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A Companion to the Works of Alfred Doeblin by Roland A. Dollinger
Booksplease Price: £31.89Alfred Doeblin (1878-1957) was one of the great German-Jewish writers of the 20th century, a major figure in the German avant-garde before the First World War and a leading intellectual during the... -
The Critical Reception of Alfred Doeblin`s Major Novels by Wulf Koepke
Booksplease Price: £109.03The first thorough study in English of the reception of Doeblin's novels, written by one of the foremost Doeblin scholars. Alfred Doeblin (1878-1957) is one of the major German writers of the... -
Bricks and Mortar by Clemens Meyer 9781910695197
Booksplease Price: £17.49Bricks and Mortar is the story of the sex trade in a big city in the former GDR, from just before 1989 to the present day, charting the development of the industry from absolute prohibition to full... -
Bricks and Mortar Clemens Meyer 9781804272107
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Bricks and Mortar is the story of the sex trade in a big city in the former GDR, from just before 1989 to the present day, charting the development of the industry from absolute prohibition to full... -
Fictions of Legibility: The Human Face and Body in Modern German Novels from Sophie Von La Roche to Alfred Doeblin by Gabriela Stoicea
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £40.18Gabriela Stoicea examines how the incidence and role of physical descriptions in German novels changed between 1771 and 1929 in response to developments in the study of the human face and body. As... -
The Epic Modernist Alfred Döblin: A Reader’s Guide to His Major Fiction in Six Excursions David R Midgley 9781640142275
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £80.21Provides the English-speaking reader with a comprehensive guide to the fiction of Alfred Doeblin, a major figure in German and European literary modernism. Alfred Doeblin was born into a Jewish... -
Dancing with the Modernist City: Metropolitan Dance Texts around 1900 Wesley Lim 9780472039692
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14As the 20th century dawned, authors, artists, and filmmakers flocked to cities like Paris and Berlin for a chance to experience a bustling urban life and engage with other artists and intellectuals... -
Dancing with the Modernist City: Metropolitan Dance Texts around 1900 Wesley Lim 9780472133307
Booksplease Price: £63.25As the 20th century dawned, authors, artists, and filmmakers flocked to cities like Paris and Berlin for a chance to experience a bustling urban life and engage with other artists and intellectuals... -
Manas by Alfred Doblin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912916214Author Alfred DoeblinFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint -
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb new translation by Michael HofmannFranz Biberkopf is back on the streets of Berlin. Determined to go straight after a stint in prison, he finds... -
A History of the Case Study: Sexology, Psychoanalysis, Literature by Birgit Lang 9780719099434
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.61This collection tells the story of the case study genre at a time when it became the genre par excellence for discussing human sexuality across the humanities and life sciences.It is a... -
In the Belly of the Queen: 2023 by Karosh Taha
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Amal shocks the whole neighbourhood by beating up her classmate Younes. Her father defends her behaviour and encourages her to assert herself. From then on everyone avoids Amal - and then her father... -
The Cold Gaze: Germany in the 1920s by Laerke Rydal Jorgensen
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.35A sweeping journey through the roaring art and culture of the Weimar Republic At the center of this volume are the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) artists-Otto Dix, George Grosz and Albert... -
Biological Modernism: The New Human in Weimar Culture by Carl Gelderloos 9780810141322
Booksplease Price: £34.10Biological Modernism identifies an intellectual current in the Weimar Republic that drew on biology, organicism, vitalism, and other discourses associated with living nature in order to redefine the... -
Performing Femininity: Dance and Literature in German Modernism by Alexandra Kolb 9783039113514
RRP: £51.40Booksplease Price: £46.27This is the first book to analyse the cultural representations of female identity that were created by the interaction between choreography and literary writing in German modernism. It explores the... -
A Companion to the Literature of German Expressionism by Neil H. Donahue
Booksplease Price: £33.47More than any other avant-garde movement, German Expressionism captures the aesthetic revolution of 20th-century modernity in all its contrasts and conflicts. In continuous eruptions from 1905 to... -
Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic by William Grange 9780810859678
Booksplease Price: £81.77The Weimar Republic began at 2:00 PM on November 9, 1918 when Philip Scheidemann declared from a second-story window in the Reich Chancellery to his hearers below that the German Reich was now a... -
The First World War in German Narrative Prose by Charles N Genno
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.90This collection of eight essays in honour of the distinguished Canadian Germanist G.W. Field treats themes in German narrative prose of the First World War, the pre-war era, and the earliest of the... -
Ashes for Breakfast: Selected Poems by Durs Grunbein
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Born in Dresden in 1962, Durs Grunbein is the most significant and successful poet to emerge from the former East Germany, a place where, he wrote, 'the best refuge was a closed mouth.' In... -
Disputed Territories and Shared Pasts: Overlapping National Histories in Modern Europe by Tibor Frank 9781137428134
Booksplease Price: £90.86A collection of essays on European historiography, focussing on the overlapping national histories in Europe presenting many of the contested areas through conflicting historiographies. Sponsored by... -
German Expressionist Prose: Theory and Practice by Augustinus P Dierick
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £28.18An extreme sensitivity to gathering social crisis, an accompanying angry enthusiasm for artistic experimentation and renewal - this compelling mix in German art, poetry, and drama of the period 1910... -
Contested and Shared Places of Memory: History and politics in North Eastern Europe by Jorg Hackmann 9780415494564
Booksplease Price: £46.49The Baltic-Russian debates on the past have become a hot spot of European memory politics. Violent protests and international tensions accompanying the removal of the "Bronze Soldier" monument, which... -
Contested and Shared Places of Memory: History and politics in North Eastern Europe by Jorg Hackmann 9780415846776
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.38The Baltic-Russian debates on the past have become a hot spot of European memory politics. Violent protests and international tensions accompanying the removal of the "Bronze Soldier" monument, which... -
The Case of Hans Henny Jahnn - Criticism and the Literary Outsider by Thomas Freeman 9781571132062
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08The first full-length study of the literary criticism on the works of the controversial twentieth-century German writer Hans Henny Jahnn. Hans Henny Jahnn (1894-1959) is one of Germany's most... -
Montage as Perceptual Experience - Berlin Alexanderplatz from Doeblin to Fassbinder by Mario Slugan
Booksplease Price: £96.11The first book to treat both Doeblin's novel and the film adaptations of it, which it does while also articulating theories of literary and film montage. Alfred Doeblin's novel Berlin... -
Berlin Tales by Helen Constantine 9780199559381
RRP: £13.49Booksplease Price: £10.12Berlin Tales is a collection of seventeen translated stories associated with Berlin. The book provides a unique insight into the mind of this fascinating city through the eyes of its story-tellers. ... -
Split: A Novel by Alida Bremer 9781662507045
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.37Nazis, spies, romance, and murder collide in prewar eastern Europe in a mesmerizing historical novel by the award-winning author of Oliva's Garden. It's 1936. The seaside-resort village of Split... -
Topographies of Class: Modern Architecture and Mass Society in Weimar Berlin by Sabine Hake 9780472070381
Booksplease Price: £93.21In Topographies of Class, Sabine Hake explores why Weimar Berlin has had such a powerful hold on the urban imagination. Approaching Weimar architectural culture from the perspective of mass discourse... -
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"Sugar Dollies" and "After the Rain" by Klaus Chatten 9780413707901
Booksplease Price: £14.45A new German and Catalan play together in one volume Sugar Dollies by Klaus Chatten (Germany) Dressed as Batman and Robin, Babette and her overweight daughter, Tabea enter the ratings-topping blind... -
Topographies of Class: Modern Architecture and Mass Society in Weimar Berlin by Sabine Hake 9780472050383
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £32.02In Topographies of Class, Sabine Hake explores why Weimar Berlin has had such a powerful hold on the urban imagination. Approaching Weimar architectural culture from the perspective of mass discourse... -
Berlin. Portrait of a City by Unknown 9783822814451
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £46.24Berlin has survived two world wars, was divided by a wall during the Cold War, and after the fall of the wall was reunited. The city emerged as a center of European power and culture. From 1860 to... -
German Novelists of the Weimar Republic - Intersections of Literature and Politics by Karl Leydecker 9781571134691
Booksplease Price: £27.80New essays introducing a broad range of novelists of the Weimar period. The Weimar Republic was a turbulent and fateful time in German history. Characterized by economic and political instability,... -
Redeeming Words: Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Doeblin and Sebald by David Michael Kleinberg-Levin 9781438447810
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £69.91Probing study of how literature can redeem the revelatory, redemptive powers of language.In this probing look at Alfred Doeblin's 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz and the stories of W. G. Sebald,... -
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth 9780141393421
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.23NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 'Sublime ... it inspires a kind of evangelical cult passion among its devotees' Simon Schama'Roth is Austria's Chekhov' William Boyd Strauss's Radetzky March,... -
Disputed Territories and Shared Pasts: Overlapping National Histories in Modern Europe by Tibor Frank 9780230500082
Booksplease Price: £90.86A collection of essays on European historiography, focussing on the overlapping national histories in Europe presenting many of the contested areas through conflicting historiographies. Sponsored by... -
Worlds Apart Julia Franck 9781917593021
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Born in East Berlin, Julia is eight when her actress mother uproots her family of four girls, by different fathers, in search of a better life. Their eventual landing in the remote countryside of... -
Gestural Imaginaries: Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century by Lucia Ruprecht 9780190659387
Booksplease Price: £50.93Gestural Imaginaries: Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century offers a new interpretation of European modernist dance by addressing it as guiding medium in a vibrant field of... -
Violence Without God: The Rhetorical Despair of Twentieth-Century Writers by Joyce Wexler 9781501325298
Booksplease Price: £102.21As twentieth-century writers confronted the political violence of their time, they were overcome by rhetorical despair. Unspeakable acts left writers speechless. They knew that the atrocities of the... -
Two Plays of Weimar Germany: Youth Is a Sickness and Criminals by Ferdinand Bruckner 9780810137721
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.95If a theater-goer in Weimar Berlin were asked to name the best living German playwright, the answer would not be Bertolt Brecht or Georg Kaiser or Arnolt Bronnen. It would be Ferdinand Bruckner. ... -
Violence Without God: The Rhetorical Despair of Twentieth-Century Writers by Joyce Wexler
Booksplease Price: £27.89As twentieth-century writers confronted the political violence of their time, they were overcome by rhetorical despair. Unspeakable acts left writers speechless. They knew that the atrocities of the...