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  • Sebald's Vision

    by Carol Jacobs ...
    Series series Literature Now
    W. G. Sebald's writing has been widely recognized for its intense, nuanced engagement with the Holocaust, the Allied bombing of Germany in WWII, and other episodes of violence throughout history. Through his inventive use of narrative form and juxtaposition of image and text, Sebald's work has offered readers new ways to think about remembering and representing trauma.In Sebald's Vision, Carol ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • The Wild Child

    The Unsolved Mystery of Kaspar Hauser

    by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson ...
    Kept in a dungeon for his entire childhood, Kaspar Hauser appeared in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1828 at age sixteen, barely able to walk or talk. When he was killed in 1833, his true identity and the motives for his unsolved murder became the subjects of intense speculation. This provocative essay sheds new light on this mystery and delves into fundamental questions about the long-term effects of ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Franz Kafka (1883-1983)

    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 Rilke Alphabet

    by Ulrich Baer ...
    Translated by Andrew Hamilton ...
    The renowned Rilke scholar brings the poet's work to life for modern readers through 26 essays, each devoted to a single word found in his writings.Ulrich Baer's The Rilke Alphabet explores the enduring power of one of the world's greatest poets, a visionary who saw that even the smallest overlooked word could unlock life's mysteries. With deep insight and love for Rilke's language, Baer examines ... Read more

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  • Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape, Second Edition

    by Joseph Leo Koerner ...
    Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), the greatest painter of the Romantic movement in Germany, was perhaps Europe’s first truly modern artist. His melancholy landscapes, often peopled by lonely wanderers, represent experiments towards a radically subjective art, one in which, as Friedrich wrote, the painter depicts not ‘what he sees before him, but what he sees within him.’ Yet in their awesome ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Wittgenstein's Novels

    by Martin Klebes ...
    Series series Studies in Philosophy
    Analyzing features of Wittgenstein's philosophical work and including in-depth textual analyses, this study investigates the impact of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work on contemporary German and French novelists.Drawing upon aesthetics, architectural history, philosophy of science, and photography, the book seeks to explain why references both to Wittgenstein as a person, as well as to his work are more ... Read more

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  • Saturn's Moons

    A W.G Sebald Handbook

    by Jo Catling, Richard Hibbitt ...
    The German novelist, poet and critic W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) has in recent years attracted a phenomenal international following for his evocative prose works such as Die Ausgewanderten (The Emigrants), Die Ringe des Saturn (The Rings of Saturn) and Austerlitz, spellbinding elegiac narratives which, through their deliberate blurring of genre boundaries and provocative use of photography, explore ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Rilke

    Edited by Karen Leeder, Robert Vilain ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Often regarded as the greatest German poet of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) remains one of the most influential figures of European modernism. In this Companion, leading scholars offer informative and thought-provoking essays on his life and social context, his correspondence, all his major collections of poetry including most famously the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • While I Am Drawing Breath

    by Rose Auslander ...
    Translated by Anthony Vivis, Jean Boase-Beier ...
    This book is also available as a eBook. Buy it from Amazon here.The experience of living in the Chernivtsi ghetto under the Nazis remains a dark undertow in all Rose Ausländer's poetry. The hardships of a life in hiding, the constant fear of Nazi terror and concentration camps are all harrowingly present, while other poems speak to the mother for whose sake she endured.After the war Ausländer's ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

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  • 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

  • The Meaning of Modern Architecture

    Its Inner Necessity and an Empathetic Reading

    by Hans Rudolf Morgenthaler ...
    Using empathy, as established by the Vienna School of Art History, complemented by insights on how the mind processes visual stimuli, as demonstrated by late 19th-century psychologists and art theorists, this book puts forward an innovative interpretative method of decoding the forms and spaces of Modern buildings. This method was first developed as scholars realized that the new abstract art ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD