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

New and insightful interpretations of the controversial stories of Heinrich von Kleist.

The first study to propose a unifying logic underlying the many and varied representations of the vampire in literature and culture.

Critical study of Grimmelshausen's `Simplician' novels.

A fascinating look at Nazi Germany as revealed in its films.

Illuminates the major aspects of the works of Germany's greatest 20th-century poet.

A reassessment of genre that fills a major gap in Goethe's oeuvre and initiates a radically new reading of Faust.

At last an engaging and highly readable guide to the works and significance of Goethe.

Up-to-date criticism and commentary on the greatest of the German courtly epics.

The first book-length study of Hoelderlin's postwar reception and a case study of Germanistik.

Expands the definition of second-generation literature to include texts written from the point of view of the children of Nazi perpetrators.

Explores how contemporary novels dealing with flight and expulsion after the Second World War unsettle traditional notions of Heimat without abandoning place-based notions of belonging.

An investigation of the considerable influence of Wagner's stay in Zurich from 1849 to 1858 -- a period often discounted by scholars -- on his career.

Cutting-edge criticism on major aspects of Goethe's best-known work.

A study of Mann's novel tetralogy of the 1930s that stresses its relationship to three key essays by Mann.

The first book to examine Goethe's writings on the daemonic in relation to both Classical philosophy and German Idealism.

New essays by leading scholars on the most perplexing of modern writers, Franz Kafka.

The first major study of the neglected fiction works of the well-known revolutionary politician Kurt Eisner.

A new evaluation of one of the most significant Holocaust poets, Nelly Sachs (1891-1970), offering the first sustained critical analysis of Sachs's largely unanalyzed pre-war poetry and prose.

New essays examining Goethe's relationship to the Jews, and the contribution of Jewish scholars to the fame of the greatest German writer.

This work studies in detail a heretofore much neglected aned aspect of German literature.

A new translation of Rilke's groundbreaking volume, following the formal properties of the original poems, especially meter and rhyme, as closely as English allows.

Drawing upon the most current methodologies, the essays in this book pursue the multifarious functions of end-times in medieval German texts.

Poems by and biographies of inmates of the Dachau Concentration Camp, testimonies to the persistence of the humanity and creativity of the individual in the face of extreme suffering.

First treatment of a conspicuously East German feature in today's German literature, that of autobiographical writing -- and rewriting.

Comprehensive view of Andreas-Salome's fictional works, focusing on her depictions of women and questions of narrative and identity.

The first comprehensive study in English of Schmidt's famous and controversial novel.

An advanced introduction for students and a re-orientation for Nietzsche scholars and intellectual historians on the development of his thought and the aesthetic construction of his identity as a philosopher.