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  • German Expressionist Prose

    Theory and Practice

    by Augustinus Dierick ...
    Series series Heritage
    An extreme sensitivity to gathering social crisis, an accompanying angry enthusiasm for artistic experimentation and renewal – this compelling mix in German art, poetry, and drama of the period 1910 to 1925 continues to draw both scholarly attention and intense popular interest. In this book Augustinus Dierick focuses on another significant but hitherto neglected medium of German Expressionist ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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    His Craft and Thought

    Edited by Roman Struc, John Yardley ...
    The eight papers in this volume were originally presented at the centennial conference on Franz Kafka held at the University of Calgary in October 1983. As diverse in approach and methodology as these papers are “the general drift of the volume is away from Germanistik towards ‘state-of-the-art’ methods.”The opening articles by Charles Bernheimer and James Rolleston both deal with the similarities ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism

    Edited by Nicholas Saul ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw an extraordinary flowering of arts and culture in Germany which produced many of the world's finest writers, artists, philosophers and composers. This volume, first published in 2004, offers students and specialists an authoritative introduction to that dazzling cultural phenomenon, now known collectively as German Romanticism. Individual ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Metaphysics of the Profane

    The Political Theology of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem

    by Eric Jacobson ...
    Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem are regarded as two of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. Together they produced a dynamic body of ideas that has had a lasting impact on the study of religion, philosophy, and literary criticism.Drawing from Benjamin's and Scholem's ideas on messianism, language, and divine justice, this book traces the intellectual exchange through ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Nietzsche's Mirror

    The World as Will to Power

    by Linda L. Williams ...
    Nietzsche's Mirror introduces the reader to one of the most central and pervasive themes in Friedrich Nietzsche's works-will to power. The book traces Nietzsche's use of the terms 'power,' 'will,' and 'will to power' as they are presented in both the works he authorized for publication and his literary remains, called the Nachlass. The author demonstrates that will to power as it is presented in ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • In the Shadow of the Holocaust

    Jewish-Communist Writers in East Germany

    by Thomas C. Fox ...
    This study investigates the negotiation of Jewish-German-Communist identity in post-Holocaust Germany, specifically East Germany. After an introduction to the political-historical context, it highlights the conflicted writings of six East German Jewish writers: Anna Seghers (1900-1983), Stefan Heym (1913-2001), Stephan Hermlin (1915-1997), Jurek Becker (1937-1997), Peter Edel (1921-1983), and Fred ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • A Companion to Twentieth-Century German Literature

    Edited by Raymond Furness, Malcolm Humble ...
    Containing entries on over four hundred authors of fiction, poetry and drama from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, this invaluable work of reference presents material of a range and depth that no other book on the subject in English attains. For the second edition, the entries have been updated to include the most recent works of German literature. A number of new entries have been added, dealing ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Perspectives on Max Frisch

    Edited by Gerhard F. Probst, Jay F. Bodine ...
    Max Frisch, with his countryman Friederich Diirrenmatt, shares the place of eminence in contemporary Swiss literature. Indeed, he ranks high among the recent leading writers in the German language. But, although several of his works— novels and plays—have been translated into English, he remains little known in America. In this collection of essays an international group of scholars provides a ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • The Representation of War in German Literature

    From 1800 to the Present

    by Elisabeth Krimmer ...
    The history of literature about war is marked by a fundamental paradox: although war forms the subject of countless novels, dramas, poems, and films, it is often conceived as indescribable. Even as many writers strive towards an ideal of authenticity, they maintain that no representation can do justice to the terror and violence of war. Readings of Schiller, Kleist, Jünger, Remarque, Grass, Böll, ... Read more

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  • Stefan Zweig and World Literature

    Twenty-First-Century Perspectives

    by Birger Vanwesenbeeck, Mark H. Gelber, Marlen Eckl, Richard V. Benson, Robert Kelz, Robert Weldon Whalen, Darién J Davis, Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, Jeffrey Berlin0, John Warren1, Klaus Weissenberger2, Klemens Renoldner3 ...
    The twenty-first century has seen a renewed surge of cultural and critical interest in the works of the Austrian-Jewish author Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), who was among the most-read and -acclaimed authors worldwide in the 1920s and1930s but after 1945 fell into critical disfavor and relative obscurity. The resurgence in interest in Zweig and his works is attested to by, among other things, new ... Read more

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  • Heiner Müller's Democratic Theater

    The Politics of Making the Audience Work

    by Michael Wood ...
    The East German playwright Heiner Müller (1929-1995) is one of the most influential European dramatists and theater directors since Brecht. While critical literature on Müller often discusses the politics of his works, analysis tends to stop at the level of the text, neglecting the theatrical events that emerge from it and the audiences for which it was written and performed. Situating his study ... Read more

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  • German Literature Through Nazi Eyes (RLE Responding to Fascism)

    by G Atkins ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Responding to Fascism
    The influence of Nazism on German culture was a key concern for many Anglo-American writers, who struggled to reconcile the many contributions of Germany to European civilization, with the barbarity of the new regime.In German Literature Through Nazi Eyes, H.G. Atkins gives an account of how the Nazis undertook a re-evaluation of German literature, making it sub-ordinate to their own interests. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD