Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies
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Time's Visible Surface
Publication Date: January 2006
By expanding our understanding of Riegl and his intellectual context, Time’s Visible Surface demonstrates that Riegl is a pivotal figure in cultural theory and that fin-de-siècle Vienna holds continued relevance for today’s cultural and philosophical debates.
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.
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.
Words from Abroad
Publication Date: September 2005
Words from Abroad is an important tool in investigating the works of these German Jewish writers and thinkers, but it is a contribution to the interdisciplinary scholarship on trauma and displacement itself.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
Aby Warburg and Anti-Semitism
Publication Date: March 2008
Art historians, German historians, and scholars of Jewish studies and cultural studies will be grateful for this volume.
Fabricating Pleasure
Publication Date: September 2005
From art and music to fashion and travel, Wurst places these popular forms of entertainment and pleasurable diversion in their social and historical contexts and shows how they have remarkable bearing on present-day debates on cultural literacy.
Walter Benjamin
Publication Date: June 1997
The German edition, titled Walter Benjamin: Einfiihrung in Leben und Werk, was published in 1985.
