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“nina schmidt”

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  • The Wounded Self

    Writing Illness in Twenty-First-Century German Literature

    by Nina Schmidt ...
    In the German-speaking world there has been a new wave - intensifying since 2007 - of autobiographically inspired writing on illness and disability, death and dying. Nina Schmidt's book takes this writing seriously as literature,examining how the authors of such personal narratives come to write of their experiences between the poles of cliché and exceptionality. Identifying shortcomings in the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Wittgenstein's Novels

    by Martin Klebes ...
    Series series Studies in Philosophy
    Analyzing features of Wittgenstein's philosophical work and including in-depth textual analyses, this study investigates the impact of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work on contemporary German and French novelists.Drawing upon aesthetics, architectural history, philosophy of science, and photography, the book seeks to explain why references both to Wittgenstein as a person, as well as to his work are more ... Read more

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  • Towards a General Theory of Translational Action

    Skopos Theory Explained

    by Katharina Reiss, Hans J Vermeer ...
    Translated by Christiane Nord ...
    This is the first English translation of the seminal book by Katharina Reiß and Hans Vermeer, Grundlegung einer allgemeinen Translationstheorie, first published in 1984. The first part of the book was written by Vermeer and explains the theoretical foundations and basic principles of skopos theory as a general theory of translation and interpreting or ‘translational action’, whereas the second ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Shape of Spectatorship

    Art, Science, and Early Cinema in Germany

    by Scott Curtis ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Scott Curtis draws our eye to the role of scientific, medical, educational, and aesthetic observation in shaping modern spectatorship. Focusing on the nontheatrical use of motion picture technology in Germany between the 1890s and World War I, he follows researchers, teachers, and intellectuals as they negotiated the fascinating, at times fraught relationship between technology, discipline, and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Our Common Denominator

    Human Universals Revisited

    by Christoph Antweiler ...
    Since the politicization of anthropology in the 1970s, most anthropologists have been reluctant to approach the topic of universals—that is, phenomena that occur regularly in all known human societies. In this volume, Christoph Antweiler reasserts the importance of these cross-cultural commonalities for anthropological research and for life and co-existence beyond the academy. The question ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • 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

  • An Emotional State

    The Politics of Emotion in Postwar West German Culture

    by Anna M. Parkinson ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    This literary-historical study seeks to dismantle the prevailing notion that Germany, in the period following the Second World War, exhibited an “inability to mourn,” arguing that in fact this period experienced a surge of affect. Anna Parkinson examines the emotions explicitly manifested or addressed in a variety of German cultural artifacts, while also identifying previously unacknowledged (and ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • The Sociology of Space

    Materiality, Social Structures, and Action

    by Martina Löw ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In this book, the author develops a relational concept of space that encompasses social structure, the material world of objects and bodies, and the symbolic dimension of the social world. Löw’s guiding principle is the assumption that space emerges in the interplay between objects, structures and actions. Based on a critical discussion of classic theories of space, Löw develops a new dynamic ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • The Impact of Idealism: Volume 2, Historical, Social and Political Thought

    The Legacy of Post-Kantian German Thought

    by Nicholas Boyle, Liz Disley ...
    The first study of its kind, The Impact of Idealism assesses the impact of classical German philosophy on science, religion and culture. This second volume explores German Idealism's impact on the historical, social and political thought of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Each essay focuses on an idea or concept from the high point of German philosophy around 1800, tracing ... Read more

    $112.39 USD

  • Metrical Claims and Poetic Experience

    Klopstock, Nietzsche, Grünbein

    by Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge ...
    This volume contributes to the fields of lyric poetry and poetics (especially poetic form), aesthetics, and German literature by intervening in debates on the social functions, cognitive and emotional effects, and the value of poetry. It builds on, and moves beyond, previous theories of rhythm to tie meter more particularly to the specificities of poetic language in blending of embodied responses, ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Music, Masculinity and the Claims of History

    The Austro-German Tradition from Hegel to Freud

    by Ian Biddle ...
    What does it mean to think of Western Art music - and the Austro-German contribution to that repertory - as a tradition? How are men and masculinities implicated in the shaping of that tradition? And how is the writing of the history (or histories) of that tradition shaped by men and masculinities? This book seeks to answer these and other questions by drawing both on a wide range of German ... Read more

    $73.99 USD