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

The first English scholarly edition of Schiller's pivotal essay, accompanied by the first comprehensive commentary on it.

Death still comes to Everyman, but this study of three twentieth-century German plays shows the harder challenge of living without salvation in an age of war and unprecedented mass destruction.

This study investigates six German Jewish writers' negotiation of Jewish-German-Communist identity in post-Holocaust East Germany.

The first study to utilize the Klagenfurt Edition of Musil's Nachlass offers a close reading of textual variations, emphasizing Musil's commitment to the artist's role in re-creating the world.

A historical survey of German films as works of art from the beginnings to the present, suitable for classroom use.

Takes the recent wave of German autobiographical writing on illness and disability seriously as literature, demonstrating the value of a literary disability studies approach.

This collection reflects on the development of disability studies in German-speaking Europe and brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on disability in German, Austrian, and Swiss history and culture.

Explores the storytelling of Anna Seghers and other 20th-century writers who faced the tensions between aesthetics and politically conscious writing, between conformity and resistance.

Study of the critical reception of one of the most famous and widely read works of modern literature.

Kafka's interest in and use of China establish him as a principal commentator in Western discourse on the Orient.

Proceedings of the Brandeis conference on Jewish Germanists who fled Nazi Germany and their impact on Anglo-American German studies.

A analysis of recent German novelistic treatments of the effect of the Nazi past on the relationships between parents and children.

The first comprehensive study in English of the life and works of the important postwar dramatist and short-story writer.