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Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series

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1  In Babel's Shadow

In Babel's Shadow
Language, Philology, and the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Germany

By Tuska Benes
Published 2008
$54.95s (Cloth) - 9780814333044

A comprehensive cultural history of the language sciences in nineteenth-century Germany.

2  Aby Warburg and Anti-Semitism

Aby Warburg and Anti-Semitism
Political Perspectives on Images and Culture

By Charlotte Schoell-Glass
Translated by Samuel Willcocks
Published 2008
$54.95s (Cloth) - 9780814332559

A landmark study on Aby Warburg’s life and work, translated into English.

3  Disciplining Germany

Disciplining Germany
Youth, Reeducation, and Reconstruction after the Second World War

By Jaimey Fisher
Published 2007
$49.95s (Cloth) - 9780814333297

A look at how the discussions, debates, and controversies in Germany about youth and reeducation after World War II helped Germans come to terms with their Nazi past, negotiate Allied occupation, and construct postwar German identity.

4  After Images

After Images
Photography, Archaeology, and Psychoanalysis and the Tradition of Bildung

By Eric Downing
Published 2006
$54.95s (Cloth) - 9780814333013

Examining literature and cultural theory of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this volume considers connections between photography, archaeology, and psychoanalysis and their effects on conceptions of the self and Bildung.

5  The Spell of Italy

The Spell of Italy
Vacation, Magic, and the Attraction of Goethe

By Richard Block
Published 2006
$54.95s (Cloth) - 9780814332696

A study of the lure of Italy in German culture from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.

6  Time’s Visible Surface

Time’s Visible Surface
Alois Riegl and the Discourse on History and Temporality in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna

By Michael Gubser
Published 2006
$54.95s (Cloth) - 9780814332085

Expands our understanding of Alois Riegl beyond his role as an art historian to a pivotal figure in cultural theory at large, while placing his interest in history and time within the intellectual world of fin-de-siècle Vienna.

7  Fabricating Pleasure

Fabricating Pleasure
Fashion, Entertainment, and Cultural Consumption in Germany, 1780-1830

By Karin Wurst
Published 2005
$59.95s (Cloth) - 9780814331316

Traces how the German middle class created a unique form of domestic culture that fused consumption with high culture in fashionable forms of entertainment.

8  History, Fiction, and Germany

History, Fiction, and Germany
Writing the Nineteenth-Century Nation

By Brent O. Peterson
Published 2005
$54.95s (Cloth) - 9780814332009

A study of the content, development, and transmission of German identity during the nineteenth century as Germany’s national narrative took shape in historical fiction and in both popular and academic history.

9  Foreign Words

Foreign Words
Translator-Authors in the Age of Goethe

By Susan Bernofsky
Published 2005
$49.95s (Cloth) - 9780814332221

A new perspective on the principal developments in translation practice and theory in Germany during the Age of Goethe with emphasis on the work of Goethe, Hölderlin, and Kleist as translators.

10  Words from Abroad

Words from Abroad
Trauma and Displacement in Postwar German Jewish Writers

By Katja Garloff
Published 2005
$49.95s (Cloth) - 9780814332450

Examines the responses of German Jewish writers to the geographical and cultural displacement that is one of the lasting consequences of the Holocaust.

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