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  • Animal, Vegetal, Marginal

    The German Literary Grotesque from Panizza to Kafka

    by Joela Jacobs ...
    Series series German Jewish Cultures
    Between the Kaiser's and Hitler's Reichs, the genre of die Groteske, or the German literary grotesque, sold out cabarets, drew droves of radio listeners, and created bestsellers with its irreverent comedy and critique. At the same time, its authors were ruthlessly censored for their satire of society, leaving die Groteske virtually unknown today.As the first full-length study of the genre, Animal, ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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  • Unlearning with Hannah Arendt

    by Marie Luise Knott ...
    Short-listed for the Tractatus Essay Prize, an examination of the innovative strategies Arendt used to achieve intellectual freedomAfter observing the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt articulated her controversial concept of the “banality of evil,” thereby posing one of the most chilling and divisive moral questions of the twentieth century: How can genocidal acts be carried out by non ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Necessary Luxuries

    Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815

    by Matt Erlin ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    The consumer revolution of the eighteenth century brought new and exotic commodities to Europe from abroad—coffee, tea, spices, and new textiles to name a few. Yet one of the most widely distributed luxury commodities in the period was not new at all, and was produced locally—the book. In Necessary Luxuries Matt Erlin considers books and the culture around books during this period, focusing ... Read more

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  • Franz Kafka (1883-1983)

    His Craft and Thought

    Edited by Roman Struc, John Yardley ...
    The eight papers in this volume were originally presented at the centennial conference on Franz Kafka held at the University of Calgary in October 1983. As diverse in approach and methodology as these papers are “the general drift of the volume is away from Germanistik towards ‘state-of-the-art’ methods.”The opening articles by Charles Bernheimer and James Rolleston both deal with the similarities ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Franz Werfel: The Faith of an Exile

    From Prague to Beverly Hills

    by Lionel Steiman ...
    Franz Werfel was born in Prague in 1890 and died in Beverly Hills in 1945, a popular and artistic success in Europe and America. Despite his Jewish birth and upbringing, he was attracted to Christianity at any early age, and although he never formally converted, he celebrated his own vision of it in his entire life's work. The origina sof that peculiar faith and the response it engendered in ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism

    Edited by Nicholas Saul ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw an extraordinary flowering of arts and culture in Germany which produced many of the world's finest writers, artists, philosophers and composers. This volume, first published in 2004, offers students and specialists an authoritative introduction to that dazzling cultural phenomenon, now known collectively as German Romanticism. Individual ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Kinaesthetic Knowing

    Aesthetics, Epistemology, Modern Design

    by Zeynep Çelik Alexander ...
    Is all knowledge the product of thought? Or can the physical interactions of the body with the world produce reliable knowledge? In late-nineteenth-century Europe, scientists, artists, and other intellectuals theorized the latter as a new way of knowing, which Zeynep Çelik Alexander here dubs "kinaesthetic knowing."In this book, Alexander offers the first major intellectual history of kinaesthetic ... Read more

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  • The Brothers Grimm

    From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World

    by Jack Zipes ...
    Most of the fairy tales that we grew up with we know thanks to the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, one of our surest guides through the world of fairy tales and their criticism, takes behind the romantics mythology of the wandering brothers. Bringing to bear his own critical expertise, as well as new biographical information, Zipes examines the interaction between the Grimms' lives and their work. He ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Violent Sensations

    Sex, Crime, and Utopia in Vienna and Berlin, 1860-1914

    by Scott Spector ...
    Around the turn of the twentieth century, Vienna and Berlin were centers of scientific knowledge, accompanied by a sense of triumphalism and confidence in progress. Yet they were also sites of fascination with urban decay, often focused on sexual and criminal deviants and the tales of violence surrounding them. Sensational media reports fed the prurient public’s hunger for stories from the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Kafka's The Trial

    Philosophical Perspectives

    Edited by Espen Hammer ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Lit
    Kafka's novel The Trial, written from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925, is a multi-faceted, notoriously difficult manifestation of European literary modernism, and one of the most emblematic books of the 20th Century. It tells the story of Josef K., a man accused of a crime he has no recollection of committing and whose nature is never revealed to him. The novel is often interpreted ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Modern German Literature

    by Michael Minden ...
    Series series Cultural History of Literature
    This accessible and fresh account of German writing since 1750 is a case study of literature as a cultural and spiritual resource in modern societies.Beginning with the emergence of German language literature on the international stage in the mid-eighteenth century, the book plays down conventional labels and periodisation of German literary history in favour of the explanatory force of ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Meaning and Representation in History

    Edited by Jörn Rüsen ...
    Series Book 7 - Making Sense of History
    History has always been more than just the past. It involves a relationship between past and present, perceived, on the one hand, as a temporal chain of events and, on the other, symbolically as an interpretation that gives meaning to these events through varying cultural orientations, charging it with norms and values, hopes and fears. And it is memory that links the present to the past and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD