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Hölderlin
Publication Date: January 2017
Hölderlin, "the poet of poets,is presented at work and in his works as the instrument of conviviality binding mortal to mortal and mortal to divine.
In Babel's Shadow
Publication Date: August 2008
Cultural and intellectual historians, scholars of German language and literature, and linguists will enjoy this illuminating volume.
Disciplining Germany
Publication Date: June 2007
With these interdisciplinary approaches and timely interventions, Disciplining Germany will find a diverse readership, including upper-division and graduate courses in German studies and German history as well as those general readers interested in Nazi Germany, cultural history, film and literary studies, youth culture, American studies, and post-conflict and occupational situations.
After Images
Publication Date: August 2006
Scholars, students, and teachers of German studies, comparative literature, cultural studies, and classical studies will appreciate this insightful volume.
The Spell of Italy
Publication Date: March 2006
Building on previous work on Goethe, literary theory, and cultural history, The Spell of Italy offers compelling new ways of understanding Germany’s fascination with Italy from the eighteenth century to its troubled political history of the twentieth century.
Looking Within/Mirar Adentro
Publication Date: December 2002
One can find in her work the tensions between colonizer and colonized, dominator and dominated, and at the same time enjoy the sheer beauty of images depicting suffering, strength, and hope.
Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography
Publication Date: April 2002
Readers interested in modem German literature and culture, literary and cultural theory, comparative literature, Weimar culture, and fascism will welcome this book.
The Myth of Power and the Self
Publication Date: February 2002
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.
Peripheral Visions
Publication Date: July 2001
With references that range from set architecture to Christmas celebrations, from the poetry of Rilke to chamber music, from the introduction of sound to Macy’s parades, and from an "urban unconsciousto a "cinematic sublime,Peripheral Visions is a richly nuanced collection that will be of lasting interest to students and scholars...
Walter Benjamin
Publication Date: June 1997
The German edition, titled Walter Benjamin: Einfiihrung in Leben und Werk, was published in 1985.
Italian Folktales in America
Publication Date: October 1988
The result is a work that greatly enriches our understanding of who told (and tells) märchen to whom, why and how they are told, and, perhaps most important, under what conditions.
The Song of the Nibelungs
Publication Date: January 1962
This modern translation, with its naturalness of language, will appeal to the general reader and scholar alike.
