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The Strange Sad War Revolving - Walt Whitman, Reconstruction, and the Emergence of Black Citizenship, 1865-1876 by Luke Mancuso
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €98.29Walt Whitman's prolific Reconstruction project has remained the most uncultivated decade in Whitman studies for over a century. This first book-length analysis seeks to point the way for a needed... -
The Dickens Industry - Critical Perspectives 1836-2005 by Laurence W. Mazzeno
Booksplease Price: €37.95Undoubtedly the best-selling author of his day and well loved by readers in succeeding generations, Charles Dickens was not always a favorite among critics. Celebrated for his novels advocating... -
The Differentiation of Modernism - Postwar German Media Arts by Larson Powell
Booksplease Price: €134.82After 1945, the purist "medium specificity" of high modernism increasingly yielded to the mixed forms of intermediality. Theodor Adorno dubbed this development a "Verfransung," or... -
A Companion to the Literature of German Expressionism by Neil H. Donahue
Booksplease Price: €39.83More 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... -
Women in the Works of Lou Andreas-Salome - Negotiating Identity by Muriel Cormican
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €97.57The writer and intellectual Lou Andreas-Salome (1861-1937) fascinates scholars of German literature because of her associations with Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud and because she was active in the... -
Becoming John Updike - Critical Reception, 1958-2010 by Laurence W. Mazzeno
Booksplease Price: €37.95When John Updike died in 2009, tributes from the literary establishment were immediate and fulsome. However, no one reading reviews of Updike's work in the late 1960s would have predicted that kind... -
Michigan German in Frankenmuth - Variation and Change in an East Franconian Dialect by Renate Born
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €97.57Professor Born's book provides a phonological, grammatical, and lexical description of a German-American dialect that has never before been studied. It compares the Michigan Frankenmuth dialect with... -
Literary Exiles from Nazi Germany - Exemplarity and the Search for Meaning by Johannes F. Evelein
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €97.57Exile is as old as humanity itself but a radically new fate for the "novice" exile, who falls into a world about which personal experience can tell him nothing. He does, however, know a... -
Last Features - East German Cinema`s Lost Generation by Reinhild Steingrover
RRP: €113.05Booksplease Price: €108.73Last Features is the story of forgotten films made during the time of German unification. With leftover GDR funds and under chaotic conditions, a group of young East German filmmakers produced around... -
Catastrophe and Catharsis - Perspectives on Disaster and Redemption in German Culture and Beyond by Katharina Gerstenberger
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €97.57Destroying human habitat and taking human lives, disasters, be they natural, man-made, or a combination, threaten large populations, even entire nations and societies. They also disrupt the existing... -
Heinrich von Kleist: Literary and Philosophical Paradigms by Jeffrey L. High
RRP: €136.85Booksplease Price: €133.26Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) was a rebel who upset canonization by employing his predecessors and contemporaries as what Steven Howe calls "inspirational foils." It was precisely a keen... -
Elsa Asenijeff's Is That Love? and Innocence: A Voice Reclaimed by Elsa Asenijeff
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €89.49This edition provides the first English translations of two short-story collections - Is That Love? (1896) and Innocence: A Modern Book for Girls (1901) - by the Austrian writer Elsa Asenijeff... -
The Short Story in German in the Twenty-First Century by Lyn Marven
RRP: €136.85Booksplease Price: €133.26Offers readings of key contemporary trends and themes in the vibrant genre of short-story writing in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, with attention to major practitioners and translations of two... -
The Memoirs of Ceija Stojka, Child Survivor of the Romani Holocaust by Ceija Stojka 9781640141216
RRP: €113.05Booksplease Price: €109.09"Is this the whole world?" This question begins the first of three memoirs by Austrian Romani writer, visual artist, musician, and activist Ceija Stojka (1933-2013), told from her... -
Goethe Yearbook 10 by Thomas P. Saine 9781571132307
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €64.46The Goethe Yearbook, first published in 1982, is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America and is dedicated to North American Goethe scholarship. It aims above all to encourage and publish... -
The Image and Influence of America in German Poetry since 1945 by Gregory Divers 9781571132420
RRP: €113.05Booksplease Price: €109.09This book focuses on the image of the US in German poetry and the reception of American poetry in Germany since 1945. Gregory Divers examines poems by major figures in 20th-century German literature... -
Renaissance Papers 2007 by Christopher Cobb 9781571133786
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €97.57Renaissance Papers collects the best essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. In the 2007 volume, two essays focus on Shakespeare's Roman plays: one on Lavinia's death... -
The Ethics of William Carlos Williams`s Poetry by Ian D. Copestake 9781571134813
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €97.57William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) is the most influential figure in the development of American poetry in the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. His simple language and focus on the... -
Reading Abolition - The Critical Reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass by Brian Yothers 9781571135773
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €97.57Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass represent a crucial strand in nineteenth-century American literature: the struggle for the abolition of slavery. Yet there has been no thoroughgoing... -
Nexus 3 - Essays in German Jewish Studies by William Collins Donahue 9781571139634
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €97.57Nexus is the official publication of the biennial German Jewish Studies Workshop, which was inaugurated at Duke University in 2009 and is now held at the University of Notre Dame. Together, Nexus and... -
Transatlantic German Studies - Testimonies to the Profession by Paul Michael Lutzeler 9781640140127
RRP: €113.05Booksplease Price: €109.09The decisive contribution of the exile generation of the 1930s and '40s to German Studies in the United States is well known. The present volume carries the story forward to the next generation(s),... -
Imagining Home - American War Fiction from Hemingway to 9/11 by Susan Farrell 9781640140011
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €97.57War has often been seen as the domain of men and thus irrelevant to gender analysis, and American writers have frequently examined war according to traditional gender expectations: that boys become... -
Women and National Socialism in Postwar German Literature - Gender, Memory, and Subjectivity by Katherine Stone 9781571139948
Booksplease Price: €114.37In recent years, historians have revealed the many ways in which German women supported National Socialism-as teachers, frontline auxiliaries, and nurses, as well as in political organizations. In... -
Hemingway and Africa by Miriam B. Mandel 9781571139672
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €44.59Hemingway's two extended African safaris, the first in the 1930s and the second in the 1950s, gave rise to two of his best-known stories ("The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "The Short... -
Thomas Mann`s Joseph and His Brothers - Writing, Performance, and the Politics of Loyalty by William E. McDonald 9781571131546
Booksplease Price: €130.10McDonald's study offers fresh insights into Mann's Joseph tetralogy in two ways. Beginning with Mann's well documented love for public performance, he rereads the Joseph novels as a script, showing... -
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Revisiting the "Nazi Occult" - Histories, Realities, Legacies by Monica Black
Booksplease Price: €130.10Scholars have debated the role of the occult in Nazism since it first appeared on the German political landscape in the 1920s. After 1945, a consensus held that occultism - an ostensibly anti-modern,... -
The Critical Reception of Hemingway`s The Sun Also Rises by Peter L. Hays
RRP: €136.85Booksplease Price: €133.61In the eight decades since its publication, Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, like a Rorschach blot, has measured not only critics' opinions of Hemingway but also the critical temper of the times. An... -
The Long Shadow of the Past - Contemporary Austrian Literature, Film, and Culture by Katya Krylova
Booksplease Price: €114.372018 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title The process of coming to terms with its National Socialist past has been a long and difficult one in Austria. It is only over the past thirty years that the... -
Stated Memory: East Germany and the Holocaust Thomas C. Fox (Royalty Account) 9781571131294
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €97.57Stated Memory: East Germany and the Holocaust investigates communist Germany's attempt to explain the Holocaust within a framework that was at once German and Marxist. The book probes the... -
Goethe Yearbook 17 by Daniel Purdy
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €86.77The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, publishing original English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit,... -
Celluloid Revolt - German Screen Cultures and the Long 1968 by Christina Gerhardt
RRP: €113.05Booksplease Price: €109.09The epoch-making revolutionary period universally known in Germany as '68 can be argued to have predated that year and to have extended well into the 1970s. It continues to affect German and Austrian... -
Women and Death 2 - Warlike Women in the German Literary and Cultural Imagination since 1500 by Sarah Colvin
RRP: €113.05Booksplease Price: €109.09Warlike women are a recurring phenomenon in German literature and culture since 1500. Amazons, terrorists, warrior women -- this volume of essays by leading scholars from the UK and Germany analyzes... -
A Companion to Gottfried von Strassburg`s Tristan by Will Hasty
Booksplease Price: €32.84The legend of Tristan and Isolde -- the archetypal narrative about the turbulent effects of all-consuming, passionate love -- achieved its most complete and profound rendering in the German poet... -
The Critical Reception of Emerson - Unsettling all Things by Sarah Ann Wider
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €97.57Since the 1820s, Ralph Waldo Emerson has provoked an unsettled response from his readers and contentiousness among critics. Critics still contest Emerson's position: Was he poet or philosopher? Did... -
Nolten the Painter - A Novella in Two Parts by Eduard Morike
RRP: €113.05Booksplease Price: €109.09When one thinks of German artist-novels and Bildungsromane, works long available in translation come to mind--by Goethe, Novalis, Hoffmann, Stifter, Keller, or more recently by Mann, Kafka, Musil, or... -
The Burden of the Past - Martin Walser on Modern German Identity: Texts, Contexts, Commentary by Martin Walser
Booksplease Price: €39.53The German novelist Martin Walser's 1998 speech upon accepting the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade remains a milestone in recent German efforts to come to terms with the Nazi past. The day after... -
A Companion to the Works of Thomas Mann by Herbert Lehnert
RRP: €39.26Booksplease Price: €36.19Thomas Mann is among the greatest of German prose writers, and was the first German novelist to reach a wide English-speaking readership since Goethe. Novels such as Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain,... -
Thomas Mann`s Death in Venice - A Novella and Its Critics by Ellis Shookman
Booksplease Price: €130.10Thomas Mann's 1912 novella Death in Venice is one of the most famous and widely read texts in all of modern literature, raising such issues as beauty and decadence, eros and irony, and aesthetics and... -
Nexus 2 - Essays in German Jewish Studies by William Collins Donahue
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €97.57Nexus is the official publication of the biennial German Jewish Studies Workshop at Duke University, the first ongoing forum in North America for German Jewish studies. It publishes innovative... -
Reading Mahler - German Culture and Jewish Identity in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna by Carl Niekerk
Booksplease Price: €130.10Gustav Mahler's music is more popular than ever, yet few are aware of its roots in German literary and cultural history in general, and in fin-de-siecle Viennese culture in particular. Taking as its...