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Kokoschka by Rudiger Goerner
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $30.30The Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) achieved world fame with his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes. In this detailed biography, Rudiger Goerner masterfully depicts the... -
Hoelderlin and the Consequences: An Essay on the German 'Poet of Poets' by Rudiger Goerner
RRP: $64.33Booksplease Price: $47.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783476058171Author Rudiger GoernerFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint J.B. Hetzler'sche... -
Hoelderlin and the Consequences: An Essay on the German 'Poet of Poets' by Rudiger Goerner 9783476058201
RRP: $64.33Booksplease Price: $47.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783476058201Author Rudiger GoernerFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint J.B. Hetzler'sche... -
In the Embrace of the Swan: Anglo-German Mythologies in Literature, the Visual Arts and Cultural Theory by Rudiger Gorner 9783110209587
RRP: $352.95Booksplease Price: $241.06Myths determine the way cultures understand themselves. The papers in this volume examine culturally specific myths in Britain and the German-speaking world, and compare approaches to the theory of... -
Kokoschka: The Untimely Modernist Rüdiger Görner 9781914979149
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) was an artist of his time, but he also stood out among his peers - not just because of his toweringphysical height but for his artistic range: he wrote plays and stories... -
In the Future of Yesterday: A Life of Stefan Zweig Rüdiger Görner 9781914979347
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00In the Future of Yesterday offers a refreshing approach to the life and work of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig and delves into his considerable contribution to world literature, rooted in the... -
A Poet's Reich: Politics and Culture in the George Circle Melissa S. Lane (Royalty Account) 9781571134622
RRP: $224.25Booksplease Price: $218.24Stefan George (1868-1933) was one of the most important figures in modern German culture. His poetry, in its originality and impact, has been ranked with that of Goethe and Hoelderlin. Yet George's... -
Andererseits - Yearbook of Transatlantic German Studies Vol. 7/8: 2018-19 by William Collins Donahue
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $63.26andererseits seeks to provide a forum for unique and exciting research and reflections on topics related to the German-speaking world and the field of German Studies. Works presented in the... -
German and European Poetics after the Holocaust - Crisis and Creativity by Gert Hofmann
Booksplease Price: $213.19Crisis 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... -
Hoelderlin's Poltergeists: A Drama for Voices by Siomon Solomon 9781789977066
RRP: $75.95Booksplease Price: $69.32Depicting the literary, erotic, political and clinical trajectory of the Swabian Fruhromantiker Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843), Solomon's shapeshifting study presents an audacious English "remix"... -
A Companion to the Works of Robert Musil by Philip Payne 9781571134530
Booksplease Price: $78.18A fresh and extensive look at the works of the great Austrian novelist in the context of the German and Austrian culture of his time. A panel of authors, critics, and academics convened by the... -
Sea Fortune: Literature and Navigation by Burkhardt Wolf 9783110608953
RRP: $179.40Booksplease Price: $122.71This new series presents original scholarly and essayistic work addressing the central status of literature in and for the human sciences. At stake in the monographs and essay collections are... -
Poetry and the Question of Modernity: From Heidegger to the Present by Ian Cooper
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $84.01Interest in Martin Heidegger was recently reawakened by the revelations, in his newly published 'Black Notebooks', of the full terrible extent of his political commitments in the 1930s and 1940s. The... -
All Under One Roof: Poems by Evelyn Schlag 9781784102241
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.76The Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation for Summer 2018. The Austrian poet and novelist Evelyn Schlag, whose 2004 Selected Poems received the coveted Schlegel Tieck Prize, returns with... -
Anglo-German Entanglements in English Fiction: From the Cold War to Brexit Daniela Keller 9781666934885
Booksplease Price: $176.61Through a diffractive reading of seven English novels, Daniela Keller redefines the deeply intertwined and continuously developing relationship between England and Germany.The relationship between... -
Cruelty: A Cultural History Wolfgang Müller-Funk 9781509563951
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $36.33In a humane world, cruelty should not exist, and yet it has been a feature of our societies since time immemorial. From individual acts of cruelty to systematic torture and mass murder, cruelty has...