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Revealing Lives: Autobiography, Biography, and Gender by Susan Groag Bell 9780791404362
Booksplease Price: £26.07In this book gender is the lens through which autobiography and biography are scrutinized. The authors show what is revealed when they magnify the gendered aspects of both men's and women's writing... -
Berlin Stories by Philip Hensher
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Berlin, in the words of Philip Hensher, editor of this anthology, 'has always been a city of desperate modernity', both in terms of urban architecture - largely a creation of the progressive 19th... -
Memory and Narrative: The Weave of Life-Writing by James Olney 9780226628165
Booksplease Price: £95.26Presenting an account of how the weave of life-writing has altered over time to arrive at its present form, this text tells the story of an evolving literary form that took its origins in the... -
Teaching Double Negatives: Disadvantage and Dissent at Community College by Robert Cowan 9781433155673
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £38.17Teaching Double Negatives: Disadvantage and Dissent at Community College asks whether exploring narratives that subvert dominant Western paradigms of progress in classrooms enables students to... -
Memory and Narrative: The Weave of Life-writing by James Olney
Booksplease Price: £30.73Presenting an account of how the weave of life-writing has altered over time to arrive at its present form, this text tells the story of an evolving literary form that took its origins in the... -
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Daughters of Eve: Women's Writing from the German Democratic Republic by Nancy Lukens 9780803228924 [USED COPY]
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £1.25This volume is the first anthology of contemporary East German women's writing in English translation. It will introduce scholars and general readers to writers whose voices are essential to an... -
Daughters of Eve: Women's Writing from the German Democratic Republic by Dorothy Rosenberg
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68This volume is the first anthology of contemporary East German women's writing in English translation. It will introduce scholars and general readers to writers whose voices are essential to an... -
Women's Writing and Historiography in the GDR by Helen Bridge 9780199255924
Booksplease Price: £73.63This study adopts an interdisciplinary approach to explore how literature by GDR women became a forum for critical approaches to history which challenged the official state discourse. An introductory... -
Haunted Narratives: Life Writing in an Age of Trauma by Gabriele Rippl 9781442646018
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £43.32Exploring life writing from a variety of cultural contexts, Haunted Narratives provides new insights into how individuals and communities across time and space deal with traumatic experiences and... -
The Honditsch Cross by Ingeborg Bachmann 9780811238564
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.00Written when Ingeborg Bachmann was only eighteen, The Honditsch Cross, her second-longest completed work of prose, is a historical novella set during the final days of the Napoleonic occupation of... -
Teaching Double Negatives: Disadvantage and Dissent at Community College by Robert Cowan 9781433155765
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £82.95Teaching Double Negatives: Disadvantage and Dissent at Community College asks whether exploring narratives that subvert dominant Western paradigms of progress in classrooms enables students to... -
Building Socialism: Architecture and Urbanism in East German Literature, 1955-1973 by Curtis Swope 9781501351778
Booksplease Price: £36.44Building Socialism reveals how East German writers' engagement with the rapidly changing built environment from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s constitutes an untold story about the emergence of... -
David Hockney: A Graphic Biography Giovanni Gastaldi 9783791380353
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99Dynamic and accessible, this graphic novel explores the complex and multifaceted career of one of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries' most influential and iconoclastic artists. David... -
Literary Intellectuals and the Dissolution of the State: Professionalism and Conformity in the GDR by Robert von Hallberg 9780226864983
Booksplease Price: £40.50For two generations, writers in the German Democratic Republic enjoyed a massive audience in their own country, a readership dependent on their works for a measure of utopian solace amid the grimness... -
Literary Intellectuals and the Dissolution of the State: Professionalism and Conformity in the GDR by Robert von Hallberg 9780226864976
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £90.73For two generations, writers in the German Democratic Republic enjoyed a massive audience in their own country, a readership dependent on their works for a measure of utopian solace amid the grimness... -
Rifts in Time and in the Self: The Female Subject in Two Generations of East German Women Writers by Cheryl Dueck 9789042009370
Booksplease Price: £72.07The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 marked the end of East Germany's socialist regime and a new beginning for a unified German Federal Republic. Cultural historians agree that the event... -
Translating Women: Different Voices and New Horizons by Luise von Flotow 9780367595937
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This book focuses on women and translation in cultures 'across other horizons' well beyond the European or Anglo-American centres. Drawing on transnational feminist connections, its editors have... -
Neue Horizonte by David Dollenmayer 9781111344191
Booksplease Price: £60.27Packed with contemporary dialogue, engaging readings, active vocabulary, and an assortment of hands-on activities, NEUE HORIZONTE, 8th Edition skillfully instills both communicative and grammatical... -
Journey through a Tragicomic Century: The Absurd Life of Hasso Grabner by Francis Nenik
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62"...particularly peculiar, breath-taking and worth telling." Alexander Solloch, NDR Kultur. Francis Nenik's thrilling slice of narrative non-fiction is about the life of the forgotten writer... -
Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity by Michael Lowy 9780822327943
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields-not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. In... -
Paula by Sandra Hoffmann
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62"Sandra Hoffmann is one of Germany's most exciting contemporary writers. [...] An incredibly dense, finely woven text that immediately grabs you and pulls you mercilessly in." Brigitte Woman. Sandra... -
From the Berlin Journal by Max Frisch
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55Max Frisch (1911 91) was a giant of twentieth-century German literature. When Frisch moved into a new apartment in Berlin's Sarrazinstrasse, he began keeping a journal, which he came to call the... -
52 Factory Lane: Books two of the Anatolian Blues trilogy: 2022: 2 by Selim OEzdogan 9783863913281
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62"You'll live out your lives in a foreign country," Gul is warned. But the whole world is foreign when you're far from your loved ones. The train ride to Germany ushers in the days of long-awaited... -
Murderous Mothers: Late Twentieth-Century Medea Figures and Feminism by Claire E. Scott 9781800794139
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £43.34"Murderous Mothers is both an homage to and a critical reflection on the multiple Medea figures that populate late twentieth-century German literature. Claire Scott artfully demonstrates how... -
Knowledge of the Stasi in the East German Literary Sphere: Surveillance, Secrecy, and Revelation Dr Sara Jones 9781640141957
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.60The first book to investigate what writers, publishers, and editors knew about the Stasi and how, rethinking the relationship between knowledge, secrecy, intuition, trust, and agency under an... -
Transformation and Education in the Literature of the GDR Dr Jean E. Conacher 9781571139559
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.67This book explores how writers adhered to, played with, and subverted the formulaic precepts of educational transformation in the German Democratic Republic. Perhaps never before has a state... -
The Blacksmith's Daughter by Selim OEzdogan 9783863912949
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Told with great affection for his characters, Selim OEzdogan's trilogy traces out the life of Gul, a Turkish girl who grows up in rural 1950s Anatolia and then moves to Germany as a migrant worker... -
We Would Have Told Each Other Everything Judith Hermann 9781738536207
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23When Judith Hermann runs into her psychoanalyst in the middle of the night on Berlin's Kastanienallee, it sparks an exploration of the moments and memories that have made a life: an intense... -
Knowledge of the Stasi in the East German Literary Sphere: Surveillance, Secrecy, and Revelation Dr Sara Jones 9781640141933
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £71.37The first book to investigate what writers, publishers, and editors knew about the Stasi and how, rethinking the relationship between knowledge, secrecy, intuition, trust, and agency under an... -
Women Writers in German-Speaking Countries: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook by Elizabeth G. Ametsbichler 9780313282010
Booksplease Price: £67.39Women have contributed to the literature of German-speaking countries since the Middle Ages, and they continue to write important works at the close of the 20th century. While research on texts by... -
Post-Fascist Fantasies: Psychoanalysis, History, and the Literature of East Germany by Julia Hell 9780822319634
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.62Post-Fascist Fantasies examines the cultural function of the novels of communist authors in East Germany from a psychoanalytic angle. Various critics have argued that these socialist realist fictions... -
Mountainish Zsuzsanna Gahse 9781913513641
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.96A narrator and her dog are criss-crossing the Swiss Alps. She travels with friends who share her interest in food, languages and their topographical contexts. They collect colours, even look for... -
Sibylline Sisters: Virgil's Presence in Contemporary Women's Writing by Fiona Cox 9780199582969
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £98.32The history of Virgil and his receptions is long and varied. His twentieth-century career transformed his appearance as an anaemic imitator of Homer into the 'Father of the West', speaking above all... -
From the Berlin Journal Max Frisch 9781803092140
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55The daily journal of a giant of German literature, touching subjects ranging from everyday life to the political and social conditions in East Germany as viewed from West Berlin. Max Frisch... -
Writing the New Berlin - The German Capital in Post-Wall Literature by Katharina Gerstenberger
Booksplease Price: £25.72A study of the "patchwork imaginary" that is postwall Berlin fiction and its significance for the new Germany. The wall was still coming down when critics began to call for the great Berlin novel... -
Anna Seghers: The Mythic Dimension by Helen Fehervary 9780472112159
Booksplease Price: £86.54Once celebrated as the author of the bestselling antifascist novel The Seventh Cross, Anna Seghers was largely forgotten within Anglo-American letters during the Cold War era. The release of archival... -
The Café with No Name by Robert Seethaler 9781837260164
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.82THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERIt is 1966, and Robert Simon has just fulfilled his dream by taking over a cafe on the corner of a bustling Vienna market. He recruits a barmaid, Mila, and soon... -
Homer's Daughters: Women's Responses to Homer in the Twentieth Century and Beyond by Fiona Cox 9780198802587
RRP: £122.50Booksplease Price: £85.34This collection of essays examines the various ways in which the Homeric epics have been responded to, reworked, and rewritten by women writers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries... -
The Café with No Name Robert Seethaler 9781837260140
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'How I loved this book . . . Seethaler is in his very own league' Elizabeth Strout It is 1966, and Robert Simon has just fulfilled his dream by taking over a... -
The Quest for the Gesamtkunstwerk and Richard Wagner by Hilda Meldrum Brown 9780199325436
Booksplease Price: £117.72The Gesamtkunstwerk ('total work of art'), once a key concept in Wagner studies, has become problematic. This book sheds light on this conundrum by first tracing the development of the concept in the...