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Shows that the work of Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) forms a philosophy of dialogue and communication that is crucially relevant to contemporary debates in the Humanities.
This collection of new essays explores how Germany's imagined Asia informed its national fantasies at crucial historical junctures. It will influence future scholarly explorations of Asian-German cultural transfer.
Masculinist and feminist worldviews in post-1945 German literature, and the possibility of a dynamic reconceptualization of human subjectivity.
Studies representations of women and death by women to see whether and how they differ from patriarchal versions.
New essays exploring the relationship between warfare and Enlightenment thought both historically and in the present.
New essays on the evolution of cultural memory of the former German Democratic Republic since 1989-90 and its importance for Germany's continuing unification process.
A much-needed look at the fiction that was actually read by masses of Germans in the late nineteenth century, and the conditions of its publication and reception.
A varied, vivid view of the literary culture of the often-neglected interwar Austrian republic.
By reconsidering Kleist's reception of Rousseau and placing it in historical context, this book sheds new light on a range of political and ethical issues at play in Kleist's work.
Investigates German religious drama since the 1970s, asking the question whether it develops religious themes or only exploits religious motifs, and exploring how it reflects the changing place of religion and spirituality in theworld.
First comprehensive study in English of Germany's most prominent female author.
Competing representations of the former East German state in the German cultural memory.
Interdisciplinary views of the debates over and transformation of German cultural identity since unification.
Essays analyzing postwar literary, cultural, and historical representations of "good Germans" during the Second World War and the Nazi period.
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 not-so-simplesimpleton during one of Europe's fiercest, yet ultimately most futilewars. Simplicius is an earthy character; he humiliates the mighty, confounds the gods, ridicules the pretentious. The translationuses the authoritative first edition for its text, and though it hasbeen slightly abbreviated, no essential passages have been sacrificed.This unexpurgated translation reflects the linguistic turmoil andrichness of German in the 17th century; it is ideal as the centrepiecefor courses in German literature in translation and courses in theEuropean Baroque.
New essays by leading scholars giving a new picture of the variety of German expressionist cinema.
New essays providing a comprehensive scholarly introduction to the great writer and thinker Canetti.
Examines the intense intellectual debates in immediate postwar Germany, often conducted in literature or literary discourse.
New, specially commissioned essays on representative works of 19th-century German realism.
New essays by outstanding European and American medievalists on major aspects of the most enduring medieval epic.
Fresh essays on the works of the most significant -- and readable -- German Baroque author.
A collection of new essays treating the most important aspects of the work of the most famous late Romantic, Heinrich Heine.
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