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Was kann und darf Kunst?
Campus Verlag 2013; US$ 25.34Hauptbeschreibung Immer wieder gibt es Skandale um Kunst, wenn sie ästhetische und moralische Grenzen überschreitet. Schnell stellen sich dann die Fragen: Wozu Kunst? Was darf Kunst? Eine Ethik der Kunst als Teilbereich der Philosophie oder der Angewandten Ethik gibt es bislang jedoch noch nicht. Dagmar Fenner fragt nach der ethischen Dimension von... more...
Rilke, Modernism and Poetic Tradition
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 40.00Judith Ryan traces Rilke's development from aestheticism to modernism, paying special attention to the way his work engages with other poetry and visual arts. Rilke is now the most widely-read and influential German-language poet, and this study is full of new discoveries about his innovative and often profoundly moving poems. more...
Women Writers and National Identity
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 32.00Stephanie Bird offers a detailed analysis of the twin themes of female identity and national identity in the works of three major twentieth-century German-language women writers: Ingeborg Bachmann, Anne Duden and Emine Özdamar. This book will be of interest to literary and women's studies scholars as well as Germanists. more...
Im Westen Nichts Neues
Taylor and Francis 1984; US$ 41.95The full German text of Remarque's 1929 novel is accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context. more...
Gedichte
Springer 2006; US$ 59.95Jacob Bach formt seine Gedichte in den Ländern dieser Erde, die er liebt und geschützt wissen möchte. Seine Gedichte sind leidenschaftliche Appelle für die Würde und die Freiheit des Menschen, für die Schönheit der Liebe und das Zusammenleben, gegen die Vereinzelung und Vereinsamung. Er wehrt sich gegen die Versklavung und die Anpassung der Menschen... more...
Gedichte
Springer 2006; US$ 59.95Jacob Bach formt seine Gedichte in den Ländern dieser Erde, die er liebt und geschützt wissen möchte. Seine Gedichte sind leidenschaftliche Appelle für die Würde und die Freiheit des Menschen, für die Schönheit der Liebe und das Zusammenleben, gegen die Vereinzelung und Vereinsamung. Er wehrt sich gegen die Versklavung und die Anpassung der Menschen... more...
Brecht in L. A.
Intellect 2002; US$ 10.00Bertolt Brecht, perhaps the most important dramatist/director/theorist of the twentieth century, is still widely studied and his plays and theories remain staples in the curricula of university theatre departments, literature departments, and theatre-artist training programs throughout the world. Additionally, productions of Brecht's dramas continue... more...
Reading Heinrich Heine
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 35.00The most comprehensive study of the nineteenth-century German poet to be published in English for many years. more...
Romantic Vision, Ethical Context
University of Minnesota Press 1987; US$ 67.50Exploring the full range of Novalis's (the pen name of the German poet and philosopher Friedrich von Hardenberg) work, von Molnar shows how he dealt, in theory and practice, with a central issue in Romanticism?the emerging concept of the autonomous self and its relation. more...
Titurel
De Gruyter 2002; US$ 252.00'Titurel', a later offshoot of Wolfram von Eschenbach's 'Parzival', can be seen as one of the most enigmatic works in the history of German literature. With its highly complex form, the darkness of its language and imagery, and its fragmentary character, it is one of the most fascinating linguistic creations of the Middle Ages. This new edition, with... more...









