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

Expands the definition of second-generation literature to include texts written from the point of view of the children of Nazi perpetrators.

Explores how contemporary novels dealing with flight and expulsion after the Second World War unsettle traditional notions of Heimat without abandoning place-based notions of belonging.

An investigation of the considerable influence of Wagner's stay in Zurich from 1849 to 1858 -- a period often discounted by scholars -- on his career.

Cutting-edge criticism on major aspects of Goethe's best-known work.

A study of Mann's novel tetralogy of the 1930s that stresses its relationship to three key essays by Mann.

The first book to examine Goethe's writings on the daemonic in relation to both Classical philosophy and German Idealism.

New essays by leading scholars on the most perplexing of modern writers, Franz Kafka.

The first major study of the neglected fiction works of the well-known revolutionary politician Kurt Eisner.

A new evaluation of one of the most significant Holocaust poets, Nelly Sachs (1891-1970), offering the first sustained critical analysis of Sachs's largely unanalyzed pre-war poetry and prose.

New essays examining Goethe's relationship to the Jews, and the contribution of Jewish scholars to the fame of the greatest German writer.

This work studies in detail a heretofore much neglected aned aspect of German literature.

A new translation of Rilke's groundbreaking volume, following the formal properties of the original poems, especially meter and rhyme, as closely as English allows.

Drawing upon the most current methodologies, the essays in this book pursue the multifarious functions of end-times in medieval German texts.

Poems by and biographies of inmates of the Dachau Concentration Camp, testimonies to the persistence of the humanity and creativity of the individual in the face of extreme suffering.

First treatment of a conspicuously East German feature in today's German literature, that of autobiographical writing -- and rewriting.

Comprehensive view of Andreas-Salome's fictional works, focusing on her depictions of women and questions of narrative and identity.

Close readings of -- and the stories behind -- poems that are direct documents of the Holocaust.

Makes available in reliable English translation Wagner's original Siegfried libretto and his early essay on the Nibelung myth.

The first comprehensive study in English of Schmidt's famous and controversial novel.

An advanced introduction for students and a re-orientation for Nietzsche scholars and intellectual historians on the development of his thought and the aesthetic construction of his identity as a philosopher.

The first English scholarly edition of Schiller's pivotal essay, accompanied by the first comprehensive commentary on it.

Death still comes to Everyman, but this study of three twentieth-century German plays shows the harder challenge of living without salvation in an age of war and unprecedented mass destruction.

This study investigates six German Jewish writers' negotiation of Jewish-German-Communist identity in post-Holocaust East Germany.

Volume of new essays investigating Kleist's influences and sources both literary and philosophical, their role as paradigms, and the ways in which he responded to and often shattered them.

The first study to utilize the Klagenfurt Edition of Musil's Nachlass offers a close reading of textual variations, emphasizing Musil's commitment to the artist's role in re-creating the world.

A historical survey of German films as works of art from the beginnings to the present, suitable for classroom use.

Takes the recent wave of German autobiographical writing on illness and disability seriously as literature, demonstrating the value of a literary disability studies approach.

This collection reflects on the development of disability studies in German-speaking Europe and brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on disability in German, Austrian, and Swiss history and culture.

Explores the storytelling of Anna Seghers and other 20th-century writers who faced the tensions between aesthetics and politically conscious writing, between conformity and resistance.

Study of the critical reception of one of the most famous and widely read works of modern literature.