Camden House (NY)

Investigates the concept of transnationalism and its significance in and for German-language literature and culture. Transnationalism has become a key term in debates in the social sciences and...

Close readings of -- and the stories behind -- poems that are direct documents of the Holocaust. Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Christianstadt, Dachau. The names of Nazi concentration camps evoke images of...

Explores the significance of postwar German representations of violence in other places and times. Germany's twentieth-century history has made imagining and representing violence in German culture...

Explores the significance of postwar German representations of violence in other places and times. Germany's twentieth-century history has made imagining and representing violence in German culture...

Examines ideas of violence in German culture after 9/11 through the lens of "violence elsewhere" - exploring works and discourses about violence in distant locations or times. Following the Nazi era,...

Examines ideas of violence in German culture after 9/11 through the lens of "violence elsewhere" - exploring works and discourses about violence in distant locations or times. Following the Nazi era,...

Collection of essays exploring the controversies surrounding images of the Holocaust. Visual representations are an essential but highly contested means of understanding and remembering the Holocaust...

Makes available in reliable English translation Wagner's original Siegfried libretto and his early essay on the Nibelung myth. In 1848 Richard Wagner began what would become the largest stage work of...

Lost novel of a "typical" German family in the waning days of the Weimar Republic. 1932, the eve of the Nazi seizure of power: Germany beset with street violence, hunger, anti-Semitism, and despair;...

Investigates the connections between German writers H.G. Adler and W.G. Sebald and reveals a new hybrid paradigm of writing about the Holocaust in light of the wider literary-political implications...

Studies representations of women and death by women to see whether and how they differ from patriarchal versions. In Western culture, women are often linked with death, perhaps because they are...

Identifies and analyzes thematizations of women and death from the past five centuries, illuminating the present and recent past. The theme of women and death is pervasive in the German culture of...

New view of the crucial role of fashion discourse and practice in Weimar Germany and its significance for women. In the Weimar Republic, fashion was not only manipulated by the various mass media --...

The first full-length study of the reception of Wordsworth's poetry and theory. William Wordsworth, often regarded as the High Priest of British Romantic Poetry, certainly had the longest career of...

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 comprehensive survey of German literary writers' political writing and involvement since 1945. George Orwell said that all writing is political; but the writers of some nations and some periods are...

A study of the "patchwork imaginary" that is postwall Berlin fiction and its significance for the new Germany. The wall was still coming down when critics began to call for the great Berlin novel...

A study of the enormous influence of the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche on turn-of-the-century German literature. The aim of this book is to explore "that post-Nietzschean archipelago of German...