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German Studies

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Women in German Expressionism

Gender, Sexuality, Activism

Edited by Anke Finger & Julie Shoults
Subjects: German Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, Modern Literature
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Literary scholarship questions and challenges the limited and fossilized gender narrative of German Expressionism

The Right to Difference

Interculturality and Human Rights in Contemporary German Literature

By Nicole Coleman
Subjects: German Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Race and Ethnicity

Develops a theory of intercultural literature to reconcile diversity with traditional notions of German identity

Ottoman Eurasia in Early Modern German Literature

Cultural Translations (Francisci, Happel, Speer)

By Gerhild Scholz Williams
Subjects: German Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies

Europe and the Ottoman Empire through three 17th-century writers

Kafka's Zoopoetics

Beyond the Human-Animal Barrier

By Naama Harel
Subjects: German Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Cultural Studies

Traces the dissolution of the boundary between human and other animals in the work of Franz Kafka and, in doing so, radically revisits interspecies relations

Imperial Fictions

German Literature Before and Beyond the Nation-State

By Todd Kontje
Subjects: German Studies, Literary Studies, History, German History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Rethinks German literature by challenging the notion that national literature is the narrative of a spiritually united people

Strangers in Berlin

Modern Jewish Literature between East and West, 1919–1933

By Rachel Elana Seelig
Subjects: Jewish Studies, German Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature
Series: Michigan Studies in Comparative Jewish Cultures

Insightful look at the interactions between German and migrant Jewish writers and the creative spectrum of Jewish identity

The Chatter of the Visible

Montage and Narrative in Weimar Germany

By Patrizia C. McBride
Subjects: Literary Studies, German Studies

An examination of the aesthetics and “chattering” effects of Weimar-era photo montage

Stop Reading! Look!

Modern Vision and the Weimar Photographic Book

By Pepper Stetler
Subjects: German Studies, Art, Literary Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Examines the connections between the emergence of Weimar photographic books and modern conceptions of photographic meaning

An Emotional State

The Politics of Emotion in Postwar West German Culture

By Anna M. Parkinson
Subjects: German Studies, Cultural Studies, History, Literary Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Reveals the extent of Germany’s emotional responses in the postwar period, challenging persistent paradigms

Bluestocking Feminism and British-German Cultural Transfer, 1750-1837

By Alessa Johns
Subjects: German Studies, History, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies

An examination of British and German processes of cultural transfer, as spearheaded by feminist reformists, from 1714 to 1837

Mediating Culture in the Seventeenth-Century German Novel

Eberhard Werner Happel, 1647-1690

By Gerhild Scholz Williams
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Media Studies, Journalism, Literary Studies, European Literature

A fascinating and exciting reevaluation of the 17th-century novels of Eberhard Happel

German Literature on the Middle East

Discourses and Practices, 1000-1989

By Nina Berman
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Literary Studies, European Literature
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

An investigation of Germany and the Middle East through literary sources, in the context of social, economic, and political practices

German Orientalisms

By Todd Kontje
Subjects: German Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, History

A fresh examination of the role of the East in the German literary imagination, ranging from the Middle Ages to the present

Anna Seghers

The Mythic Dimension

By Helen Fehervary
Subjects: German Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A fascinating study of one of the greatest German woman writers of the twentieth century

Truth to Tell

German Women's Autobiographies and Turn-of-the-Century Culture

By Katharina Gerstenberger
Subjects: German Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Gender Studies, History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

What did "woman" mean at the fin-de-siècle?

The Imperialist Imagination

German Colonialism and Its Legacy

Edited by Sara L. Friedrichsmeyer, Sara Lennox, and Susanne M. Zantop
Subjects: German Studies, History, Literary Studies, European Literature, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

The first anthology of essays to address colonial and postcolonial issues in German history, culture, and literature

Framed Visions

Popular Culture, Americanization, and the Contemporary German and Austrian Imagination

By Gerd Gemunden
Subjects: German Studies, History, Literary Studies, European Literature, Media Studies, Cinema Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Emphasizes the fluid relationship between literature, cinema, and social life

Rudolf Arnheim

Revealing Vision

Edited by Kent Kleinman & Leslie Van Duzer
Subjects: Art, Architecture, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, German Studies

Eminent contributors celebrate the distinguished career of art and film theorist Rudolf Arnheim

A User's Guide to German Cultural Studies

Edited by Scott Denham, Irene Kacandes, and Jonathan Petropoulos
Subjects: German Studies, History, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Capitalizes on the ripeness of the German case for interdisciplinary investigation

The Abyss of Freedom/Ages of the World

By Slavoj Zizek & F.W.J. von Schelling
Translated by Judith Norman
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Philosophy, German Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

An essay by philosopher Slavoj Zizek, with an English translation of Schelling's beautiful and evocative Ages of the World, second draft

Contemporary German Editorial Theory

Edited by Hans Walter Gabler, George Bornstein, and Gillian Borland Pierce
Subjects: Literary Studies, Editorial Theory, German Studies
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

Gathers the best work on editorial theory in Germany.

The Ambiguity of Taste

Freedom and Food in European Romanticism

By Jocelyne Kolb
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, German Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, 19th Century Literature

An exploration into the role of food in the aesthetic revolution of Romanticism

Border Crossings

An Introduction to East German Prose

By Thomas Fox
Subjects: German Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature

An accessible and comprehensive introduction to the work of East German writers

Transgressive Readings

The Texts of Franz Kafka and Max Planck

By Valerie D. Greenberg
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Literature and Science, German Studies, European Literature
Series: Studies in Literature and Science
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