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Asian Fusion
German Literature, History and the Nation
This is the second of three volumes based on papers given at the 'Fragile Tradition' conference in Cambridge, 2002. Together they provide a conspectus of current research on the …
A Culture of Discontinuity?
This volume brings together diverse contributions from an international team of scholars, asking what has sustained Russian cultural development across the centuries and how …
Cultural Memory and Historical Consciousness in the German-speaking World Since 1500
This is the first of three volumes based on papers given at the conference 'The Fragile Tradition: The German Cultural Imagination Since 1500' in Cambridge, 2002. Together they …
Imagining the City
Urban living presents both challenges and opportunities for individuals and societies in their attempts to maintain and determine their cultural identity. Mobility, fragility, and …
Constellations of Reading
How to read Walter Benjamin today? This book argues that the proper way is through an approach which recognizes and respects his own peculiar theorization of the act of reading and …
Constructions of Melancholy in Contemporary German and Austrian Literature
Melancholy has become a central theme of German literature since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The rapidly changing sociopolitical circumstances of the post-1989 period and …
Playing False
Betrayal has never gone out of fashion. It is a ubiquitous phenomenon – from antiquity to the present, from the realm of politics to the most personal relationships. This book …
Other People’s Pain
How do we approach other people’s pain? This question is of crucial importance to the humanities, particularly literary and cultural studies, whenever they address narratives of …
Cannibal Angels
In the first three decades of the twentieth century, artists, writers, musicians, and architects from both sides of the Atlantic interacted to create a modern style for Brazil. …
Science, Technology and the German Cultural Imagination
This is the third and final volume of papers given at the 'Fragile Tradition' conference in Cambridge, 2002. Together these volumes provide a conspectus of current research on the …
Cures for Modernity
Why did medicine fascinate writers and filmmakers in the 1920s and 1930s? This book traces the prevalent medical themes in interwar Russian and Czech literature and cinema: …