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  • The Short Story in German in the Twenty-First Century

    by Lyn Marven, Helmut Schmitz, Gillian Pye, Heide Kunzelmann, Elizabeth Boa, Heike Bartel, Aine McMurtry, Rafaël Newman, Caroline Wiedmer, Leonhard Herrmann0, Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger1, Andrew Plowman3, Kate Roy5, Katharina Gerstenberger6, Todd Herzog7, Emily Spiers8 ...
    Since the 1990s, the short story has re-emerged in the German-speaking world as a vibrant literary genre, serving as a medium for both literary experimentation and popular forms. Authors like Judith Hermann and Peter Stamm have had a significant impact on German-language literary culture and, in translation, on literary culture in the UK and USA. This volume analyzes German-language short-story ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Emerging German-Language Novelists of the Twenty-First Century

    by Lyn Marven, Professor Julian Preece, Kate Roy, Executive Dean Rebecca Braun, Sonja Klocke, Professor Stephen Brockmann, Stuart Taberner, Valerie Heffernan, Andrew Plowman0, Anke S. Biendarra1, Barbara Mennel2, Brigid Haines3, Emily Jeremiah4, Frauke Matthes5, Heike Bartel6 ...
    After the international success in the 1990s of authors such as Bernhard Schlink, Marcel Beyer, and Thomas Brussig, an impressive number of new German-language novelists are making a significant impact. Some, like Karen Duve, Daniel Kehlmann, and Sasa Stanisic, have achieved international recognition; some, like Julia Franck, have won major prizes; others, like Clemens Meyer, Alina Bronsky, and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Berlin Tales

    Edited by Helen Constantine ...
    Series series City Tales
    Berlin Tales is a collection of seventeen translated stories associated with Berlin. The book provides a unique insight into the mind of this fascinating city through the eyes of its story-tellers. Nearly twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the stories collected here reflect on the city's fascinating recent history, setting out with the early twentieth-century Berlin of Siegfried ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

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  • Comparative Children's Literature

    by Emer O'Sullivan ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
    WINNER OF THE 2007 CHLA BOOK AWARD!Children's literature has transcended linguistic and cultural borders since books and magazines for young readers were first produced, with popular books translated throughout the world.Emer O'Sullivan traces the history of comparative children's literature studies, from the enthusiastic internationalism of the post-war period – which set out from the idea of a ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Tatort Germany

    The Curious Case of German-Language Crime Fiction

    by Lynn M. Kutch, Magdalena Waligórska, Sascha Gerhards, Susanne C. Knittel, Todd Herzog, Traci S. O'Brien, Angelika Baier, Anita McChesney, Carol Anne Costabile-Heming0, Faye Stewart1, Heike Henderson2, Jon Sherman3, Kyle Frackman4 ...
    Although George Bernard Shaw quipped that "the Germans lack talent for two things: revolution and crime novels," there is a long tradition of German crime fiction; it simply hasn't aligned itself with international trends. Duringthe 1920s, German-language writers dispensed with the detective and focused instead on criminals, a trend that did not take hold in other countries until after 1945, by ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse

    The Politics of Memory

    by A. Fuchs ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse offers an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of fundamental shifts in German cultural memory. Focusing on the resurgence of family stories in fiction, autobiography and in film, this study challenges the institutional boundaries of Germany's memory culture that have guided and arguably limited German identity debates. Essays ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Anxious Journeys

    Twenty-First-Century Travel Writing in German

    by Professor Karin Baumgartner, John Blair, Magda Tarnawska Senel, Monika Shafi, Professor Muriel Cormican, Nicole Coleman, Nicole Grewling, Sunka Simon, Andrew Wright Hurley0, Anke S. Biendarra1, Carola Daffner2, Christina Gerhardt3, Christina Kraenzle4, Gundela Hachmann5, Heather Merle Benbow6 ...
    The rich contemporary literature of travel has been the focus of numerous recent publications in English that seek to understand how travel narratives, with their distinctive representations of identities, places, and cultures, respond to today's globalized, high-speed world characterized by the dual mass movements of tourism and migration. Yet a corresponding cutting-edge discussion of twenty ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • An Other Kind of Home

    Gender-Sexual Abjection, Subjectivity, and the Uncanny in Literature and Film

    by Kyle Frackman ...
    Series Book 9 - Kulturtransfer und Geschlechterforschung
    In this study, the author examines works of German-language literature and film from the nineteenth and twentieth century in order to chart a certain kind of otherness. Common to all of the examined cultural products are aspects of gender, sexuality, a notion of home or belonging, and pressures of abjection. Other elements of identity include race and disease. The characters in the analyzed works ... Read more

    $49.59 USD

  • Breaking the Magic Spell

    Radical Theories of Folk & Fairy Tales

    by Jack Zipes ...
    "Zipes ably demonstrates that moral, political, religious, and other ideologies have shaped these apparently innocent narratives." — Lore and LanguageThis revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark Breaking the Magic Spell examines the enduring power of fairy tales and the ways they invade our subjective world. In seven provocative essays, Zipes discusses the importance of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema

    Rediscovering Germany's Filmic Legacy

    by Christian Rogowski, John F Fetzer, Joseph Garncarz, Nancy Nenno, Ofer Ashkenazi, Philipp Stiasny, Richard W. McCormick, Veronika Fuechtner, Anjeana K. Hans, Chris Wahl0, Cynthia Walk1, Elizabeth Otto2, Jaimey Fisher3, Professor Jill Suzanne Smith4, Joel Westerdale5 ...
    Traditionally, Weimar cinema has been equated with the work of a handful of auteurist filmmakers and a limited number of canonical films. Often a single, limited phenomenon, "expressionist film," has been taken as synonymous with the cinema of the entire period. But in recent decades, such reductive assessments have been challenged by developments in film theory and archival research that ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Translating Canada

    Edited by Luise von Flotow, Reingard M. Nischik ...
    Series series Perspectives on Translation
    In the last thirty years of the twentieth century, Canadian federal governments offered varying degrees of support for literary and other artistic endeavour. A corollary of this patronage of culture at home was an effort to make the resulting works available for audiences elsewhere in the world. Current developments in the study of translation and its influence as cultural transfer have made ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Rammstein on Fire

    New Perspectives on the Music and Performances

    Edited by John T. Littlejohn, Michael T. Putnam ...
    This volume contains 13 original essays exploring Rammstein's stage performance and recorded works from multiple academic perspectives. Topics range from Rammstein's connection with 19th century German literature and their East German heritage to cannibalism and the supernatural. The panoramic view of approaches to Rammstein's music and performance goes beneath the surface and provides fan and ... Read more

    $11.89 USD