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Henrik Ibsen
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 49.95This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set complements the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995. more...
Deutschsprachige Literatur(en) seit 1989
Erich Schmidt Verlag 2012; US$ 86.06Hauptbeschreibung Zwei Jahrzehnte nach dem Ende der deutsch-deutschen Teilung scheint es an der Zeit, sich der/den deutschsprachigen Literatur/en seit 1989 allgemeiner und grundsätzlicher zuzuwenden. Das vorliegende Sonderheft der ZfdPh richtet den Blick auf die Entwicklungen und Transformationen dieser neuesten Literaturepoche in statu nascendi;... more...
Der öffentliche Vater
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 140.00From the time it emerged in the 18th century until its collapse in the 20th century, the model of the bourgeois father held a central place in politics and literature. For the first time, the present study systematically examines the history of this construct with a focus on the interplay between the mechanisms of paternal authority and the emotionalization... more...
Positionen der Germanistik in der DDR
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 140.00This collected volume contains chapters on different generations of scholars and various academic institutions (universities, Academy of Sciences, National Research and Memorial Sites of Classical German Literature in Weimar, German Studies abroad). Differentiated revisions of research achievements in linguistic and literary studies and in the teaching... more...
A Doll's House
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 45.00I think I'm a human being before anything else. I don't care what other people say. I don't care what people write in books. I need to think for myself.' Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House premiered in 1879 in Copenhagen, the second in a series of realist plays by Ibsen, and immediately provoked controversy with its apparently feminist... more...
Lyrik (Minnesang - Sangspruch - Meistergesang) und Dramatik
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 377.00Volume 4 contains articles on all secular lyric forms of medieval literature, from the beginnings in 12th century up to the late forms of Meistergesang. References illuminate the lyric forms in the religious writings in volumes 1 and 2. The emerging dramatic forms of medieval literature are also covered, including numerous references to the religious... more...
Global Ibsen
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 138.00Ibsen?s plays rank among those most frequently performed world-wide, rivaled only by Brecht, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and the Greek tragedies. By the time Ibsen died in 1906, his plays had already conquered the theaters of the Western world. Inviting rapturous praise as well as fierce controversy, they were performed in Europe, North America, and Australia,... more...
Fabeln, Mären, Schwänke und Legenden im Mittelalter
WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2012; US$ 12.94Hauptbeschreibung Fabeln, Mären, Schwänke und Legenden gehörten in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit zu den beliebtesten Erzählformaten überhaupt. Es handelt sich dabei um kurze Texte, die ihr Publikum unterhalten, belehren oder erbauen wollten und deshalb auch heute noch einen verlässlichen Einblick in die zeitgenössische Kultur- und Mentalitätsgeschichte... more...
The Nobel Novelist Knut Hamsun During the Nazi Occupation of Norway
The Edwin Mellen Press 2011; US$ 169.95This is Marie Hamsun's personal narrative from the years 1940-1952, i.e. from the invasion and occupation of Norway until the death of Knut Hamsun. She illuminates personal, psychological, and political facets of Knut Hamsun's character and traces the roots of his deep-seated Germanophilia and Anglophobia, respectively. Her insights are based... more...
The Lady from the Sea
A&C Black 2010; US$ 12.99David Eldridges new version of Ibsens classic play, published to coincide with the production at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. When the lighthouse keepers daughter Ellida meets the widower Dr Wangel, she tries to put her long-lost first love far behind her and begin a new life as a wife and stepmother. But the tide is turning,... more...









