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Stories and Tales
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 19.95A true classic of Western literature, Stories and Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, arguably the most notable children's writer of all, has delighted young and old for generations. This unique collection was first translated for George Routledge over 130 years ago. Completely reset, but preserving the original, beautiful illustrations by A.W. Bayes,... more...
The True Story of My Life
The Floating Press 2008; US$ 8.95From the translator: No literary labor is more delightful to me than translating the beautiful thoughts and fancies of Hans Christian Andersen. My heart is in the work, and I feel as if my spirit were kindred to his; just as our Saxon English seems to me eminently fitted to give the simple, pure, and noble sentiments of the Danish mind. This True Story... more...
Existenz und Reflexion: Aktuelle Aspekte der Kierkegaard-Rezeption
Diplomica Verlag 2012; US$ 43.13Hauptbeschreibung "Sören Kierkegaard: Das ist eine Literatur in der Literatur", schrieb Georg Brandes. Für den Philosophen aus Kopenhagen war Schreiben nicht nur eine Form der Beschäftigung, sondern eine Lebensweise, eine Form der Existenz. Unter wechselnden Pseudonymen spielt Kierkegaard in Texten, die aufeinander verweisen oder ineinander verschachtelt... more...
Germans Going Global
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 126.00This study examines the impact of globalization on Germany?s literary field. It investigates how German-language writers born between 1955 and 1975 respond to the pressures of globalizing factors, and how these influence notions of authorship. The literary marketplace, constructions of authorship, and fictional texts from the late 1990s through the... more...
Familie - Ich - Nation
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2010; US$ 30.09Hauptbeschreibung Der Familie wird in unserer Gesellschaft als kleinste soziale Einheit große Bedeutung für die Biographie des Einzelnen zugeschrieben. Sich dieser Familie und ihrer Geschichte im Erzählen zu vergewissern, kann Sinn stiften. Familiengeschichten können das Zugehörigkeitsgefühl und den Lebensmut stärken, selbst wenn sie von Brüchen... more...
Give Up: Life's an Adventure for Most... a Concussion for You.
Ulysses Press 2010; US$ 14.95Do sugar-coated lies and cliché photos actually motivate you to do better? Of course not! If you want to get ahead in life, you need to know how things really work. You need posters that reveal the cold, hard truth. You need to be demotivated. By offering demotivational messages accompanied by ridiculous images, the author turns the motivational... more...
Deutschsprachige Romane der klassischen Moderne
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 168.00The volume is a collection of contributions by renowned literary scientists on selected German-language novels from the Classical Modern Age (ca. 1890-1933). Each text is introduced individually according to a set scheme and classified within the cultural-historical context of the Classic Modern Age. Emphasis is placed on current approaches to interpretation,... more...
House Inspections
BOA Editions Ltd. 2011; US$ 16.00The Paris Review has published a dozen poems from this leading Danish poet's surreal, harrowing prose poetry collection. more...
Visionen dichterischen 'Mündigwerdens'
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 91.00This study examines classic modern texts ? elements of a 'visionary' poetology ?, which on the one hand connect with an idealistic poetics of memory, and on the other create a new tradition. Rilke's and Benjamin's poetics of memory together with Musil's critique of cognition in its essayistic and poetic formulations are also viewed in the light of... more...
Einführung in die Literatur der Neuen Sachlichkeit
WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2012; US$ 12.94Hauptbeschreibung Die Literatur der Neuen Sachlichkeit konzentrierte sich auf die Wiedergabe des Faktischen, den Gebrauchs- und Unterhaltungswert der Texte. Viele der zwischen 1925 und 1933 entstandenen Werke geben noch heute einen interessanten Einblick in die politischen, sozialen und kulturellen Konflikte der Weimarer Republik. Diese Einführung... more...









