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

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.

A radically new view of Mann's last major novel.

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.

Valuable for its insights into Schiller's life and for Carlyle's peculiar relationship to Schiller and German literature in general.

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.

The first full-length study in English of Heinrich Mann's literary work and political activism.

Kafka's interest in and use of China establish him as a principal commentator in Western discourse on the Orient.

Proceedings of the Brandeis conference on Jewish Germanists who fled Nazi Germany and their impact on Anglo-American German studies.

A study of the rise of the German novel viewed from a feminist standpoint.

Essays on key aspects of Romanticism, viewed in a wider European context.

A analysis of recent German novelistic treatments of the effect of the Nazi past on the relationships between parents and children.

The first comprehensive study in English of the life and works of the important postwar dramatist and short-story writer.

A comprehensive survey of the renaissance of the German political drama in the years surrounding reunification.

Brings to light unsuspectedly rich sources of humor in the works of prominent nineteenth-century women writers.

First English translation of Moerike's strikingly modern artist-novel of 1832.

Essays examining the rift between British and German intellectual and cultural traditions before 1914 and its effect on events.

Crosses disciplinary boundaries to explore German Romantic writing about visual experience and the interplay of text and image in Romantic epistemology.

Traces the development of ideas of Nuremberg as cultural and spiritual capital, thus offering a coherent view of German cultural and intellectual history.

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

Identifies and analyzes thematizations of women and death from the past five centuries, illuminating the present and recent past.