Books in the Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture series

A history of Kantian and post-Kantian thought and of a foundational stage of German orientalism.

Key topics in important German medieval work surveyed and reassessed.

Essays in this volume rethink conventional ways of conceptualizing female authorship and re-examine the formal, aesthetic, and thematic terms in which German women's literature has been conceived.

A collection of essays -- early seminal works as well as freshinterpretations -- on the famous German expressionist film,Metropolis.

Explores the performative role of canonical literary works from the 1920s, providing a more nuanced understanding of high modernism and resituating it within literary history.

This first book-length study of fictional suicides in East German literature provides insight into the complex and dynamic rhetoric of the GDR and the literariness of its literature.

A European novel of racial mixing and "passing" in early twentieth-century America that serves as a unique account of transnational and transcultural racial attitudes that continue to reverberate today.

An extensive look at historical, literary, and media representations of '68 in Germany, challenging the way it has been instrumentalized.

A study of how Nanga Parbat, the ninth-highest peak on earth, became the German "mountain of the mind."

Examines the literature produced from the very beginnings of what became the GDR through the 1950s, redressing a tendency of literary scholarship to focus on the later GDR.

Employs research on the GDR's healthcare system along with feminist and queer theory to get at socialism's legacy, revealing a specifically East German literary convention: employment of "symptomatic female bodies" to either enforce or rebel against political and social norms.

Investigates the concept of transnationalism and its significance in and for German-language literature and culture.

An innovative, critical, historically informed, yet accessible reassessment of writers who remained in Nazi Germany and Austria yet expressed nonconformity - even dissent - through their fiction.

Provocative and spiced with humor, this book uses a cultural studies approach to examine the fraught relationship in German history between material reality and ideology.

A new critical assessment of the works of the Austrian-Jewish author, in whom there has been a recent resurgence of interest, from the perspective of world literature.

The first broad treatment of German genre fiction, containing innovative new essays on a variety of genres and foregrounding concerns of gender, environmentalism, and memory.

A comprehensive account of Goethe's relationship to Arabian culture, mediated by his interest in certain poets and texts and by his highly nuanced attitude toward Islam.

Captures the learning process of Nazi-era literary exiles following in the footsteps of legendary literary exemplars of exile.

German history films that focus on utopianism and political dissent and their effect on German identity since 1989.

The Differentiation of Modernism analyzes the phenomenon of intermediality in German radio plays, film music, and electronic music of the late modernist period (1945-1980).

The first book in English on the German Gothic in over thirty years, consisting of new essays investigating the internationality of the Gothic mode.

Examines the lure of mountains in German literature, philosophy, film, music, and culture from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century.

The first book that presents key original texts from the modern German philosophical tradition to English-language students and scholars of German, with introductions, commentaries, and annotations that make them accessible.