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Paul Klee, Poet/Painter
First scholarly monograph devoted to Klee's poetry illuminates the reciprocity of poetry and painting in Klee's creative world and in early modernism. It is no coincidence that …
A Companion to the Works of Rainer Maria Rilke
Illuminates the major aspects of the works of Germany's greatest 20th-century poet. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is the best-known German poet of his generation and is widely …
A Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch
Covers the major modernist literary works of Broch and constitutes the first comprehensive introduction in English to his political, cultural, aesthetic, and philosophical …
Mountains and the German Mind
The first scholarly English translations of thirteen vital texts that elucidate the central role mountains have played across nearly five centuries of Germanophone cultural …
Ulrike Meinhof and West German Terrorism
First specialized study of Meinhof and the RAF in English, focusing on their use of language to justify extreme violence. In 1970 Ulrike Meinhof abandoned a career as a political …
A Companion to Wagner's Parsifal
New essays demonstrating and exploring the abiding fascination of Wagner's controversial work. Richard Wagner's Parsifal remains an inexhaustible yet highly controversial work. …
The Faustian Century
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 …
The Novels of Erich Maria Remarque
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 …
A Companion to the Works of Thomas Mann
Sixteen new, carefully focused essays on the prose works of one of the great writers of modernity. Thomas Mann is among the greatest of German prose writers, and was the first …
Politics and Truth in Hölderlin
The first English-language study devoted to Hölderlin's novel in three decades, this book reveals Hyperion's literary and philosophical richness and its complex ties with politics, …
Heinrich von Kleist and Modernity
New essays employing a multitude of approaches to the works of Kleist, in the process shedding light on our present modernity. Modernity, according to some views, poses the problem …
Nolten the Painter
First English translation of Mörike's strikingly modern artist-novel of 1832. When one thinks of German artist-novels and Bildungsromane, works long available in translation come …