Böcker i Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture-serien

Analyzes Wolf's, Drewitz's, and Weil's views of individual responsibility in history, with reference to theories of memory and feminist ethics.

New essays demonstrating and exploring the abiding fascination of Wagner's controversial work.

New, wide-ranging essays on the controversial poet, who was both a harbinger of Modernism and a critic of modernity.

A fresh and extensive look at the works of the great Austrian novelist in the context of the German and Austrian culture of his time.

New essays on the most prominent German dramatist and short-story writer of the early 19th century.

Essays shedding light on the increasingly open cultural debate on the German past.

A history of Kantian and post-Kantian thought and of a foundational stage of German orientalism.

Key topics in important German medieval work surveyed and reassessed.

Essays in this volume rethink conventional ways of conceptualizing female authorship and re-examine the formal, aesthetic, and thematic terms in which German women's literature has been conceived.

A study of how Nanga Parbat, the ninth-highest peak on earth, became the German "mountain of the mind."

Presents the first English translation of Herder's foundational essay along with critical responses to it by today's leading Herder scholars.

One of the first books to extend the currently burgeoning scholarship on East Germany to the visual arts, revealing that painting, like literature and film, was a space of contestation.

Argues on the evidence of nine major German novels that literature and business have in common a reliance on language, understood in a creative, performative, and rhetorical sense.

Uncovers the central role of Brecht reception in Turkish theater and Turkish-German literature, examining interactions between Turkish and German writers, texts, and contexts.

A major contribution to Grass scholarship that looks at his career as a whole and identifies four phases or stages of his writing in terms of communicative strategy and style.

New essays by leading scholars examining today's vibrant and innovative German crime fiction, along with its historical background.

This first book-length study of fictional suicides in East German literature provides insight into the complex and dynamic rhetoric of the GDR and the literariness of its literature.

A European novel of racial mixing and "passing" in early twentieth-century America that serves as a unique account of transnational and transcultural racial attitudes that continue to reverberate today.

An extensive look at historical, literary, and media representations of '68 in Germany, challenging the way it has been instrumentalized.

A collection of essays -- early seminal works as well as freshinterpretations -- on the famous German expressionist film,Metropolis.

Examines the literature produced from the very beginnings of what became the GDR through the 1950s, redressing a tendency of literary scholarship to focus on the later GDR.

Employs research on the GDR's healthcare system along with feminist and queer theory to get at socialism's legacy, revealing a specifically East German literary convention: employment of "symptomatic female bodies" to either enforce or rebel against political and social norms.

Investigates the concept of transnationalism and its significance in and for German-language literature and culture.

An innovative, critical, historically informed, yet accessible reassessment of writers who remained in Nazi Germany and Austria yet expressed nonconformity - even dissent - through their fiction.

Provocative and spiced with humor, this book uses a cultural studies approach to examine the fraught relationship in German history between material reality and ideology.

A new critical assessment of the works of the Austrian-Jewish author, in whom there has been a recent resurgence of interest, from the perspective of world literature.

Explores the performative role of canonical literary works from the 1920s, providing a more nuanced understanding of high modernism and resituating it within literary history.

The first broad treatment of German genre fiction, containing innovative new essays on a variety of genres and foregrounding concerns of gender, environmentalism, and memory.

A comprehensive account of Goethe's relationship to Arabian culture, mediated by his interest in certain poets and texts and by his highly nuanced attitude toward Islam.