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The Genocidal Gaze
Publication Date: November 2017
Her transnational analysis provides the groundwork for future studies of links between imperialism and genocide, links among genocides, and the devastating impact of the genocidal gaze.
The Politics of Magic
Publication Date: June 2015
Shen's study will be significant reading for teachers and students of folklore studies and for scholars of German, Eastern European, cultural, film, media, and gender studies.
Disability, Deformity, and Disease in the Grimms' Fairy Tales
Publication Date: November 2014
Readers interested in fairy-tales studies and disability studies will appreciate this careful reading of the Grimms' tales.
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.
History, Fiction, and Germany
Publication Date: September 2005
History, Fiction, and Germany provides a valuable resource for scholars and students of German studies, as well as anyone interested in history and the articulation of national identity.
About Face
Publication Date: March 2004
A rich exploration of German culture, About Face offers fresh insight into the intellectual climate that allowed the dangerous thinking of National Socialism to take hold.
Light Motives
Publication Date: May 2003
What emerges is a "Never-Ending Storyof oft-repeated obsessions, overlapping generic forms, omnipresent or subtle nods to Hollywood, and myriad political concerns irreducible to a unified message or aesthetic form—all bearing witness to the vibrancy of German culture.
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.
German Cinema
Publication Date: November 1995
German Cinema is the first English-language volume to provide a comprehensive historical overview of German film from the silent era to the present, as well as close readings of individual films.
Life Is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder
Publication Date: June 1989
Dundes is of the opinion that the use of folkloristic data minimizes subjective bias in the study of national character, since unedited or uncensored, it constitutes a unique way of looking at a culture from the inside-out rather than from the outside-in, the more typical situation of an outside observer...
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.
