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Schaubühne, Band 1
De Gruyter 1840; US$ 133.00Arnim, Achim; Grimm, Wilhelm: Ludwig Achim's Von Arnim Sämmtliche Werke: Schaubühne, Band 1: Band 5 more...
Von der Antike bis zum Barock
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 210.00Because of its particular bracketing of image and text, visual poetry has been accompanied by the formulation of theories from its very beginnings. Reflections on visuality can be found back in antique scholia, commentaries of medieval authors and baroque poetics, while in modern times documents can be found for example in the manifestos of the avant-garde... more...
Understanding Children's Literature
Taylor and Francis 1998; US$ 35.95This book offers a systematic introduction to some of the essential concepts necessary for the study of childrens literature. Incorporating thirteen essays from the highly-acclaimed International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature , the chapters guide the reader through the most relevant areas of criticism and theory and summarise their... more...
Halm - Hauptmann
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 363.00The Dictionary of German Literature. The 20th Century contains authors writing in German whose main work was created in the 20th century. Volume 14 includes articles on Käte Hamburger, Peter Handke, Maximilian Harden and Ludwig Harig. In line with the Dictionary's orientation, there are also entries on numerous well-known representatives of their disciplines,... more...
Jahrbuch der Raabe-Gesellschaft
Walter de Gruyter 2011; US$ 82.00Das 1960 gegründete Jahrbuch der Raabe-Gesellschaft bildet nicht nur ein Forum der fachwissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung mit dem ungewöhnlich umfangreichen Erzählwerk Wilhelm Raabes (1831?1910), sondern hat sich über die Jahre hinweg auch zu einem Organ der allgemeinen germanistischen Realismusforschung entwickelt. Jeder Jahrgang enthält Aufsätze... more...
Don'ts for Mothers
A&C Black 2011; US$ 3.89Following the success of Don'ts for Husbands and Don'ts for Wives a brand new old collection of advice: - from Birth to Weaning - the care of Young Children - Boyhood and Girlhood "Don't wash the baby in hot water, it would weaken and enervate the babe, and thus predispose him to disease. Luke warm rain water will be the best to wash... more...
Making the White Man's Indian
ABC-CLIO 2005; US$ 66.00The image in Hollywood movies of savage Indians attacking white settlers represents only one side of a very complicated picture. In fact sympathetic portrayals of Native Americans stood alongside those of hostile Indians in the silent films of D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille, and flourished during the early 1930s with Hollywood's cycle of pro-Indian... more...
Reel Black Talk
ABC-CLIO 1997; US$ 182.00As evidenced in interviews included in this volume, many African American filmmakers consider themselves artists first, their ethnicity being only part of what influences their work. This is the first book by an African American on contemporary African American filmmakers. Here directors and producers speak for themselves, posing challenges to current... more...
Taking Liberties
ABC-CLIO 2002; US$ 125.00Unlike its British forebears, the early American magazine, or periodical miscellany, functioned in culture as a forum driven by manifold contributions and perpetuated by reader response. Arising in colonial Philadelphia, America's more democratic magazine sustained a range of conflicting ideas, norms, and beliefs?indeed, it promoted their very exchange.... more...









