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The poet as an inheritor of an Emersonian tradition, and Paterson as an ethical autobiography in progress. William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) is the most influential figure in the development of...

Provides the first history of the North American farm novel, a genre which includes John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Sheila Watson's The Double Hook, and Louis H?mon's Maria Chapdelaine. From...

New essays revealing the enduring significance of the story made famous in the 1587 Faustbuch and providing insights into the forces that gave the sixteenth century its distinct character. The...

Essays examining the rift between British and German intellectual and cultural traditions before 1914 and its effect on events. This volume of essays examines the perceived rift between the British...

Competing representations of the former East German state in the German cultural memory. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the consequences of the country's divided past continue to be...

A much-needed look at the fiction that was actually read by masses of Germans in the late nineteenth century, and the conditions of its publication and reception. The late nineteenth century was a...

Overview of the critical history of the German novella. Originating with Boccaccio during the Italian Renaissance, the novella, a cyclical collection of frame stories in prose, quickly inspired many...

The employment of the hotel as a setting for literary works of the period and the cultural reasons behind it. As the bourgeois concept of "home" became problematic after important changes in...

Examines the image of the US in German poetry and the reception and influence of American poetry in Germany since 1945. This book focuses on the image of the US in German poetry and the reception of...

The first comprehensive study in English of the life and works of the important postwar dramatist and short-story writer. Wolfgang Borchert has been called "the most important voice of post-war...

Sharply focused essays on the most significant aspects of German Romanticism. This volume of sharply focused essays by an international team of scholars deals not only with the most significant...

New essays providing an account of the shaping beliefs, preoccupations, motifs, and values of Weimar Classicism. In Germany, Weimar Classicism (roughly the period from Goethe's return to Germany from...

New essays re-evaluating Weimar cinema from a broadened, up-to-date perspective. Traditionally, Weimar cinema has been equated with the work of a handful of auteurist filmmakers and a limited number...

New essays examining the interface between 18th- and 20th-century culture both in Pynchon's novel and in the historical past. Thomas Pynchon's 1997 novel Mason & Dixon marked a deep shift in...

Analyzes two groups of "musical novels" -- novels that take music as a model for their construction -- including jazz novels by Toni Morrison and Michael Ondaatje, and novels based on Bach's Goldberg...

From intimate portrayals of ordinary Germans and Nazi leaders to immersive spectacles of war and defeat, this study argues that, since 1990, German film has focused on portraying the Nazi past from...

New view of Remarque's novels as a chronicle of the century yet more than a mere reflection of historical events. Erich Maria Remarque is a writer of great popularity who has rightly been described...

Survey of reception of German poet H?lderlin in French criticism and literature, with particular attention to Heidegger and his followers. The Poet as Thinker is the first historical survey of the...

First English translation of the final work of Theodor Fontane, one of Germany's most significant novelists. Theodor Fontane (1819-98), widely regarded as Germany's most significant novelist between...

New and insightful interpretations of the controversial stories of Heinrich von Kleist. The fascinating and controversial German writer of dramas and novellas Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) is one...

Analysis of Whitman's reflection of civil rights legislation in his work, 1865-1876. Walt Whitman's prolific Reconstruction project has remained the most uncultivated decade in Whitman studies for...

The first sustained interrogation of travel in Sebald's literary and essayistic work, employing multivalent and new critical perspectives. W.G. Sebald (1944-2001) is the most prominent and perhaps...

Examines the literature produced from the very beginnings of what became the GDR through the 1950s, redressing a tendency of literary scholarship to focus on the later GDR. Twenty-five years after...

Translation of nineteenth-century novel of life in a still-feudal Moravian village. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) is Austria's most important nineteenth-century woman writer, but her works...

Study of the three most signficant late works of the Austrian novelist and playwright Thomas Bernhard. (In German language.) Three late prose works of the Austrian novelist and playwright Thomas...

Study of the critical reception of one of the most famous and widely read works of modern literature. Thomas Mann's 1912 novella Death in Venice is one of the most famous and widely read texts in all...

A study of Mann's novel tetralogy of the 1930s that stresses its relationship to three key essays by Mann. McDonald's study offers fresh insights into Mann's Joseph tetralogy in two ways. Beginning...

The first detailed study of a major but neglected work by Thoreau. Until very recently, only a handful of Thoreau specialists knew of the existence of 'The Dispersion of Seeds', an ecological...

Essays in this volume seek to clarify the meaning of tragedy and the tragic in its many German contexts, art forms, and disciplines, from literature and philosophy to music, painting, and history...

Explores the psychology of literary translingualism in the works of two authors, finding it expressed as loss and fragmentation in one case and as opportunity and mediation in the other. The works of...