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The 'Jewish Question' in German Literature, 1749-1939: Emancipation and its Discontents by Professor Ritchie Robertson 9780199248889
€68.66The '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... -
Children's Literature in Hitler's Germany: The Cultural Policy of National Socialism by Christa Kamenetsky 9780821423646
RRP: €30.93€26.76Between 1933 and 1945, National Socialists enacted a focused effort to propagandize children's literature by distorting existing German values and traditions with the aim of creating a homogenous "folk community." A vast censorship committee in Berlin... -
Texts by Helmut Heissenbuttel 9780714525907
RRP: €7.08€6.13Apologies 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 -
Deborah by Esther Kreitman 9780954054274
€17.95Apologies 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 -
Bonita Avenue by Peter Buwalda
RRP: €10.70€7.24A 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... -
On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebard by Eric L. Santner
RRP: €32.13€31.50In 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... -
Tristan's Shadow: Sexuality and the Total Work of Art After Wagner by Adrian Daub 9780226082134
RRP: €49.98€48.09Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, and Siegfried. Parsifal. Tristan und Isolde. Both revered and reviled, Richard Wagner conceived some of the nineteenth century's most important operatic productions - and created some of the most indelible characters ever to... -
Duino Elegies by David Oswald 9783856307479
RRP: €34.50€23.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783856307479Author David OswaldFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Daimon VerlagPublisher Daimon VerlagWeight(grams) 248g -
The World as Metaphor in Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities: Possibility as Reality by Professor Genese Grill
RRP: €29.74€28.46The 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... -
Old Norse Made New: Essays on the Post-Medieval Reception of Old Norse Literature and Culture by David Clark 9780903521765
RRP: €11.90€9.82Apologies 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... -
The Penguin Shakespeare Dictionary by Sandra Clark 9780140514216
€19.04This text contains a comprehensive A-Z list of all Shakespeare's plays, all of the characters in those plays, as well as persons and places mentioned in the plays; the principal actors, acting companies, and theatres of the time; other playwrights,... -
Rousseau-Kant-Goethe by Ernst Cassirer 9780691621265
RRP: €35.70€27.72Translated by James Gutmann, Paul Oskar Kristeller, and John Herman Randall, Jr. Originally published in 1945. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the... -
On Tarrying Joseph Vogl 9780857427243
RRP: €11.89€11.65Western 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,... -
Post-war Women's Writing in German: Feminist Critical Approaches by Chris Weedon 9781571819024
RRP: €117.81€96.24Women 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... -
Goethe, Volume 3: Essays on Art and Literature by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 9780691036571
RRP: €41.65€33.01Translated 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... -
Crime Fiction in German: Der Krimi by Katharina Hall 9781783168170
RRP: €20.22€15.58Crime 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... -
The Saga of the Volsungs: with The Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok by Jackson Crawford 9781624666346
RRP: €59.50€50.82From 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... -
Vienna Is Different: Jewish Writers in Austria from the Fin-de-SiAcle to the Present by Hillary Hope Herzog 9780857451811
RRP: €117.81€95.76Assessing 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... -
Resisting the Power of Mea Culpa: A Story of Twentieth-Century Ireland by Gerard Rodgers 9781788746564
RRP: €41.29€36.53This is both a memoir of childhood trauma and a searing work of social criticism. Through his own experience of clerical abuse and his struggle with the system that allowed it to happen, the author documents an important period of social change in... -
Georg Buchner: The Major Works: A Norton Critical Edition by Georg Büchner 9780393933512
€24.99The 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... -
Stone by Marius von Mayenburg 9781408115145
RRP: €14.27€14.22A 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... -
The Undiscover`d Country - W.G. Sebald and the Poetics of Travel by Markus Zisselsberger
RRP: €39.26€35.26The 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... -
A Companion to the Works of Stefan George by Jens Rieckmann
RRP: €39.26€34.78New, 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... -
Goethe's Faust in the Light of Anthroposophy by Rudolf Steiner 9781621480914
RRP: €41.65€34.77Apologies 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 *... -
The Aesthetics of Fear in German Romanticism: Volume 77 by Paola Mayer
RRP: €42.84€38.06Enlightenment - 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... -
Echoes of Surrealism: Challenging Socialist Realism in East German Literature, 1945-1990 by Gerrit-Jan Berendse 9781800730687
RRP: €117.81€95.76For 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 Secret Heart of the Clock by Professor Elias Canetti 9780374530600
RRP: €20.23€13.30Apologies 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 &... -
The Plural of Happiness by Herman De Coninck
RRP: €14.28€12.09Herman 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... -
Studies in Ragnar's Saga Lodbrokar and Its Major Scandinavian Analogues by Rory McTurk 9780907570974
€30.29Apologies 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 -
Parzival - With Titurel and the Love Lyrics by Wolfram Von Eschenbach
RRP: €113.05€108.39Wolfram'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... -
Complete Works and Letters by Georg Buchner 9780826403018
€45.39Apologies 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... -
Writing and the West German Protest Movements: The Textual Revolution by Mererid Puw Davies 9780854572519
€32.61Apologies 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... -
The Battle: Plays, Prose, Poems by Heiner Muller
RRP: €14.27€9.52Apologies 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)... -
A Companion to Wolfram`s Parzival by Will Hasty 9781571134585
RRP: €39.26€34.78Up-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 by Friedrich Schlegel 9780826402622
€39.58"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... -
Poetry and Parental Bereavement in Early Modern Lutheran Germany by Anna Linton 9780199233366
€127.95In 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,... -
The Song of the Massacred Jewish People by Katzenelson Yitzhak 9781587905582
RRP: €17.85€13.47Apologies 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... -
Warm Brothers: Queer Theory and the Age of Goethe by Robert Tobin
RRP: €64.26€55.68In 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... -
Goethe, Volume 11: The Sorrows of Young Werther--Elective Affinities--Novella by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
RRP: €29.75€23.31Containing 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... -
Eardrums: Literary Modernism as Sonic Warfare by Tyler Whitney 9780810140219
RRP: €41.59€14.59In 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...