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

A collection of essays offering a nuanced understanding of the complex question of identity in today's Germany.

A study of the breakthrough of the Germanic vernacular dialects into the realm of written language between the eighth and tenth centuries.

Explores the central theme of Romantic poetry in the works of the most important German Romantic poet of all.

A fresh look at the critical reception of Schiller's early dramas such as The Robbers and Don Carlos.

Collection of sixteen German novellas from the 17th to the 20th century in the original language, showing the wide range of the genre, and fully glossed.

Translation of nineteenth-century novel of life in a still-feudal Moravian village.

Presents a kind of contact with the unseen world. This title attempts to understand that world in its holistic relationship to the visible, tangible world.

Wide-ranging essays making up the first major study of Nietzsche and the classical tradition in a quarter of a century.

Analysis of the novellas of the German Romantic writer and composer, focusing on the issues of art and the artist.

Sixteen new, carefully focused essays on the prose works of one of the great writers of modernity.

Discussion of Thomas Mann's fiction (particularly Doctor Faustus), his preoccupation with redemption, and the connection in his work between myth and music.

First English translation of the famous German novel about a woman's struggle against Victorian social conventions, now in paperback for classroom use.

A concise general history of German literature from the early middle ages to the beginning of the 20th century.

New essays examining the complex period of rich artistic ferment that was German literary Expressionism.

The first book to consider together the responses of the great Austrian writers Musil, Roth, and Bachmann to the crisis of modernity.

Examines literary, philosophical, and cultural influences on Mahler's thought and work from the standpoint of the composer's position in German-Jewish culture.

Views adaptations as a way in which Germany seeks to come to terms with its past.

A comprehensive survey of German literary writers' political writing and involvement since 1945.

A new analysis of one of the most loaded terms in the German language: Heimat, or Homeland.

New, specially commissioned essays providing an in-depth scholarly introduction to the great thinker of the European Enlightenment.

A collection of essays examining the influence of Kant on Heinrich von Kleist.

A study of the enormous influence of the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche on turn-of-the-century German literature.

A unique historical and literary document of lives dislocated by the collapse of East Germany.

Studies of one of the foremost 20c Austrian writers, as a critic and as a novelist and dramatist.

Essays on the synthesis of the musical and literary arts in German Romanticism.

The employment of the hotel as a setting for literary works of the period and the cultural reasons behind it.

A genuinely accessible introduction to Freud's theory and its application to literary and cultural studies.

Shows Goethe, the most famous of German writers, as a child of the Enlightenment.

A long-overdue study of the East German view of the Holocaust over the years 1946-1989.