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Murderesses In German Writing, 1720â€“1860 - Heroines Of Horror

by Susanne (University College London) Kord

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 Drawing on extensive archival records and published texts, Susanne Kord investigates the stories of eight famous murderesses in Germany as they were told in legal, psychological, philosophical and literary writings. A major work of German cultural history, this highly original book raises thought-provoking questions about eighteenth- and nineteenth-century gender norms.
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The German Tradition Of Psychology In Literature And Thought, 1700â€“1840

by Matthew (King'S College London) Bell

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 The period from 1700 to 1840 produced some highly sophisticated psychological theorising that became central to German intellectual and cultural life long before the commonly accepted start of psychology as a discipline in the late-nineteenth century. Matthew Bell analyses expressions of psychological theory in Goethe, Kant, Schiller and others.
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Brecht'S Poetry Of Political Exile

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 Bertolt Brecht was one of the most influential European playwrights of the twentieth century and a poet of distinction. In this volume, contributors analyse Brecht's Svendborg Poems critically and historically, discussing it in relation to questions of poetics, political commitment, exile, and the scope and limitations of political poetry.
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Philosophy And German Literature, 1700â€“1990

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 Although the connection between German literature and philosophy has often been emphasised in relation to particular texts, little research has been undertaken into the broader dialogue between the two. This edited collection offers six chapters by leading specialists on the interplay between the work of German literary writers and philosophers.
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The German Bildungsroman - Incest And Inheritance

by Michael (University Of Cambridge) Minden

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 The Bildungsroman - the story of the development or formation of a young man - is the most famous German contribution to the European novel. This 1997 book offers detailed readings of some of the best-known novels in the German language, challenging traditional ideas about the Bildungsroman, and about the function of literature.
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Contemporary German Fiction - Writing In The Berlin Republic

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 The profound political and social changes Germany has undergone since 1989 have been reflected in an extraordinarily rich range of contemporary writing. These informative and accessible readings build up a clear picture of the central themes and stylistic concerns of the best writers working in Germany today.
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Christa Wolf'S Utopian Vision - From Marxism To Feminism

by Anna K. Kuhn

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 This is a book-length chronological study in English of Christa Wolf's works. It traces the development and continuity of the writer's major themes and concerns against the backdrop of her constantly evolving relationship to Marxism, and documents the rise of her feminist consciousness.
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Women Writers And National Identity - Bachmann, Duden, Ozdamar

by Stephanie (University College London) Bird

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 Stephanie Bird offers a detailed analysis of the twin themes of female identity and national identity in the works of three major twentieth-century German-language women writers: Ingeborg Bachmann, Anne Duden and Emine Ã-zdamar. This book will be of interest to literary and women's studies scholars as well as Germanists.
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Frankenstein'S Island - England And The English In The Writings Of Heinrich Heine

by S. S. Prawer

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 Professor Prawer's new book documents Heinrich Heine's lifelong involvement with England and the English. It shows him to have been a witty and intelligent observer of English men and women, institutions and politics; and to have extended his observation backwards into English history and literature of the past in a way that constantly welds the past to the present.
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Hugo Von Hofmannsthal - The Theaters Of Consciousness

by Benjamin Bennett

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 Professor Bennett examines Hofmannsthal's work in the context of literary theory and the history of philosophy.
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The German Tradition Of Psychology In Literature And Thought, 1700â€“1840

by Matthew (King'S College London) Bell

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 The period from 1700 to 1840 produced some highly sophisticated psychological theorising that became central to German intellectual and cultural life long before the commonly accepted start of psychology as a discipline in the late-nineteenth century. Matthew Bell analyses expressions of psychological theory in Goethe, Kant, Schiller and others.
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Murderesses In German Writing, 1720â€“1860 - Heroines Of Horror

by Susanne (University College London) Kord

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 Drawing on extensive archival records and published texts, Susanne Kord investigates the stories of eight famous murderesses in Germany as they were told in legal, psychological, philosophical and literary writings. A major work of German cultural history, this highly original book raises thought-provoking questions about eighteenth- and nineteenth-century gender norms.
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Friedrich Schiller - Drama, Thought And Politics

by Lesley Sharpe

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 In this important study Lesley Sharpe assesses Schiller's development as a dramatist, poet and thinker against the background of his life and of social, political and literary events in the last two decades of the eighteenth century, placing particular emphasis on his engagement with the relationship between art, morality and politics.
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Contemporary German Fiction - Writing In The Berlin Republic

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 The profound political and social changes Germany has undergone since 1989 have been reflected in an extraordinarily rich range of contemporary writing. These informative and accessible readings build up a clear picture of the central themes and stylistic concerns of the best writers working in Germany today.
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Literature And German Reunification

by Stephen (Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania) Brockmann

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 This is a full-length study of the literary consequences of German reunification, and one of the few to treat contemporary Germany as a cultural and national unity. It discusses ways in which authors accommodate their national history and identity, and wider concepts of nationhood and national literatures.
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Stefan Heym - The Perpetual Dissident

by Peter (University Of Cambridge) Hutchinson

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 Stefan Heym was Hitler's youngest literary exile. This book, the first full-length study of Heym to appear in English, outlines his exciting career, which culminated in his becoming the major dissident of the German Democratic Republic. As well as considering journalism and fiction, Peter Hutchinson discusses Heym's early poetry and drama.
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Women, The Novel, And The German Nation 1771â€“1871 - Domestic Fiction In The Fatherland

by Todd (University Of California, San Diego) Kontje

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 This 1998 book is a survey in English of novels by German women from 1771 to 1871. It discusses the lives and works of fourteen women writers, and argues that their novels played an important role in shaping attitudes toward class, gender and the nation in the century before Germany's first unification.
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Rilke, Modernism And Poetic Tradition

by Judith (Harvard University, Massachusetts) Ryan

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 This 1999 book traces Rilke's development from aestheticism to modernism, paying special attention to the way his work engages with other poetry and visual arts. Rilke is now the most widely read and influential German-language poet, and this study is full of new discoveries about his innovative and often profoundly moving poems.
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The Plays Of Heinrich Von Kleist - Ideals And Illusions

by Sean (University Of Reading) Allan

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 This is an accessible 1996 study of the plays of Kleist (1777â€"1811), an important and much-studied author whose work has been highly influential in contemporary German writing. SeÃ¡n Allan examines Kleist's critique of the aspirations of both Enlightenment and Romantic metaphysics, and offers resolutions of a number of long-running controversies in Kleist criticism.
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The Dear Purchase - A Theme In German Modernism

by J. P. (University College London) Stern

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 This book studies works by twelve major writers of German modernism in relation to the history of the twentieth century.
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Freud'S Literary Culture

by Graham (University Of Liverpool) Frankland

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 This original book investigates the role played by literature in Sigmund Freud's creation and development of psychoanalysis. Graham Frankland analyses the whole range of Freud's own texts from a literary-critical perspective, providing a comprehensive reappraisal of his life's work.
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The German Bildungsroman - Incest And Inheritance

by Michael (University Of Cambridge) Minden

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 The Bildungsroman - the story of the development or formation of a young man - is the most famous German contribution to the European novel. This 1997 book offers detailed readings of some of the best-known novels in the German language, challenging traditional ideas about the Bildungsroman, and about the function of literature.
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Philosophy And German Literature, 1700â€“1990

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 Although the connection between German literature and philosophy has often been emphasised in relation to particular texts, little research has been undertaken into the broader dialogue between the two. This edited collection offers six chapters by leading specialists on the interplay between the work of German literary writers and philosophers.
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Women Writers And National Identity - Bachmann, Duden, Ozdamar

by Stephanie (University College London) Bird

133,84€ + 10% CARD

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 Stephanie Bird offers a detailed analysis of the twin themes of female identity and national identity in the works of three major twentieth-century German-language women writers: Ingeborg Bachmann, Anne Duden and Emine Ã-zdamar. This book will be of interest to literary and women's studies scholars as well as Germanists.
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