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![Revisiting the "Nazi Occult" - Histories, Realities, Legacies by Monica Black](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/134768/134486/9781571139061__30338.1686742882.jpg?c=1 "Revisiting the "Nazi Occult" - Histories, Realities, Legacies by Monica Black")
Revisiting the "Nazi Occult" - Histories, Realities, Legacies by Monica Black
Booksplease Price: $141.04Scholars 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: $148.35Booksplease Price: $144.84In 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: $123.982018 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: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.77Stated 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: $96.75Booksplease Price: $94.07The 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: $122.55Booksplease Price: $118.25The 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: $122.55Booksplease Price: $118.25Warlike 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: $35.60The 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: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.77Since 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: $122.55Booksplease Price: $118.25When 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: $42.85The 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: $42.56Booksplease Price: $39.23Thomas 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: $141.04Thomas 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: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.77Nexus 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: $141.04Gustav 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... -
High Modernism - Aestheticism and Performativity in Literature of the 1920s by Joshua Kavaloski
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.77"High modernism" is accepted shorthand for the core phase of literary modernism in the 1920s, when Eliot, Joyce, Pound, Woolf, Mann, Kafka, Proust, Gide, and others published pivotal works... -
Goethe Yearbook 6 by Thomas P. Saine
RRP: $96.75Booksplease Price: $94.07The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, which was founded in 1980 to promote the study of Goethe and his contemporaries. Originally conceived as a vehicle for... -
Imaginaries of Domesticity and Women’s Work in Germany around 1800 by Professor Karin A. Wurst 9781640141285
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $97.01Examines a variety of texts from late Enlightenment Germany to provide a nuanced rethinking of women's roles as wives, mothers, and housekeepers, creators of the cultural spaces of the home... -
The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 42 - Recycling Brecht by Tom Kuhn 9780985195656
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $81.58Published 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 particular interest to... -
The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 48 by Professor Markus Wessendorf 9781640141650
Booksplease Price: $36.38Brecht Yearbook 48 features a section on Brecht's and Heiner Müller's engagement with modern living, a group of essays on "Brecht Post-2020," and additional new Brecht research on various topics. ... -
Renaissance Papers 2000 by T. H. Howard-Hill 9781571132291
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.77Renaissance Papers is a collection of the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. Organized and sponsored in the early 1950s by Duke University and the... -
Italy in the German Literary Imagination - Goethe`s `Italian Journey` and Its Reception by Eichendorff, Platen, and Heine by Gretchen Hachmeister 9781571132260
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.77Italy has long exerted a particular fascination on the Germans, and this has been reflected in German literature, most prominently in Goethe's Italienische Reise but also by numerous other writers... -
Narrative Deconstructions of Gender in Works by Audrey Thomas, Daphne Marlatt, and Louise Erdrich by Caroline Rosenthal 9781571132673
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.77By analyzing the works of Thomas, Marlatt, and Erdrich through the lenses of subjectivity, gender studies, and narratology, Caroline Rosenthal brings to light new perspectives on their writings... -
Goethe Yearbook 15 by Simon Richter 9781571133144
RRP: $96.75Booksplease Price: $93.68The 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... -
A Companion to Australian Aboriginal Literature by Belinda Wheeler 9781571135216
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.77Australian Aboriginal literature, once relegated to the margins of Australian literary studies, now receives both national and international attention. Not only has the number of published texts by... -
The Musical Novel - Imitation of Musical Structure, Performance, and Reception in Contemporary Fiction by Emily Petermann 9781571135926
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.77What is a "musical novel"? This book defines the genre as musical not primarily in terms of its content, but in its form. The musical novel crosses medial boundaries, aspiring to... -
Pluralist Desires - Contemporary Historical Fiction and the End of the Cold War by Philipp Loffler 9781571139528
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $106.15In Pluralist Desires, Philipp Loeffler explores the contemporary historical novel in conjunction with three cultural shifts that have crucially affected political and intellectual life in the United... -
European Perspectives on John Updike by Laurence W. Mazzeno 9781571139726
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.77From the publication in 1958 of his first book, The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures, the American writer John Updike attracted an international readership. His books have been translated... -
Willa Cather - The Critical Conversation by Kelsey Squire 9781571139979
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.77The ever-growing body of criticism on Willa Cather and her fiction is indicative of her enduring position as a pre-eminent figure of twentieth-century American literature. It has been spurred by the... -
Anxiety of Autonomy and the Aesthetics of German Orientalism by Nicholas A. Germana 9781640140028
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $118.25German orientalism has been understood, variously, as a form of latent colonialism, as a quest for academic hegemony in Europe, and as an effort to diagnose and treat the ills of modern Western... -
Mariken van Nieumegen by Therese Decker 9781879751200
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.77A drama in medieval Dutch that provides the first known example of the play-within-a-play device. The text is based on the chapbook of around 1518. In a remarkable parallel to the Faust chapbook, a... -
The Poet as Thinker - Hoelderlin in France by Geert Lernout 9781879751989
Booksplease Price: $123.98The Poet as Thinker is the first historical survey of the reception of the work of the German poet Hoelderlin (1770-1840) in French criticism and literature. After a brief description of the fate of... -
Violence Elsewhere 1: Imagining Distant Violence in Germany 1945-2001 by Dr Clare Bielby 9781640142169
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $29.15Explores the significance of postwar German representations of violence in other places and times. Germany's twentieth-century history has made imagining and representing violence in German culture... -
The Canadian Short Story - Interpretations by Reingard M. Nischik 9781571134790
RRP: $45.14Booksplease Price: $39.62Beginning in the 1890s, reaching its first full realization by modernist writers in the 1920s, and brought to its heyday during the Canadian Renaissance starting in the 1960s, the short story has... -
The End-Times in Medieval German Literature - Sin, Evil, and the Apocalypse by Ernst Ralf Hintz 9781571139894
Booksplease Price: $141.04The contemporary fascination with the end of the world and of life as we know it would not have surprised our counterparts a millennium ago; only the fact that such an end has not yet occurred... -
The Entanglements of Nathaniel Hawthorne - Haunted Minds and Ambiguous Approaches by Samuel Chase Coale 9781571133632
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $42.57Nathaniel Hawthorne, celebrated in his own day for sketches that now seem sentimental, came only gradually to be fully appreciated for what his friend Herman Melville diagnosed as the "power of... -
A Companion to the Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing by Barbara Fischer 9781571134523
RRP: $45.14Booksplease Price: $39.62One of the most independent thinkers in German intellectual history, the Enlightenment author Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) contributed in decisive and lasting fashion to literature,... -
German Memory Contests - The Quest for Identity in Literature, Film, and Discourse since 1990 by Anne Fuchs 9781571134424
Booksplease Price: $41.53Since unification in 1990, Germany has seen a boom in the confrontation with memory, evident in a sharp increase in novels, films, autobiographies, and other forms of public discourse that engage... -
Feminist Painting and Experimental Art in East Germany: The Case of Angela Hampel by Dr April A. Eisman 9781640142336
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $102.54Challenges the conventional view that East German artists were either loyal to the regime or hostile to it through the example of one of its most dynamic figures, the feminist painter and... -
The Strange Sad War Revolving - Walt Whitman, Reconstruction, and the Emergence of Black Citizenship, 1865-1876 by Luke Mancuso
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $106.55Walt 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...