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Literary Autobiography: Contemporary Novelists and their Self-Representations Melissa Schuh 9783032004109
Booksplease Price: $220.55Why do novelists write about themselves? What modes do novelists use to manipulate representations of their personality? Why is it often late in their career that novelists write about their own... -
Günter Grass Ronald Hayman 9781032889382
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $92.31Gunter Grass is one of the writers who grew up in a Germany already in the grip of Nazism. None of them has found better ways than his of translating the sordid history of the movement into fiction;... -
Günter Grass Ronald Hayman 9781032889665
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $49.22Gunter Grass is one of the writers who grew up in a Germany already in the grip of Nazism. None of them has found better ways than his of translating the sordid history of the movement into fiction;... -
The 'Danzig Trilogy' of Gunter Grass: A Study of the Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, and Dog Years by John Reddick 9780156238298
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $36.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156238298Author John ReddickFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner... -
The Tin Drum: Vintage War Günter Grass 9781784879877
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45Bitter and impassioned, The Tin Drum delivers a scathing dissection of Germany and Poland under the Nazis.On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and... -
The Living Statue: A Legend Günter Grass 9780811238106
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $17.86At the end of the 1980s, a writer on a book tour, who very much resembles Grass, passes through East Germany and visits the Cathedral of Naumburg with its famous twelve donor statues. He invites the... -
Four Plays: Flood/Mister, Mister/Only Ten Minutes to Buffalo/The Wicked Cooks by Gunter Grass 9780156331500
RRP: $33.15Booksplease Price: $27.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156331500Author Gunter GrassFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher... -
The Politics of Remembrance in the Novels of Günter Grass by Alex Donovan Cole 9781032386140
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08This manuscript argues for the importance of Günter Grass as a political thinker in addition to his status as a novelist and public intellectual, capable of forming ethical responses to contemporary... -
Gunter Grass and the Genders of German Memory - From The Tin Drum to Peeling the Onion and Beyond by Timothy B. Malchow 9781640140851
RRP: $185.25Booksplease Price: $178.17Gunter Grass (1927-2015) was a fixture at the heart of German cultural life, a self-styled spokesman of the Kulturnation (cultural nation) who imagined it linking him to canonical male literary... -
The German Lesson by Siegfried Lenz
Booksplease Price: $31.88In this quiet and devastating novel about the rise of fascism, Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, is assigned to write a routine German lesson on the "The Joys of Duty."... -
Verachtung und Respekt der Ich-Erzahlinstanzen in den Prosatexten 1934 und 1970 von Gunter Grass aus Mein Jahrhundert by Marc-Andre Seemann 9783656865674
RRP: $43.88Booksplease Price: $34.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783656865674Author Marc-Andre SeemannFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Grin PublishingPublisher... -
The Novel of Crepuscular Universes - Thomas Mann, Robert Musil, Hermann Broch, Witold Gombrowicz, Gunter Grass, Curzio Malaparte, Heinrich Boell, L.- by Ion Vlad 9780880336635
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $56.36Ion Vlad investigates the distinct heraldry of "the novel of ideas" and whether this taxonomy is still viable within the wide and heterogeneous sphere of narrative. He closely reads the work of... -
Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home by Alexander Wolff
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.09'Remarkable lives in extraordinary times - a gripping and exceptional literary journey.' Philippe Sands'Alexander Wolff is keen, after a generation of silence, to follow the untold stories wherever... -
Endpapers: Uncovering a Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home by Alexander Wolff
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $38.36'Remarkable lives in extraordinary times - a gripping and exceptional literary journey.' Philippe Sands'Alexander Wolff is keen, after a generation of silence, to follow the untold stories wherever... -
Heart Sutra by Yan Lianke
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $28.35Multi-prizewinning and internationally acclaimed Yan Lianke -- 'China's most controversial novelist' (New Yorker) -- returns with a campus novel like no other following a young Buddhist as she... -
The Right to Difference: Interculturality and Human Rights in Contemporary German Literature by Nicole Coleman 9780472132751
Booksplease Price: $131.14The Right to Difference examines novels that depict human rights violations in order to explore causes of intergroup violence within diverse societies, using Germany as a test case. In these texts,... -
The German Joyce by Robert Weninger 9780813062426
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53In August 1919, a production of James Joyce's Exiles was mounted at the Munich Schauspielhaus and quickly fell due to harsh criticism. The reception marked the beginning of a dynamic association... -
Futurity: Contemporary Literature and the Quest for the Past by Amir Eshel 9780226924953
Booksplease Price: $94.11When looking at how trauma is represented in literature and the arts, we tend to focus on the weight of the past. In this book, Amir Eshel suggests that this retrospective gaze has trapped us in a... -
Heart Sutra Yan Lianke 9781529925050
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61Prizewinning Yan Lianke returns with a campus novel like no other following a young Buddhist as she journeys through worldly temptationYahui is a young Buddhist at university. But this is no ordinary... -
The Bridge Over The Neroch And Other Works: Introduced by Jon McGregor by Leonid Tsypkin 9780571386918
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25"Everything is always topsy-turvy here," he said.A small town in the Ural mountains is the backdrop to the heartbreak and joys of a Russian-Jewish family, witnessing romance and illness, funerals and... -
The Confusions of Young Torless by J. M. Coetzee 9780142180006
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $20.96At a bleak, isolated military school on the fringes of the Austro- Hungarian Empire, four young cadets - Torless, Beineberg, Reiting and their victim Basini - drift even further away from their... -
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.83Discover Mann's Nobel Prizewinning semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic.The Buddenbrook clan is everything you'd expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family - wealthy, esteemed,... -
Imperial Fictions: German Literature Before and Beyond the Nation-State by Todd Kontje
Booksplease Price: $147.32Imperial Fictions explores ways in which writers from late antiquity to the present have imagined communities before and beyond the nation-state. It takes as its point of departure challenges to the... -
Seventeenth Century German Prose: Hans Jacob Christoph, H.J.C.Von Grimmelshausen, G.W.Von Leibniz, Martin Opitz and Others by Lynne Tatlock 9780826407115
Booksplease Price: $73.73Foreword by Gunter Grass This anthology gives a sense of the broad range of prose writing, the many interests of the seventeenth century intellectual, a rich diversity of genres, fictions and... -
Novels and Arguments: Inventing Rhetorical Criticism by Zahava K. McKeon 9780226560342
Booksplease Price: $74.92In this absorbing study-the first comprehensive exploration of the rhetoric of the novel-Zahava Karl McKeon investigates the complex interrelations of critical poetics, grammars, dialectics, and... -
The Set-Up: An Anatomy of the English Theatre Today Ronald Hayman 9781032889672
RRP: $163.78Booksplease Price: $143.70Originally published in 1973, this book investigates the power and the pressures behind English theatre in the late 20th Century, analysing its structure and systems, and the way that money and... -
The Set-Up: An Anatomy of the English Theatre Today Ronald Hayman 9781032889757
RRP: $62.38Booksplease Price: $57.51Originally published in 1973, this book investigates the power and the pressures behind English theatre in the late 20th Century, analysing its structure and systems, and the way that money and... -
The Novel in German since 1990 by Stuart Taberner 9781107449305
RRP: $79.95Booksplease Price: $78.18Diversity is one of the defining characteristics of contemporary German-language literature, not just in terms of the variety of authors writing in German today, but also in relation to theme, form,... -
Secret History Michael Hulse 9781906570248
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.84Almost painfully direct, the poems of 'The Secret History' testify to a new depth and a new tenderness in Michael Hulse's voice. The shadow of his dead father and the light of new love meet here in a... -
Nobel Writers on Writing Ottar G. Draugsvold 9780786466092
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $38.20Since its inception, the Nobel Prize for literature has given a very public voice to some of the world's greatest writers, and their responses to the honor--their acceptance speeches--have often... -
Born under Auschwitz - Melancholy Traditions in Postwar German Literature by Mary Cosgrove
Booksplease Price: $187.41In German Studies the literary phenomenon of melancholy, which has a longstanding and diverse history in European letters, has typically been associated with the Early Modern and Baroque periods,... -
Cultures of Forgery: Making Nations, Making Selves by Judith Ryan
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $33.66In Cultures of Forgery, leading literary studies and cultural studies scholars examine the double meaning of the word "forge"-to create or to form, on the one hand, and to make falsely, on the other... -
The Novel in German since 1990 by Stuart Taberner
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $159.94Diversity is one of the defining characteristics of contemporary German-language literature, not just in terms of the variety of authors writing in German today, but also in relation to theme, form,... -
Way to Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy by Karl Jaspers
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $22.50One of the founders of existentialism, the eminent philosopher Karl Jaspers here presents for the general reader an introduction to philosophy. In doing so, he also offers a lucid summary of his own... -
Contemporary German Fiction: Writing in the Berlin Republic by Stuart Taberner 9780521174046
Booksplease Price: $62.63The profound political and social changes Germany has undergone since 1989 have been reflected in an extraordinarily rich range of contemporary writing. Contemporary German Fiction focuses on the... -
The German Lesson by Siegfried Lenz 9780811209823
RRP: $44.75Booksplease Price: $35.45Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, is one day assigned to write a routine German lesson on the "The Joys of Duty." Overfamiliar with these "joys," Siggi sets down his life since... -
Collaborative Translation by Anthony Cordingley 9781350075290
Booksplease Price: $73.73For centuries, the art of translation has been misconstrued as a solitary affair. Yet, from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, groups of translators comprised of specialists of different languages formed... -
Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification and National Identity by Jan-Werner Muller 9780300190731
Booksplease Price: $66.53How did German intellectuals react to unification and how have they conceived the country's national identity and its new international position? This important book not only examines changing... -
The A to Z of Postwar German Literature by William Grange 9780810876187
Booksplease Price: $100.82Some authors strongly criticized attempts to rebuild a German literary culture in the aftermath of World War II, while others actively committed themselves to "dealing with the German past." There... -
Pow! by Mo Yan
RRP: $26.33Booksplease Price: $25.19In this novel by the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Mo Van, a benign old monk listens to a prospective novice's tale of depravity, violence, and carnivorous excess while a nice little family...