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A comprehensive investigation of Hoffmann's "Serapiontic Principle" and what it implies for his oeuvre.

A daring new view of Sebald's works and the reading practice they call forth.

A fresh, nuanced view of Veza Canetti's literary career and its relationship to that of her famous husband.

A broad view of the impact of Turkish German writers' "literature of settlement" on the German literary scene and on German society.

A balanced study of gender in Novalis as expressed in his literary, political, and scientific writings and in his letters.

A bold new theoretical analysis of literary modernism and its conception of and relation to nature.

Reading as key to the mysterious relation between lifeless material bodies and living, animate beings in Romantic fiction and thought.

A strikingly new view of the novelistic career of the famously enigmatic interwar writer.

Explores both constants and changes in representations of warlike and violent women in German culture over the past six centuries.

The effects -- both inhibitory and creative -- of the 1819-1848 censorship on German-language literary writing.

German-language writings about Islam not only reveal much about Islamic culture but also about the European "home" culture.

An investigation of the structures of passivity in Kleist's work, which can be viewed as constituting a kind of poetics.

The prominent scholar-contributors to this volume share their experiences developing the field of US German Studies and their thoughts on literature and interdisciplinarity, pluralism and diversity, and transatlantic dialogue.

Offers readings of key contemporary trends and themes in the vibrant genre of short-story writing in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, with attention to major practitioners and translations of two representative stories.

Imaginatively explores violent images of nature as they appear in 18th-century literature.

Reissue in translation of Schiller's enigmatic novel fragment, his most popular work when it first appeared.

Considers Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) as a model case for comparative research.

A collection of essays on varied aspects of German and Scandinavian literature.

Situates the act of critical reading in the context of poetic aesthetics.

Analysis of teaching of German and proposals for reform of the curriculum in German studies.

A bibliography of Johann Hellwig, the 17th-century German baroque poet. It is presented with a documented career, a survey of his critical reception from 1634 to the present, and a necrology.

New translations of short stories by one of the great women writers of the 19th century.

Collection of essays on German and European literature.

Louise von Gall (1815-1855) wrote two novels, over 20 short stories, two comedies, and numerous feuilletons. She was a writer of fiction whose works betrayed her interests in politics, economics, technology, and the injustices suffered by a majority of the German population. This book aims to reappraise her works and achievements.

A phonological, grammatical, and lexical description of a German-American dialect, Michigan Frankenmuth.

Essays on 18th-century Sturm und Drang playwright J.M.R. Lenz, whose work shows many parallels with 20th-century theater.

Definitive text of important prose eclogue, Baroque German's contribution to western literary genres.

Critical study of great 17c German poet and dramatist.

Reconstructs the constitutive role that German actresses played on and off the stage in shaping not only modernist theater aesthetics and performance practices, but also influential strains of modern thought.

Shows how postwar writers in Austria and Yugoslavia re-imagined the concept of Mitteleuropa, Central Europe, as a cultural space between nostalgia and totalitarianism.