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We Are the Machine
An investigation of attitudes toward -- and unease with -- Information Technology, as reflected in recent German-language literature. Despite our embrace of the sheer utility and …
Metamimesis
Reconsiders the role played by mimesis - and by Goethe's Wilhelm Meister as a mimetic work - in the novels of Early German Romanticism. Mimesis, or the imitation of nature, is one …
Herder Yearbook Vol. 1
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) has long been considered a model case for comparative research. Recent interest in his work here and abroad as well as the publication of new …
Army-Chaplain Schmelzle's Journey to Flaetz and Life of Quintus Fixlein
Carlyle's translations of two of Jean Paul's most accomplished novels. Thomas Carlyle's preoccupation with German literature and the German spirit, beginning in 1819, had …
Unpublishable Works
Investigation of the work of Wolfgang Borchert, the Second World War German poet and dramatist. This book is a study of Germany's first post-war author, Wolfgang Borchert, …
Marriage, Gender, and Desire in Early Enlightenment German Comedy
Reveals eighteenth-century German comedies' inherent resistance -- through their depiction of alternative gender roles and sexual behavior -- to the emerging discourse of the …
Seven Stories by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
New translations of short stories by one of the great women writers of the 19th century. This collection makes available for the first time in modern English translation seven …
Günter Grass and His Critics
A comprehensive narrative overview and analysis of the criticism of the controversial German author's works. When the Swedish Academy announced that Günter Grass had been awarded …
The Indo-German Identification
The nineteenth-century development -- and later consequences -- of the imagined relationship between ancient India and modern German culture. In the early nineteenth century, …
A Companion to the Works of Arthur Schnitzler
A fresh collection of essays on the work of one of the leading figures of the Viennese fin de siècle. This volume of specially commissioned essays takes a fresh look at the …
Music in the Works of Broch, Mann, and Kafka
The German Romantic critic Friedrich Schlegel saw music as a paradigm of art, and wished to bring the qualities of music to literature. Schopenhauer saw in music a direct …
Twentieth-Century Reworkings of German Literature
A "literary reworking" is a fictional work based on an earlier, usually canonical, literary work. Gundula M. Sharman considers six twentieth-century examples of this phenomenon in …