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  • Dreams, Hallucinations, Dragons, the Unconscious, and Ekphrasis in German Romanticism

    Ludwig Tieck's Skillful Study of the Mind

    by Joseph D. Rockelmann ...
    Series Book 137 - Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature
    When reading Ludwig Tieck’s texts, the reader becomes aware that dreams, the unconscious, and art play a key role. This study posits that Ekphrasis and dream interpretation are similar due to both analyzing a visual image and attempting to translate the visual into the verbal in order to gain a better and more complete understanding of it. This book discusses Tieck’s texts—Franz Sternbalds ... Read more

    $126.39 CAD

  • Memory in German Romanticism

    Imagination, Image, Reception

    Edited by Christopher R. Clason, Joseph D. Rockelmann, Christina M. Weiler ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
    Memory in German Romanticism treats memory as a core element in the production and reception of German art and literature of the Romantic era. The contributors explore the artistic expression of memory under the categories of imagination, image, and reception. Romantic literary aesthetics raises the subjective imagination to a level of primary importance for the creation of art. It goes beyond ... Read more

    $82.44 CAD

  • The Tender Gaze

    Compassionate Encounters on the German Screen, Page, and Stage

    by Anna-Rebecca Nowicki, Joseph Rockelmann & Christina Joseph Rockelmann, Dr Christina Weiler, John Blair, Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien, Nancy Nenno, Dr Gary Schmidt, Erika Nelson Mukherjee, Nikhil Sathe, Professor Lorna Martens ...
    The gaze, understood as a way of looking at others that involves contemplation and the operation of power, has an extensive history of iterations such as the male gaze (Mulvey), the oppositional gaze (hooks), and the postcolonial gaze (Said). This essay collection develops a supplemental theory of what Muriel Cormican has coined the "tender gaze" and traces its occurrence in German film, theater, ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

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  • Rilke's Book of Hours

    Love Poems to God

    by Anita Barrows ...
    **A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/WEST TRANSLATION AWARDThe 100th Anniversary Edition of a global classic, containing beautiful translations along with the original German text.**While visiting Russia in his twenties, Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, was moved by a spirituality he encountered there. Inspired, Rilke returned to Germany and put down on paper what he felt ... Read more

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  • Lenz

    by Georg Buchner ...
    Translated by Richard Sieburth ...
    This classic of German literature—often hailed as the inception of European modernist prose—follows the mental breakdown of an 18th-century schizophrenic playwright, Jakob Michael Reinhold LenzPublished after Büchner’s death, Lenz provides a taut case study of three weeks in the life of schizophrenic, perhaps the first third-person text ever to be written from the “inside” of insanity. An early ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • The Topography of Modernity

    Karl Philipp Moritz and the Space of Autonomy

    by Elliott Schreiber ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    Karl Philipp Moritz (d. 1793) was one of the most innovative writers of the late Enlightenment in Germany. A novelist, travel writer, editor, and teacher he is probably best known today for his autobiographical novel Anton Reiser (1785–90) and for his treatises on aesthetics, foremost among them Über die bildende Nachahmung des Schönen (On the Formative Imitation of the Beautiful) (1788). In this ... Read more

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  • 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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  • Die Verwandlung

    by Franz Kafka ...
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    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
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  • Logischer Empirismus, Lebensreform und die deutsche Jugendbewegung

    Logical Empiricism, Life Reform, and the German Youth Movement

    Edited by Christian Damböck, Günther Sandner, Meike G. Werner ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open-access book is the first to investigate the roots of Logical Empiricism in the context of the Life Reform and the German Youth Movements. Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach are the key protagonists; they both belonged to the German Youth Movement and developed their early philosophical views in this setting. By combining scholarly essays with unpublished and hard to access manuscripts, ... Read more

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