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Arno Schmidt's Zettel's Traum
The first comprehensive study in English of Schmidt's famous and controversial novel. Arno Schmidt (1914-1979) is considered one of the most daring and influential writers of …
From a Good Family
First English translation of the famous German novel about a woman's struggle against Victorian social conventions, now in paperback for classroom use. Upon publication in 1895, …
German Culture, Politics, and Literature into the Twenty-First Century
The first major study of the contemporary German debate over "normalization" and its impact across the range of cultural, political, economic, intellectual, and historical …
The World as Metaphor in Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities
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 …
A Companion to the Works of Walter Benjamin
An advanced introduction to Benjamin's work and its actualization for our own times. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) has emerged as one of the leading cultural critics of the twentieth …
Heinrich von Kleist
WINNER of the 2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award Volume of new essays investigating Kleist's influences and sources both literary and philosophical, their role as …
Reading W. G. Sebald
A daring new view of Sebald's works and the reading practice they call forth. W. G. Sebald was born in 1944 in Germany. He found his way as a young academic to England and a career …
A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Heine
A collection of new essays treating the most important aspects of the work of the most famous late Romantic, Heinrich Heine. As the most prominent German-Jewish Romantic writer, …
Women in the Works of Lou Andreas-Salomé
Comprehensive view of Andreas-Salomé's fictional works, focusing on her depictions of women and questions of narrative and identity. The writer and intellectual Lou Andreas-Salomé …
The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus
Written against a background of the Thirty Years' War and firstpublished in 1669, this renowned picaresque classic recounts withwonderful biting satire the vagabond adventures of a …
A Poet's Reich
A re-examination of the George Circle in the cultural and political contexts of Wilhelmine, Weimar, and Nazi Germany. Stefan George (1868-1933) was one of the most important …
Sophie Discovers Amerika
Cultural and literary historians investigate the unique literary bridge between German-speaking women and the "New World," examining novels, films, travel literature, poetry, …