Authors:Beth Bjorklund, Mark F. Cory,
Publisher: Camden House
Keywords: german, literature, studies, linguistics, culture, ryder, memory, essays, politics, frank
Number of Pages: 245
Published: 1998-06-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1571130829
ISBN-13: 9781571130822

The essays presented here invite reflection on a considerable sweep of German literature, with representation from the medieval period to the present day. A common focus on politics (appropriately a subject of deep concern to Professor Ryder) unites the articles, written from the perspective of American Germanists. European wars and revolutions, political divisions and attempts at unification, and periods of emancipation or persecution are viewed through the illuminating lens of literature; the tension between aesthetic and ideological goals, between the aims of literature and politics, inform

Author: Thomas Freema
Publisher: Camden House
Keywords: german, studies, literature, linguistics, culture, outsider, literary, hans, henny, jahnn, criticism, case
Number of Pages: 279
Published: 2001-08-15
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 1571132066
ISBN-13: 9781571132062

Hans Henny Jahnn (1894-1959) is one of Germany’s most controversial modern authors, in large part due to sharply diverging reactions to the depictions of sado-masochistic brutality, incest, and homoeroticism in his plays and novels. Jahnn’s rank as a writer has long been a topic of intense debate between rival schools of critics, and his works have provoked extreme responses, both positive and negative, from a wide spectrum of scholars, writers, and critics, including such prominent figures as Alfred Doeblin, Walter Benjamin, Thomas and Klaus Mann, Wolfgang Koeppen, Walter and Adol

Author: Dennis F. Mahoney
Publisher: Camden House
Keywords: literature, german, house, history, vol, romanticism, camden
Number of Pages: 429
Published: 2004-01-15
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 1571132368
ISBN-13: 9781571132369

This volume of sharply focused essays by an international team of scholars deals not only with the most significant literary, philosophical, and cultural aspects of German Romanticism -- one of the most influential, albeit highly controversial movements in the history of German literature -- but also with the history and status of scholarship on the literature of the period. The introduction and first section establish an overall framework by placing German Romanticism within a European context that includes its English counterpart. Goethe and Schiller are considered, as are the Jena Romantics

Author: Theo Herma
Publisher: Camden House
Keywords: countries, low, history, literary
Number of Pages: 746
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 1571132937
ISBN-13: 9781571132932

What was the written culture behind visual artists like Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Rubens? What made the historical novel in nineteenth-century Flanders so different from its counterpart in Holland? What was the literary impact of the huge colonial empires run by the Netherlands and Belgium? What role did Latin, French, and Frisian play in the literary culture of the Low Countries through the ages? Why is experimental writing so prevalent in modern Dutch literature? What has made Cees Nooteboom an internationally acclaimed author? And how does Flemish relate to Dutch anyway? This first literary h

Author: Reingard Nischik
Publisher: Camden House
Keywords: north, american, literature, culture, studies, european, atwood, works, impact, margaret
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2000-03-10
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 1571131396
ISBN-13: 9781571131393

Novelist, poet, cultural critic, Margaret Atwood is one of the mostfascinating, versatile, and productive authors of our time, a superb writer in any genre she chooses to tackle. This book was prepared on the occasion of Atwood’s sixtieth birthday in November 1999. Its first aim is therefore to take stock of Atwood’s multifarious works and international impact at the height of her creative powers. Secondly, the book serves as a wide-ranging introduction to the writer and her works. Fifteen informative articles written specifically for this volume by Atwood specialists from Canada,

Author: Daniel Purdy
Publisher: Camden House
Keywords: yearbook, goethe
Number of Pages: 282
Published: 2009-01-15
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 1571133968
ISBN-13: 9781571133960

The Goethe Yearbook, first published in 1982, is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America and is dedicated to North American Goethe Scholarship. It aims above all to encourage and publish original English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit, while also welcoming contributions from scholars around the world. Goethe Yearbook 16 presents innovative interpretations by young scholars of Goethe’s most prominent works. A special section on 20th-century theory, co-edited by Angus Nicholls, demonstrates the poet’s importance

Author: Mila Ganeva
Publisher: Camden House
Keywords: german, screen, cultures, film, visual, culture, women, fashion, discourses, displays, weimar
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-07-01
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 1571132058
ISBN-13: 9781571132055

In the Weimar Republic, fashion was not only manipulated by the various mass media -- film, magazines, advertising, photography, and popular literature -- but also emerged as a powerful medium for women’s self-expression. Female writers and journalists, including Helen Grund, Irmgard Keun, Vicki Baum, Elsa Maria Bug, and numerous others engaged in a challenging, self-reflective commentary on current styles. By regularly publishing on these topics in the illustrated press and popular literature, they transformed traditional genres and carved out significant public space for themselves. Th