decisiveness and withdrawal. Conceived as radical opposites, these terms structure the history of religion, philosophy and political theory,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374530600Author Professor Elias CanettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss &...

A darkly hilarious tale of a model family's disintegration. Professor Siem Sigerius - maths genius, jazz lover, judo champion, Renaissance man. When Aaron meets his girlfriend Joni's family for the first time, her multitalented father could hardly be a...

The first study to utilize the Klagenfurt Edition of Musil's Nachlass offers a close reading of textual variations, emphasizing Musil's commitment to the artist's role in re-creating the world. Robert Musil, known to be a scientific and philosophical...