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  • The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilkeby Rainer Maria Rilke; Stephen Mitchell; Stephen Mitchell; Robert Hass

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 15.95

    "This miracle of a book, perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has ever produced," (Chicago Tribune) should stand as the definitive English language version. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...

  • Robert Musil's 'The Man Without Qualities'by Philip Payne

    Cambridge University Press 1988; US$ 34.00

    This, the first comprehensive study of The Man Without Qualities, guides the reader towards Musil's central concerns. more...

  • Performing Brechtby Margaret Eddershaw

    Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 45.95

    Performing Brecht is an unprecedented history of the productions of Brecht's plays in Britain over forty years. Margaret Eddershaw surveys all aspects of Brecht in performance, from his methodologies to his place in postmodernist theatre and beyond. She focuses on key productions by directors including George Devine, Sam Wanamaker, William Gaskill,... more...

  • Wer kauft Liebesgötter?by Dietrich Gerhardt

    De Gruyter 2008; US$ 105.00

    Dietrich Gerhardt takes as his starting point Goethe?s poem Love Gods in the Market-place that was published in Voss? Muses Almanach in 1796 and later became known under the title Who will buy Gods of Love?, to trace the modern transformations undergone in the pictorial arts, literature and music by the late antique motif of love gods. The study moves... more...

  • The Robbersby Friedrich Schiller

    The Floating Press 2011; US$ 3.99

    Fans of classic European melodrama will love The Robbers. Originally staged in the late eighteenth century, this play -- which follows the feud between brothers in an aristocratic German family -- was a blockbuster success that propelled Friedrich Schiller to the height of literary fame. The Robbers was later adapted into an equally renowned opera... more...

  • Mary Stuartby Fredrich Schiller

    The Floating Press 2010; US$ 3.99

    This work details the dramatic final days of Mary, Queen of Scots. The action opens with Mary's unjust imprisonment and ends with her execution, which is ultimately ordered by Mary's morally conflicted cousin, Queen Elizabeth of England. Schiller's play is widely regarded as one of the finest literary distillations of these controversial... more...

  • Poems of Rainer Maria Rilkeby Ranier Maria Rilke; Jessie Lamont

    The Floating Press 2012; US$ 3.99

    Considered one of most significant literary figures of his era, Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke served as a bridge between the themes and styles of the Romantic period and the concerns and anxieties that would give rise to modernism in the twentieth century. This collection brings together dozens of Rilke's most popular and critically acclaimed... more...

  • Wissen - Erzählen - Traditionby Lothar Laak; Walter Erhart

    De Gruyter 2010; US$ 168.00

    This book shows Christoph Martin Wieland?s independent position in the literature and culture of around 1800 in a new way: Wieland?s work describes a significant knowledge transfer between the Early Modern Age and the Modern Age. This is achieved by a double reference to the knowledge base of the Enlightenment on the one hand and to the philosophical... more...

  • Einführung in das Nibelungenliedby Nine Miedema

    WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2012; US$ 12.94

    Hauptbeschreibung Diese gelungene Einführung ermöglicht endlich ein umfassendes Verständnis des Nibelungenliedes. Sie bietet zum Einstieg eine kompakte Beschreibung der wesentlichen Inhalte und Personen und verortet das Werk in seiner Epoche. Anschließend werden die zentralen Fragen nach Autor, Überlieferung und Werkform beantwortet. Damit ist die... more...

  • Einführung in das Werk Walthers von der Vogelweideby Otfrid Ehrismann

    WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2012; US$ 12.94

    Hauptbeschreibung Walther von der Vogelweide gehört zu den herausragenden Autoren des Mittelalters. Seine Minnelieder und Sangsprüche sind ein unverzichtbarer Bestandteil unseres kulturellen Erbes und bis heute grundlegend für jede Auseinandersetzung mit mittelhochdeutscher Sprache und Literatur. Otfried Ehrismann führt übersichtlich, kompakt und... more...