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A Companion to the Works of Stefan George
New, wide-ranging essays on the controversial poet, who was both a harbinger of Modernism and a critic of modernity. Stefan George (1868-1933) is along with Hugo von Hofmannsthal …
Traumatic Verses
Close readings of -- and the stories behind -- poems that are direct documents of the Holocaust. Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Christianstadt, Dachau. The names of Nazi concentration …
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, …
Reworking the German Past
Coming to terms with the past has been a preoccupation within German culture and German Studies since the Second World War. In addition, there has been a surge of interest in …
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 …
Hanns Eisler's Art Songs
Traces Eisler's art songs through the political crises of the twentieth century, presenting them as a way to intervene in the nationalist appropriation of aesthetic material. Best …
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 Friedrich Schiller
New essays providing a in-depth view of the many facets of the great world poet's work. Friedrich Schiller is not merely one of Germany's foremost poets. He is also one of the …
Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers
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 …
Comparative Romanticisms: Power, Gender, Subjectivity
Essays on key aspects of Romanticism, viewed in a wider European context. Despite a century of sustained critical activity and an interest level in the last ten years never before …
Selected Works by J. M. R. Lenz
First representative English collection of the Sturm und Drang writer Lenz, suited for the classroom and anyone interested in German literature, the European Enlightenment, or the …
Goethe in German-Jewish Culture
New essays examining Goethe's relationship to the Jews, and the contribution of Jewish scholars to the fame of the greatest German writer. The success of Daniel Goldhagen's …