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A User's Guide to German Cultural Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

A User's Guide to German Cultural Studies

  • Categories: Art

Capitalizes on the ripeness of the German case for interdisciplinary investigation

Visions of War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

Visions of War

Combatants' experiences of war changed radically during the Great War, yet combatant writers before and after the modern ordeal of total war show unexpected similarities in their representations of battle. By concentrating on the popular writings of Detlev von Liliencron, Walter Flex, August Stramm, and Ernst Junger, while situating these authors in the broad context of war literature in general between 1866 and 1933, this literary history shows how authors' literary expressions of their own combat experiences demonstrate varying degrees of aesthetic and ideological coherence. This study provides a much needed literary historical foundation for the many readings of Weimar-era war literature."

W. G. Sebald
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 389

W. G. Sebald

The novelist, poet, and essayist W. G. Sebald (1944 – 2001) was perhaps the most original German writer of the last decade of the 20th century (“Die Ausgewanderten”, “Austerlitz”, “Luftkrieg und Literatur”). His writing is marked by a unique ‘hybridity’ that combines characteristics of travelogue, cultural criticism, crime story, historical essay, and dream diary, among other genres. He employs layers of literary and motion picture allusions that contribute to a sometimes enigmatic, sometimes intimately familiar mood; his dominant mode is melancholy. The contributions of this anthology examine W. G. Sebald as narrator and pensive observer of history. The book includes a previously unpublished interview with Sebald from 1998.

W.G. Sebald
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

W.G. Sebald

The novelist, poet, and essayist W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) was perhaps the most original German writer of the last decade of the 20th century ("Die Ausgewanderten", "Austerlitz", "Luftkrieg und Literatur"). His writing is marked by a unique 'hybridity' that combines characteristics of travelogue, cultural criticism, crime story, historical essay, and dream diary, among other genres. He employs layers of literary and motion picture allusion that contribute to a sometimes enigmatic, sometimes intimately familiar mood; his dominant mode is melancholy. The contributions of this anthology examine W. G. Sebald as narrator and pensive observer of history. The book includes a previously unpublished interview with Sebald from 1998.

Northrop Frye on Literature and Society, 1936-1989
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 456

Northrop Frye on Literature and Society, 1936-1989

"This volume of essays, talks, reviews and papers span some fifty years of his long writing career." (Midwest)

Northrop Frye's Student Essays, 1932-1938
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 592

Northrop Frye's Student Essays, 1932-1938

This unique collection of twenty-two papers was written by Northrop Frye during his student years. Made public only after Frye's death in 1991, all but one of the essays are published here for the first time.

Northrop Frye's Late Notebooks, 1982-1990
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 486

Northrop Frye's Late Notebooks, 1982-1990

An inveterate notebook keeper, Northrop Frye continually jotted down his ideas and thoughts as he worked through the complex schemes of his criticism. Volumes 5 and 6 of the Collected Works are the notebooks that he kept while writing his two final books, "Words with Power" and "The Double Vision". They provide a record of what he was reading and thinking as he struggled with the implications of those projects. In a sense they are the workshops out of which the books were constructed. While focusing on the works-in-progress, the 3684 entries presented here range over diverse territory, never failing to surprise, delight, and provoke. In these notebooks, for instance, we find comments trigger...

Art, History, and Postwar Fiction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

Art, History, and Postwar Fiction

  • Categories: Art

Art, History, and Postwar Fiction explores the ways in which novelists responded to the visual arts from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present day. If art had long served as a foil to enable novelists to reflect on their craft, this book argues that in the postwar period, novelists turned to the visual arts to develop new ways of conceptualizing the relationship between literature and history. The sense that the novel was becalmed in the end of history was pervasive in the postwar decades. In seeming to bring modernism to a climax whilst repeating its foundational gestures, visual art also raised questions about the relationship between continuity and change in the development...

Civil Society and Dictatorship in Modern German History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 178

Civil Society and Dictatorship in Modern German History

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010
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  • Publisher: UPNE

"Brandeis University Press, Historical Society of Israel"

Transatlantic German Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 302

Transatlantic German Studies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-09-07
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  • Publisher: Camden House

The prominent scholar-contributors to this volume share their experiences developing the field of US German Studies and their thoughts on literature and interdisciplinarity, pluralism and diversity, and transatlantic dialogue.