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German history films that focus on utopianism and political dissent and their effect on German identity since 1989. Since unification, a radical shift has taken place in Germans' view of their...

This work studies in detail a heretofore much neglected aned aspect of German literature. This collection of twenty-three essays sets its sights on the points of queerness, marginality, and alterity...

A superb new (and complete) translation of Rilke's luminously lyrical early book of poems, with scholarly introduction and commentary. Rainer Maria Rilke is arguably the most important modern...

At last an engaging and highly readable guide to the works and significance of Goethe. The year 1999 saw the 250th anniversary of the birth of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany's greatest writer...

Examines literary, philosophical, and cultural influences on Mahler's thought and work from the standpoint of the composer's position in German-Jewish culture. Gustav Mahler's music is more popular...

A collection of essays offering a nuanced understanding of the complex question of identity in today's Germany. This collection of fifteen essays by scholars from the UK, the US, Germany, and...

A study that must be read by all scholars and students of Joyce. Since its appearance in 1922, James Joyce's novel Ulysses has remained extremely popular, never having gone out of print. Since the...

Reveals Ann Tizia Leitich, American correspondent for Austrian newspapers in the 1920s and 1930s, as an important cultural mediator between the two countries. After the First World War, Vienna was...

Investigates German religious drama since the 1970s, asking the question whether it develops religious themes or only exploits religious motifs, and exploring how it reflects the changing place of...

Investigates how culture in the Age of Goethe shaped and was shaped by a sustained and multifaceted debate about the place of religion in politics, philosophy, and culture. The eighteenth century is...

A groundbreaking treatment of the themes of colonialism and Africa in German literary fiction as presented in some fifty novels from the past three decades. In the late 1990s, in the wake of German...

Renaissance Papers collects the best essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. In the 2007 volume, two essays focus on Shakespeare's Roman plays: one on Lavinia's death...

Articles on works of Marlowe, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Marston, Webster, Jonson, Mary Wroth, and Milton; and two historical articles on aspects of the court of King James I. Renaissance Papers is...

Newest annual volume of selected essays on aspects of the Renaissance. Renaissance Papers is a collection of the best scholarly essays on all aspects of the Renaissance submitted each year to the...

Eleven articles on aspects of the Renaissance, chief among them women writers, art, and drama. Renaissance Papers is a collection of the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern...

The current volume contains nine articles reflecting a wide range of approaches to Renaissance literary performance and theory. Renaissance Papers is a collection of the best scholarly essays...

Annual collection of essays, this year treating works by Donne, Shakespeare, Marvell, and Spenser, among other topics. Renaissance Papers is a collection of the best scholarly essays submitted each...

Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The theme of this year's volume is "sacred places, secular spaces." It begins...

Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. This volume examines the sacred and the profane in the early modern period. The...

Explodes the conventional wisdom that there was a taboo on the topic of flight and expulsion in East Germany. It is by now almost a clich? that the flight and expulsion of Germans from east-central...

Essays analyzing postwar literary, cultural, and historical representations of "good Germans" during the Second World War and the Nazi period. In the aftermath of the Second World War, both the...

Provides the first comprehensive analysis of the history of returning German POWs after the Second World War, explored as a history of memory both during Germany's division and after unification...

New collection of essays promising to re-energize the debate on Nazism's occult roots and legacies and thus our understanding of German cultural and intellectual history over the past century...

Views adaptations as a way in which Germany seeks to come to terms with its past. Coming to terms with the past has been a preoccupation within German culture and German Studies since the Second...

Essays on and interviews with minoritized writers of contemporary Germany, mostly women or non-binary, whose literary interventions write radical diversity into the dominant culture and challenge...

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. When the people of Dresden rose up against their...

In examining Schiller's often-neglected use of gesture, this study treats his dramas as written to be performed -- not merely read. Many aspects of the works of Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) have...

Friedrich Schiller, the dramatist and poet, greatly influenced the development of aesthetics through his essays. He sums up the eighteenth century while anticipating modern ideas; his notions of the...

A fresh look at the critical reception of Schiller's early dramas such as The Robbers and Don Carlos. The interpretation of the works of Friedrich Schiller, with Goethe one of the co-founders of...

New translations of Schiller's literary prose works, accompanied by fresh critical essays. Friedrich Schiller was a dramatist and poet for the ages, an important aesthetic theorist, and among...