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This is Camden House’s general German studies series, in which numerous titles have appeared since the early 1980s. It welcomes a broad range of topics and approaches - from traditional, narrowly literary studies on one hand to forays into cultural studies and cultural history on the other, from approaches based on traditional close reading to those emphasizing theory, from feminist to postmodern to multicultural. All periods of German culture and literature are fair game, from medieval Spielmannsepen to currently emerging writers of the twenty-first century.

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253 results in Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Three Political Tales from Medieval Germany
  • Duke Ernst, Henry of Kempten, and Reynard the Fox
  • Edited and translated by Brian Murdoch
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 May 2024
    Print publication:
    14 May 2024
  • Translations of three texts that reveal much about medieval political thought and remain relevant to today's political systems.

Max Stirner and Nihilism
  • Between Two Nothings
  • Tim Dowdall
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 May 2024
    Print publication:
    14 May 2024
  • A reassessment of the controversial, yet still influential nineteenth-century German philosopher that explores the contentious issue of whether he was, as his critics frequently claim, a nihilist.

A Companion to Sound in German-Speaking Cultures
  • Edited by Rolf J. Goebel
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 February 2024
    Print publication:
    24 October 2023
  • Explores sonic events and auditory experiences in German-speaking contexts from the Middle Ages to the digital age, opening up new understandings.

Germany's Other Modernism
  • The Jena Paradigm, 1900-1914
  • Meike G. Werner
  • Translated by Stephen D. Dowden
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    11 January 2024
    Print publication:
    25 April 2023
  • Demonstrates, contrary to conventional wisdom, that European modernism developed not only in the great metropolitan centers, but also in provincial cities such as Jena.

The Freest Country in the World
  • East Germany's Final Year in Culture and Memory
  • Stephen Brockmann
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    11 January 2024
    Print publication:
    20 June 2023
  • Shows that while the GDR is generally seen as - and mostly was - an oppressive and unfree country, from late 1989 until autumn 1990 it was the 'freest country in the world': the dictatorship had disappeared while the welfare system remained.

German Literature as a Transnational Field of Production, 1848-1919
  • Edited by Lynne Tatlock, Kurt Beals
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    10 January 2024
    Print publication:
    13 June 2023
  • A collection of new essays bringing into view the push and pull of the national and the international in the German-language cultural field of the period.

Duino Elegies
  • A New Translation and Commentary
  • Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Edited by Martin Travers
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    10 January 2024
    Print publication:
    21 March 2023
  • A new translation of Rilke's great work with close readings of each of the ten elegies elucidating how their poetic attributes constitute their meaning.

Inspiration Bonaparte?
  • German Culture and Napoleonic Occupation
  • Edited by Seán Allan, Jeffrey L. High
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    04 January 2024
    Print publication:
    15 September 2021
  • Two hundred years after his death, Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) continues to resonate as a fascinating, ambivalent, and polarizing figure. Differences of opinion as to whether Bonaparte should be viewed as the executor of the principles of the French Revolution or as the figure who was principally responsible for their corruption are as pronounced today as they were at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Contributing to what had been an uneasy German relationship with the French Revolution, the rise of Bonaparte was accompanied by a pattern of Franco-German hostilities that inspired both enthusiastic support and outraged dissent in the German-speaking states.

    The fourteen essays that comprise Inspiration Bonaparte? examine the mythologization of Napoleon in German literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and explore the significant impact of Napoleonic occupation on a broad range of fields including philosophy, painting, politics, the sciences, education, and film. As the contributions from leading scholars emphasize, the contradictory attitudes toward Bonaparte held by so many prominent German thinkers are a reflection of his enduring status as a figure through whom the trauma of shattered late-Enlightenment expectations of sociopolitical progress and evolving concepts of identity politics is mediated.

Heinrich von Kleist
  • Writing after Kant
  • Tim Mehigan
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    14 November 2023
    Print publication:
    01 December 2011
  • In this book, Kleist is viewed anew as a major contributor to the tradition of post-Kantian thought.

German Literature, Jewish Critics

Nazi Cinema as Enchantment
  • The Politics of Entertainment in the Third Reich
  • Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    25 March 2023
    Print publication:
    28 November 2003
  • A study of thirteen Nazi-era films that explores how entertainment cinema served everyday fascism.

Willkommen und Abschied
  • Thirty-Five Years of German Writers-in-Residence at Oberlin College
  • Edited by Dorothea Kaufmann, Heidi Thomann Tewarson
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    18 March 2023
    Print publication:
    01 November 2005
  • Chronicles the first 35 years of the oldest program of its kind in the US, with biographical information on and creative contributions from the participants.

A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka

Reading Goethe

A Companion to the Works of Robert Musil

Nuremberg
  • The Imaginary Capital
  • Stephen Brockmann
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    15 March 2023
    Print publication:
    01 October 2006
  • Traces the development of ideas of Nuremberg as cultural and spiritual capital, thus offering a coherent view of German cultural and intellectual history.

The Novels of Erich Maria Remarque
  • Sparks of Life
  • Brian Murdoch
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    15 March 2023
    Print publication:
    27 October 2006
  • New view of Remarque's novels as a chronicle of the century yet more than a mere reflection of historical events.

A History of Austrian Literature 1918-2000

Reading W. G. Sebald

A Companion to the Works of Hermann Hesse
  • Edited by Ingo Cornils
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    02 March 2023
    Print publication:
    30 August 2013
  • New essays on the works and themes of Hesse, one of the most perennially relevant and widely-read German authors.

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