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  • Essays on German Literature

    In Honour of G. Joyce Hallamore

    Edited by Michael Batts, Marketa Stankiewicz ...
    Series series Heritage
    The present Festschrift serves a dual purpose: firstly, to honour Professor Joyce Hallamore for her contribution to German studies in Canada, particularly at the University of British Columbia; secondly, to document the flourishing state of German studies in this country. Former and present students of Professor Hallamore were asked to contribute essays from their varied fields of interest which ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Sport and the Neoliberal University

    Profit, Politics, and Pedagogy

    by Ryan King-White, Henry Giroux, Susan Searls Giroux, Neal C. Ternes, Michael D. Giardina, Jaime DeLuca, Callie Batts Maddox, Matthew G. Hawzen, Lauren C. Anderson, Joshua I. Newman0, Ellen J. Staurowsky1, Richard M. Southall2, Crystal Southall3, Oliver Rick4, Adam Beissel5, Jacob J. Bustad6, Ronald L. Mower7 ...
    Series series The American Campus
    College students are now regarded as consumers, not students, and nowhere is the growth and exploitation of the university more obvious than in the realm of college sports, where the evidence is in the stadiums built with corporate money, and the crowded sporting events sponsored by large conglomerates.The contributors to Sport and the Neoliberal University examine how intercollegiate athletics ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Rilke's Book of Hours

    Love Poems to God

    by Anita Barrows ...
    **A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/WEST TRANSLATION AWARDThe 100th Anniversary Edition of a global classic, containing beautiful translations along with the original German text.**While visiting Russia in his twenties, Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, was moved by a spirituality he encountered there. Inspired, Rilke returned to Germany and put down on paper what he felt ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties

    Translations and Considerations

    by John J. L. Mood, Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    An anthology of Rilke's strongest poetry and prose for both aficionados and new readers.Here is a mini-anthology of poetry and prose for both aficionados and those readers discovering Rainer Maria Rilke for the first time. John J. L. Mood has assembled a collection of Rilke's strongest work, presenting commentary along with the selections. Mood links into an essay passages from letters that show ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Lenz

    by Georg Buchner ...
    Translated by Richard Sieburth ...
    This classic of German literature—often hailed as the inception of European modernist prose—follows the mental breakdown of an 18th-century schizophrenic playwright, Jakob Michael Reinhold LenzPublished after Büchner’s death, Lenz provides a taut case study of three weeks in the life of schizophrenic, perhaps the first third-person text ever to be written from the “inside” of insanity. An early ... Read more

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  • The Kraus Project

    by Jonathan Franzen ...
    "Engrossing, highly original . . . Franzen finds in...Kraus a model of how to provoke readers while at the same time getting them to do some work." ― The New York Times Book ReviewA hundred years ago, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most penetrating and farsighted writers in Europe. In his self-published magazine, DieFackel, Kraus brilliantly attacked the popular media's ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Duino Elegies

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    This bilingual edition offers twenty-first century readers a new opportunity to experience the power of Rilke's enduring masterpiece. Selected by PHILLIP PULLMAN as one of his 40 favourite books: 'For me, the greatest poetry of the 20th century.' MAGMA: 'deserves to become the standard English edition worldwide' POETRY LONDON: 'substantial, powerful and necessary work' TRANSLATION AND LITERATURE: ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Selected Poetry

    by Goethe ...
    'Shall I embrace you, must I let you go? Again you haunt me: come then, hold me fast!'Goethe viewed the writing of poetry as essentially autobiographical and the works selected in this volume represent over sixty years in the life of the poet. In early poems such as 'Prometheus' he rails against religion in an almost ecstatic fervour, while 'To the Moon' is an enigmatic meditation on the end of a ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Rainer Maria Rilke's <I>The Book of Hours</I>

    A New Translation with Commentary

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Translated by Susan Ranson ...
    Rainer Maria Rilke is arguably the most important modern German-language poet. His New Poems, Duino Elegies, and Sonnets to Orpheus are pillars of 20th-century poetry. Yet his earlier verse is less known. The Bookof Hours, written in three bursts between 1899 and 1903, is Rilke's most formative work, covering a crucial period in his rapid ascent from fin-de-siècle epigone to distinctive modern ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Sonnets to Orpheus

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Translated by Willis Barnstone ...
    Written during an astonishing outburst of creativity during a period of only two weeks in February 1922, Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus is one of the great poetic works of the twentieth century. Willis Barnstone brings these striking poems into English with an approach honed through years of work on the philosophy of translation, about which he has written extensively. This dual-language edition ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Flight and Metamorphosis

    Poems

    by Nelly Sachs ...
    Translated by Joshua Weiner ...
    The central collection by the poet, dramatist, and Nobel laureate Nelly Sachs, newly translated by Joshua Weiner (with Linda B. Parshall).So far out, in the open,cushioned in sleep.In flight from the landwith love's heavy luggage.A butterfly-zone of dreamslike an open parasolheld up against the truth.Flight and Metamorphosis marks the culmination... ... Read more

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  • Duino Elegies

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelicorders? and even if one of them pressed mesuddenly to his heart: I'd be consumedin that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothingbut the beginning of terror, which we can just barely endure,and we stand in awe of it as it coolly disdainsto destroy us. Every angel is terrifying.-from "The First Elegy"Over the last fifteen years, in his two ... Read more

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