Roma Voices in the German-Speaking World

Lorely French

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in German Studies
• The Roma are Europe's largest minority, and yet they remain one of the most misunderstood and underrepresented. Scholarship on the Roma in German-spea... Lees meer

Jane Eyre in German Lands

Lynne Tatlock

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in German Studies
• Lynne Tatlock examines the transmission, diffusion, and literary survival of Jane Eyre in the German-speaking territories and the significance and eff... Lees meer

The German Illusion

Olivier Morel

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in German Studies
• Examines Jewish-German "tropes" in Hélène Cixous's oeuvre and life and their impact on her work as a feminist, poet, and playwright. Hélène Cixous is ... Lees meer

Authors and the World

Rebecca Braun

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in German Studies
• Authors and the World traces how four core 'modes of authorship' have developed and inflect one another in modern Germany through a series of twenty d... Lees meer

Figures of Natality

Joseph D O'Neil

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in German Studies
• Figures of Natality reads metaphors and narratives of birth in the age of Goethe (1770-1832) as indicators of the new, the unexpected, and the revolut... Lees meer

The Laughter of the Thracian Woman

Hans Blumenberg

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in German Studies
• An important work by 20-century philosopher Hans Blumenberg, here translated into English for the first time, The Laughter of the Thracian Woman descr... Lees meer

Stereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzler's Prose

Marie Kolkenbrock

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in German Studies
• What was the function of the invocation of destiny in the increasingly secularized era of turn-of-the-century Vienna? By exploring this question, Ster... Lees meer

Image in Outline

Gisela Brinker-Gabler

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in German Studies
• Image in Outline introduces the reader to Lou Andreas-Salomé's significant engagement with modern thought. Through detailed explorations o fsome of he... Lees meer

Laughter of the Thracian Woman

Hans Blumenberg

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in German Studies
• This is the first English translation of Hans Blumenberg's "The Laughter of the Thracian Woman," complete with annotations and a critical afterword. B... Lees meer

Modernism in Trieste

Salvatore Pappalardo

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in German Studies
• When we think about the process of European unification, our conversations inevitably ponder questions of economic cooperation and international polit... Lees meer

Jane Eyre in German Lands

Lynne Tatlock

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in German Studies
• Lynne Tatlock examines the transmission, diffusion, and literary survival of Jane Eyre in the German-speaking territories and the significance and eff... Lees meer

The Tragedy of Fatherhood

Silke-Maria Weineck

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in German Studies
• Winner of the 2015 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, awarded by the Modern Language Association. Theories of power hav... Lees meer

The Lever as Instrument of Reason

Jocelyn Holland

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in German Studies | nr. 25
• The lever appears to be a very simple object, a tool used since ancient times for the most primitive of tasks: to lift and to balance. Why, then, were... Lees meer

Image in Outline

Gisela Brinker-Gabler

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in German Studies
• Image in Outline introduces the reader to Lou Andreas-Salomé's significant engagement with modern thought. Through detailed explorations of some of he... Lees meer

Building Socialism

Curtis Swope

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in German Studies
• Building Socialism reveals how East German writers' engagement with the rapidly changing built environment from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s const... Lees meer

Germany from the Outside

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in German Studies
• The nation-state is a European invention of the 18th and 19th centuries. In the case of the German nation in particular, this invention was tied close... Lees meer

Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in German Studies | nr. 23
• The literary and scientific renaissance that struck Germany around 1800 is usually taken to be the cradle of contemporary humanism. Posthumanism in th... Lees meer

Goethe's Families of the Heart

Susan E Gustafson

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in German Studies | nr. 15
• Throughout his literary work Goethe portrays characters who defy and reject 18th and 19th century ideals of aristocratic and civil families, notions o... Lees meer

From Kafka to Sebald

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in German Studies
• This volume is a response to a renewed interest in narrative form in contemporary literary studies, taking up the question of literary narratives and ... Lees meer

German Aesthetics

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in German Studies | nr. 16
• German Aesthetics provides English-speaking audiences with accessible explanations of fundamental concepts from the German tradition of philosophical ... Lees meer

Ambiguous Aggression in German Realism and Beyond Flirtation, Passive Aggression, Domestic Violence

Barbara N Nagel

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in German Studies | nr. 29
• Our main words defining emotional states suggest that we have clarity about them: expressions like "love," "hatred," "anxiety," or "sorrow" seem clear... Lees meer

Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in German Studies
• The literary and scientific renaissance that struck Germany around 1800 is usually taken to be the cradle of contemporary humanism. Posthumanism in th... Lees meer

Readings in the Anthropocene

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in German Studies | nr. 18
• Readings in the Anthropocene brings together scholars from German Studies and beyond to interpret the German tradition of the last two hundred years f... Lees meer

From Kafka to Sebald

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in German Studies | nr. 5
• This volume is a response to a renewed interest in narrative form in contemporary literary studies, taking up the question of literary narratives and ... Lees meer