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Christa Wolf's Utopian Visionby Anna K. Kuhn
Cambridge University Press 1988; US$ 33.00This is a book-length chronological study in English of Christa Wolf's works. more...
Performing Brechtby Margaret Eddershaw
Routledge 1996; US$ 42.95An unprecedented history of the production of Brecht's plays in Britain over the last forty years. Eddershaw surveys all aspects of Brecht in performance, from his methodologies to his place in postmodernist theatre and beyond. more...
Hesse's Steppenwolf & Siddharthaby Carolyn R. Welch
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2001; US$ 4.95CliffsNotes on Hesse's Steppenwolf and Siddhartha includes introductions to both novels, lists of characters, critical analysis of the novels, and character analyses. more...
Kafka's The Trialby Herberth Czermak
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1999; US$ 5.99Kafka's books are filled with the blurring of reality and dreams. The "real" world is never enough for Kafka's characters, and they are always left yearning for a firm metaphysical anchor that they can never quite grasp. This book describes a man's persecution by an overwhelming power. more...
Und Sagte Kein Einziges Wortby Heinrich Boll
Routledge 1988; US$ 39.95Includes the full German text, accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context. more...
Companion to Twentieth-Century German Literatureby Raymond Furness; Malcolm Humble
Routledge 1997; US$ 42.95Containing entries on over four hundred authors of fiction, poetry and drama from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, this invaluable work of reference presents material of a range and depth that no other book on the subject in English attains. more...
Language of Silenceby Ernestine Schlant
Taylor & Francis 1999; US$ 35.95An analysis of West German literature as it tries to come to terms with the holocaust and its impact on post-war German society. more...
Rilke, Modernism and Poetic Traditionby Judith Ryan; H. B. Nisbet; Martin Swales; Theodore J. Ziolkowski
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...
Prague Territoriesby Scott Spector
University of California Press 2000; US$ 15.95Scott Spector's adventurous cultural history maps for the first time the "territories" carved out by German-Jewish intellectuals living in Prague at the dawn of the twentieth century. Spector explores the social, cultural, and ideological contexts in which Franz Kafka and his contemporaries flourished, revealing previously unseen relationships between politics and culture. more...
The German Tradition of Psychology in Literature and Thought, 1700-1840by Matthew Bell; H. B. Nisbet; Martin Swales; Theodore J. Ziolkowski
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 36.00The period from 1700 to 1840 produced some highly sophisticated psychological theorizing that became central to German intellectual and cultural life long before the commonly accepted start of psychology as a discipline in the late nineteenth century. Matthew Bell analyses expressions of psychological theory in Goethe, Kant, Schiller and others. more...









