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Mother Courage & The Caucasian Chalk Circleby Denis M. Calandra
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1999; US$ 1.95Using strong metaphors as a way to create a clear anti-illusionistic atmosphere, Brecht's works highlight humans' eternal grappling with their environment to get ahead in the world; nowhere is this more evident in Mother Courage and The Caucasian Chalk Circle . more...
All Quiet on the Western Frontby E.M. Remarque
Taylor & Francis 1984; 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...
All's Quiet on the Western Frontby Harold Bloom
Infobase Publishing 2008; US$ 36.00Traces the evolution of one man's powerful antiwar sentiments. This title includes an annotated bibliography and a listing of other works by the author. more...
The Great War and Modern Memoryby Paul Fussell
Oxford University Press, USA 2000; US$ 13.45The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books. Fussell's landmark study of WWI remains as original and gripping today as ever before: a literate, literary, and illuminating account of the Great War, the one that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, and revolutionized how we see the world. Exploring the work of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden, David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen, Fussell supplies contexts, both actual and literary, for those writers who most effectively... more...
Don Carlos and Mary Stuartby J. C. F. von Schiller; Hilary Collier Sy-Quia; Peter Oswald
Oxford University Press, UK 1996; US$ 8.95Don Carlos and Mary Stuart, two of German literature's greatest dramas, deal with the timeless issues of power, freedom, and justice.These new translations into blank verse are accurate, elegant, and playable. The introduction, notes, and chronology set the plays in their cultural and intellectual background, while a family tree explains the historical relationship between Don Carlos and Mary Stuart. - ;Don Carlos and Mary Stuart, two of German literature's greatest dramas, deal with the timeless issues of power, freedom, and justice.Dating from 1787 and 1800 respectively, one play was written before the French Revolution, the other in its aftermath. Both dramatize periods of crisis in sixteenth-century Europe, and in doing so reflect... 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...
Henrik Ibsenby Michael Egan
Routledge 1997; US$ 360.00Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906). Norwegian dramatist, generally acknowledged as the founder of modern prose drama. Writings include: A Doll's House, Ghosts, Rosmersholm . Volume covers period 1872-1906. more...
Medieval German Literatureby Marion Gibbs; Sidney M. Johnson
Routledge 2000; US$ 41.95This comprehensive survey examines Germanic literature from the eighth century to the early fifteenth century. The authors treat the large body of late-medieval lyric poetry in detail for the first time. 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...
Remargue's All Quiet on the Western Front by Susan Van Kirk
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2001; US$ 5.99This war novel is actually an anti-war novel, tracing the lives and losses of a young group of soldiers caught in the brutality of World War I. Gripping, realistic, and searing with a vision inconsistent with post-war German character, this book caused Remarque to receive death threats and to leave Germany to live and work in Hollywood. This concise supplement to Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front helps students understand the overall structure of the novel, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and cultural perspectives of the author. more...