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

Explores sonic events and auditory experiences in German-speaking contexts from the Middle Ages to the digital age, opening up new understandings.

New essays on the works and themes of Hesse, one of the most perennially relevant and widely-read German authors.

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.

Key topics in important German medieval work surveyed and reassessed.

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

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

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

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

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

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 introducing a broad range of novelists of the Weimar period.

Detailed analysis of Brecht's extensive theoretical writings on the theater, including newly available works.

A re-examination of the George Circle in the cultural and political contexts of Wilhelmine, Weimar, and Nazi Germany.

Informed by recent historical research on nineteenth-century nationalism, this book demonstrates how the construction of a German national identity, especially in girls' education, came to be experienced by reading girls.

First English translation of the final work of Theodor Fontane, one of Germany's most significant novelists.

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

New essays by top international Schiller scholars on the reception of the great German writer and dramatist, emphasizing his realist aspects.

New essays on poetical and theoretical responses to the Holocaust's rupture of German and European civilization.

An advanced introduction to Benjamin's work and its actualization for our own times.

The first book that presents key original texts from the modern German philosophical tradition to English-language students and scholars of German, with introductions, commentaries, and annotations that make them accessible.

Reveals and analyzes the current strong emphasis in German literature on the role of houses and homes in our constructions of selfhood and belonging.

Examines the lure of mountains in German literature, philosophy, film, music, and culture from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century.

The first book in English on the German Gothic in over thirty years, consisting of new essays investigating the internationality of the Gothic mode.

The Differentiation of Modernism analyzes the phenomenon of intermediality in German radio plays, film music, and electronic music of the late modernist period (1945-1980).

German history films that focus on utopianism and political dissent and their effect on German identity since 1989.

Captures the learning process of Nazi-era literary exiles following in the footsteps of legendary literary exemplars of exile.

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.

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.

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.