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German Studies
German Studies Series: Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series
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Fabricating Pleasure
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History, Fiction, and Germany
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Foreign Words
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Words from Abroad
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In the Company of Men
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Fabricating Pleasure Traces how the German middle class created a unique form of domestic culture that fused consumption with high culture in fashionable forms of entertainment. |
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History, Fiction, and Germany 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. |
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Foreign Words 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. |
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Words from Abroad 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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In the Company of Men In the Company of Men examines the motif of cross-dressing in eighteenth-century German literature and culture to gain a deeper understanding of concepts of body, gender, and identity. |
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About Face A critical history of physiognomic thought in German-speaking Europe that traces the roots of twentieth-century racial profiling to the Enlightenment. |
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Sublime Failures A provocative look at the problem of agency in cultural studies theory, based on a discussion of Kant and Sade that reexamines the principle of nonviolence. |
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Men Desiring Men At what point in history did a "homosexual identity" begin to emerge? Many cultural historians have agreed with Foucault that the late 19th century witnessed its birth. |
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The Myth of Power and the Self This superb collection of essays by one of the most qualified Kafka scholars today will bring new understanding to Kafka's work and will be of interest to literary critics, intellectual historians, and students and scholars of German literature and Kafka. |
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The Survival of Images In The Survival of Images, Louis Rose offers an engaging exploration of these changes as they occurred in three key areas of inquiry at the turn of the century: art history, classics, and the emerging field of psychoanalysis. |
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