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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374515225Author Isaac Bashevis SingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854572304Author Michael CowanFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Institute of Modern Languages ResearchPublisher University of London School of...

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...

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...

T.J. Reed's study has long established itself as the standard work in English on Thomas mann, and offers as comprehensive a view of Mann's fiction and thought as is available in any language. It is based on a coherent close reading of Mann's oeuvre,...

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...

The 'Jewish Question' in German Literature, 1749-1939 is an erudite and searching literary study of the uneasy position of the Jews in Germany and Austria from the first pleas for Jewish emancipation during the Enlightenment to the eve of the Holocaust...

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...

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...

Assessing 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...

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,...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903521765Author David ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Viking Society for Northern ResearchPublisher Viking Society for Northern...

A programme text edition published to coincide with the world premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 5 February 2009. 'This is our house underneath all this mildew and junk. I know every stone.' As a house passes from owner to owner, and from...

Women in the Federal Republic, the former GDR, Switzerland and Austria have initiated a remarkable literary movement, especially after 1968, which is also attracting growing attention elsewhere. Informed by critical feminist and literary theory, this...

Crime 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...

From the translator of the bestselling Poetic Edda (Hackett, 2015) comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old Norse literature. Together the two sagas recount the story of seven generations of a single legendary heroic family and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954054274Author Esther KreitmanFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint David PaulPublisher David Paul

Containing three of Goethe's major prose works, this volume explores a range of themes: unfulfilled love, infidelity, divorce, tragic love, fantasy, and moral rebirth. One of Goethe's best known works, The Sorrows of Young Werther, explores the extremes...

The first sustained interrogation of travel in Sebald's literary and essayistic work, employing multivalent and new critical perspectives. W.G. Sebald (1944-2001) is the most prominent and perhaps the most enigmatic German-language writer of recent...

New, wide-ranging essays on the controversial poet, who was both a harbinger of Modernism and a critic of modernity. Stefan George (1868-1933) is along with Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Rainer Maria Rilke one of the pre-eminent German poets of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621480914Author Rudolf SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 470Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher SteinerBooks, IncWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Enlightenment - both the phenomenon specific to the eighteenth century and the continuing trend in Western thought - is an attempt to dispel ignorance, achieve mastery of a potentially hostile environment, and contain fear of the unknown by promoting...

For many artists and intellectuals in East Germany, daily life had an undeniably surreal aspect, from the numbing repetition of Communist Party jargon to the fear and paranoia engendered by the Stasi. Echoes of Surrealism surveys the ways in which a...

The Georg Buchner Prize is the highest literary honor for German language writers, and the full extent of Buchner's influence-from Gerhart Hauptmann to Christa Wolf, Max Reinhardt to Robert Wilson, Alban Berg to Tom Waits-defies cataloging. When Georg...

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 &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907570080Author Rory McTurkFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages & Lit.Publisher Society for the Study...

Wolfram's Parzival continues to inspire and influence, in modern times works as diverse as Wagner's Parsifal and Lohengrin, Franz Kafka's The Castle, Terry Gilliam's film The Fisher King, and Umberto Eco's Baudolino. Vast in its scope, incomparably...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907570974Author Rory McTurkFormat HardbackImprint Medium Aevum Monographs / SsmllPublisher Medium Aevum Monographs / SsmllWeight(grams) 148g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826403018Author Georg BuchnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555540494Author Heiner MllerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Performing Arts JournalsPublisher Johns Hopkins University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854572519Author Mererid Puw DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Institute of Modern Languages ResearchPublisher University of London School of...

Up-to-date criticism and commentary on the greatest of the German courtly epics. Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival expands and transforms the Arthurian tradition into a grand depiction of the medieval cosmos around 1200. Standing between clerical and...

"German Romantic criticism represents a fundamentally dialectical type of thinking, " says Ernst Behler in his Foreword. "With Romantic criticism we are on the threshold of that phase of modernity of which we are still the inheritors...

In early modern Europe it has been estimated that up to one in two children did not survive to the age of ten. In the light of this high mortality rate, some historians have argued that parents did not form close relationships with their children,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587905582Author Katzenelson YitzhakFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Regent PressPublisher Regent PressWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm...

In eighteenth-century Germany, the aesthetician Friedrich Wilhelm Basileus Ramdohr could write of the phenomenon of men who evoke sexual desire in other men; Johann Joachim Winckelmann could place admiration of male beauty at the center of his art...

In this innovative study, Tyler Whitney demonstrates how a transformation and militarization of the civilian soundscape in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries left indelible traces on the literature that defined the period. Both formally...

A collection of the work of Uwe Johnson. It includes "Speculations about Jakob," a Faulknerian novel; selections from "Anniversaries: From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl"; Anniversaries II: From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl"; and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854572250Author K. F. HilliardFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Institute of Modern Languages ResearchPublisher University of London School of...