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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...
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...
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...
The Poet's Guide to Life
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 19.95?You have to live life to the limit, not according to each day but by plumbing its depth.? ?RAINER MARIA RILKE In this treasury of uncommon wisdom and spiritual insight, the best writings and personal philosophies of one of the twentieth century?s greatest poets, Rainer Maria Rilke, are gleaned by Ulrich Baer from thousands of pages of never-before... more...
Round Dance and Other Plays
Oxford University Press, UK 2004; US$ 8.99This is a unique collection of seven of Schnitzler's best known plays in a new English translation. They explore love, sexuality, and death in various guises, against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century Viennese decadence. The introduction explores the plays in relation to Schnitzler's life, to the culture of late twentieth-century Vienna,... more...
Der Kaufmann von Berlin
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 98.00Mehring?s drama, first staged by Erwin Piscator in 1929, caused the biggest theatre scandal of the Weimar Republic. It portrayed a diverse picture of the city of Berlin ? from the stock exchange to the ?Scheunenviertel? ? and a socio-political cross section through the German population after the First World War. The text, which also illustrates the... more...
Franz Kafka
Infobase Publishing 2005; US$ 42.00One of the most influential writers of this century, Kafka's work, most notably 'The Metamorphosis', 'The Castle', and 'The Trial', did not gain widespread recognition until after his death. Ages 15+. more...
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka, New Edition
Infobase Publishing 2008; US$ 54.00Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis climaxes in the very first line-the protagonist has indeed been transformed. The critical questions lie in the interpretation of the change. Kafka has been said to have offered everything from a psychological parable of the Oedipal struggle to a caricature of psychological readings. In this collection of new critical... more...
Ernst Wiechert im Gespräch
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 126.00The East Prussian (Masurian) author Ernst Wiechert (1887?1950), whose opposition against injustice and terror resulted in his internment in a concentration camp in 1938, is well-known as the author of ?Der Totenwald? [Forest of the Dead], an account of conditions in Buchenwald. He was one of the most popular novelists in the 20th century, and his books... more...
Don Juan kommt aus dem Krieg
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 419.00Ödön von Horváth (1901-1938) ist einer der meistbeachteten Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die Wiener Ausgabe bietet eine kritische Gesamtedition seines Werkes, wie sie von der Forschung seit langem gefordert wird. Ediert werden alle abgeschlossenen und Fragment gebliebenen Werke sowie sämtliche Briefe und Lebensdokumente des Autors.... more...









