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A Companion to the Works of Hartmann von Aue by Francis G. Gentry
Booksplease Price: £31.89In perhaps 25 years of creative productivity (ca. 1180-ca. 1205), Hartmann von Aue authored a dispute about love between the body and the heart, Die Klage, numerous songs of courtly love, crusading... -
German and European Poetics after the Holocaust - Crisis and Creativity by Gert Hofmann
Booksplease Price: £109.33Crisis presents chances for change and creativity: Adorno's famous dictum that writing poetry after Auschwitz would be barbaric has haunted discourse on poetics, but has also given rise to poetic and... -
Creating the Russian Peril - Education, the Public Sphere, and National Identity in Imperial Germany, 1890-1914 by Troy R. E. Paddock
Booksplease Price: £109.33The causes of the First World War have been studied and debated for many decades, yet cultural historians of Germany have largely neglected the German-Russian aspect of the conflict for a focus on... -
Born under Auschwitz - Melancholy Traditions in Postwar German Literature by Mary Cosgrove
Booksplease Price: £96.11In 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,... -
Following Faulkner - The Critical Response to Yoknapatawpha`s Architect by Taylor Hagood
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75William Faulkner seems to have sprung a full-blown genius from a remote part of the American South. Yet Faulkner spent much of his life striving to emulate and overshadow - both as a writer and as a... -
Humor in Contemporary Native North American Lite - Reimagining Nativeness by Eva Gruber
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08In contrast to the popular cliche of the "stoic Indian," humor has always been important in Native North American cultures. Recent Native literature testifies to the centrality of this tradition. Yet... -
The First World War as a Clash of Cultures by Fred Bridgham
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38This volume of essays examines the perceived rift between the British and German intellectual and cultural traditions before 1914 and how the resultant war of words both reflects and helped determine... -
Goethe in German-Jewish Culture by Klaus L. Berghahn
Booksplease Price: £96.11The success of Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners(1997) and the heated debates that followed its publication exposed once again Germany's long tradition of anti-Semitism as a major... -
The Nazi Past in Contemporary German Film - Viewing Experiences of Intimacy and Immersion by Axel Bangert
Booksplease Price: £96.11How has the German image of the Nazi past changed since the reunification of East and West Germany? And what role have cinema and television played in this process? This intriguing study argues that... -
Classical Music in the German Democratic Republi - Production and Reception by Kyle Frackman
Booksplease Price: £109.03Classical music in the German Democratic Republic is commonly viewed as having functioned as an ideological support or cultural legitimization for the state, in the form of the so-called "bourgeois... -
Gender and Sexuality in East German Film - Intimacy and Alienation by Kyle Frackman
Booksplease Price: £109.33The cinema of the German Democratic Republic, that is, the cinema of its state-run studio DEFA, portrayed gender and sexuality in complex and contradictory ways. In doing so, it reflected the... -
German Literature of the High Middle Ages CHHGL 3 by Will Hasty
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38The High Middle Ages, and particularly the period from 1180 to 1230, saw the beginnings of a vibrant literary culture in the German vernacular. While significant literary achievements in German had... -
The GDR Remembered - Representations of the East German State since 1989 by Nick Hodgin
Booksplease Price: £109.33Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the consequences of the country's divided past continue to be debated. The legacy of the German Democratic Republic occupies a major role in German... -
The Farm Novel in North America - Genre and Nation in the United States, English Canada, and French Canada, 1845-1945 by Florian Freitag
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.92From John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese to Louis Hemon's Maria Chapdelaine, some of the most famous works of American, English Canadian, and French Canadian... -
Fifteenth-Century Studies Vol. 22 by William C. McDonald
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Fifteenth-Century Studies has appeared annually since its foundation in 1977 as the publication arm for the Fifteenth-Century Symposium, and aims to include essays on all aspects of life during the... -
Virtual Walls? - Political Unification and Cultural Difference in Contemporary Germany by Franziska Lys
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.20On October 3, 1990, just a year after the Berlin Wall fell, the German Democratic Republic was absorbed into the Federal Republic of Germany, officially ceasing to exist. What was the GDR and how do... -
Hermann Broch and Mass Hysteria: Theory and Representation in the Age of Extremes by Brett E. Sterling 9781640140042
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08Austrian Jewish author Hermann Broch (1886-1951), a leading figure of European Modernism, spent decades attempting to understand the phenomenon of mass hysteria. With his work, he hoped to help... -
Renaissance Papers 2021 by Jim Pearce 9781640141438
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The present volume opens with an essay on early modern chess, arguing that it... -
Edinburgh German Yearbook 13 - Music in German Politics / Politics in German Music by Siobhan Donovan 9781640140608
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75A particularly iconic image of German Reunification is that of Mstislav Rostropovich playing J.S. Bach's cello suites in front of the Berlin Wall on November 11, 1989. Thirty years on, it is timely... -
Germany's Other Modernism: The Jena Paradigm, 1900-1914 by Dr. Meike G. Werner 9781640141391
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08Demonstrates, contrary to conventional wisdom, that European modernism developed not only in the great metropolitan centers, but also in provincial cities such as Jena. The conventional wisdom is... -
The Freest Country in the World: East Germany's Final Year in Culture and Memory by Professor Stephen Brockmann 9781640141544
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08Shows that while the GDR is generally seen as - and mostly was - an oppressive and unfree country, from late 1989 until autumn 1990 it was the "freest country in the world": the dictatorship had... -
The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 43 by Markus Wessendorf 9780985195663
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.54Published for the International Brecht Society by Camden House, the Brecht Yearbook is the central scholarly forum for discussion of Brecht's life and work and of topics of interest to him,... -
Goethe Yearbook 12 by Simon J. Richter 9781571132956
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £72.72The 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... -
German Life Writing in the Twentieth Century by Birgit Dahlke 9781571133137
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75"Life writing," a genre classification increasingly accepted among scholars of literature and other disciplines, encompasses not just autobiography and biography, but also memoirs, diaries, letters,... -
The Critics and Hemingway, 1924-2014 - Shaping an American Literary Icon by Laurence W. Mazzeno 9781571135919
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38Hemingway burst on the literary scene in the 1920s with spare, penetrating short stories and brilliant novels. Soon he was held as a standard for modern writers. Meanwhile, he used his celebrity to... -
Hanns Eisler`s Art Songs - Arguing with Beauty by Heidi Hart 9781640140004
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £82.05Best known for his collaborations with Bertolt Brecht, composer Hanns Eisler also set nineteenth-century German poetry to music that both absorbs and disturbs the Lieder tradition. This book traces... -
Inscription and Rebellion - Illness and the Symptomatic Body in East German Literature by Sonja E. Klocke 9781640140554
Booksplease Price: £27.60The healthcare system of the German Democratic Republic, based on Soviet models, reflected the importance the socialist state assigned the health both of its citizens and of the metaphorical national... -
A Divided Poet - Robert Frost, North of Boston, and the Drama of Disappearance by David Sanders 9781571134998
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £33.00North of Boston, Robert Frost's second book of verse and arguably his greatest, brought him suddenly into national prominence in 1915. Though completed and first published in England in 1914, the... -
The Multiple Worlds of Pynchon`s Mason & Dixon - Eighteenth-Century Contexts, Postmodern Observations by Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds 9781571134110
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.71Thomas Pynchon's 1997 novel Mason & Dixon marked a deep shift in Pynchon's career and in American letters in general. All of Pynchon's novels had been socially and politically aware, marked by social... -
Arno Schmidt`s Zettel`s Traum - An Analysis by Volker Max Langbehn 9781571139887
Booksplease Price: £29.68Arno Schmidt (1914-1979) is considered one of the most daring and influential writers of postwar Germany; the Germanist Jeremy Adler has called him a "giant of postwar German literature." Schmidt was... -
Willful Girls: Gender and Agency in Contemporary Anglo-American and German Fiction by Emily Jeremiah 9781640140080
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Explores the process of "becoming woman" through an analysis of the depiction of girls and young women in contemporary Anglo-American and German literary texts. What does it mean to "become woman" in... -
The Strange Sad War Revolving - Walt Whitman, Reconstruction, and the Emergence of Black Citizenship, 1865-1876 by Luke Mancuso
Booksplease Price: £96.11Walt 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: £31.89Undoubtedly 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: £113.29After 1945, the purist "medium specificity" of high modernism increasingly yielded to the mixed forms of intermediality. Theodor Adorno dubbed this development a "Verfransung," or "fraying of... -
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... -
Women in the Works of Lou Andreas-Salome - Negotiating Identity by Muriel Cormican
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75The 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: £31.89When 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: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Professor 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: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Exile 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 great number... -
Last Features - East German Cinema`s Lost Generation by Reinhild Steingrover
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08Last 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...