Alois Riegl and the Discourse on History and Temporality in Fin-De-Siècle Vienna
by Michael Gubser
Price: $57.99
ISBN: 9780814332085
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: January 2006
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
312 Pages
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.
Youth, Reeducation, and Reconstruction After the Second World War
by Jaimey Fisher
Price: $52.99
ISBN: 9780814333297
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: June 2007
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
392 Pages
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.
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.
Trauma and Displacement in Postwar German Jewish Writers
by Katja Garloff
Price: $52.99
ISBN: 9780814332450
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: September 2005
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
264 Pages
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.
German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz
by Richard T. Gray
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9780814331798
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: March 2004
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
510 Pages
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.
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.
Readers interested in modem German literature and culture, literary and cultural theory, comparative literature, Weimar culture, and fascism will welcome this book.
Photography, Archaeology, and Psychoanalysis and the Tradition of Bildung
by Eric Downing
Price: $59.99
ISBN: 9780814333013
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: August 2006
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
384 Pages
Scholars, students, and teachers of German studies, comparative literature, cultural studies, and classical studies will appreciate this insightful volume.
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.
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 of film and German cultural studies.
Fashion, Entertainment, and Cultural Consumption in Germany, 1780-1830
by Karin Wurst
Price: $62.99
ISBN: 9780814331316
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: September 2005
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
512 Pages
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.
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