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Reveals and analyzes the current strong emphasis in German literature on the role of houses and homes in our constructions of selfhood and belonging.

Explores sonic events and auditory experiences in German-speaking contexts from the Middle Ages to the digital age, opening up new understandings.

The most comprehensive, readable history of German cinema now appears in an expanded, up-to-date new edition that is particularly useful for students and teachers of German film history.

Examines key contemporary Austrian literary texts, films, and memorials that treat Nazism and the Holocaust for what they reveal about the country's contemporary politics of memory.

An encyclopedic selection of original documents from the Austrian capital's pathbreaking, progressive interwar period, translated and with contextualizing introductions and commentaries.

First thorough treatment in English of one of Brecht's most important antifascist works.

New essays by leading scholars examining today's vibrant and innovative German crime fiction, along with its historical background.

A European novel of racial mixing and "passing" in early twentieth-century America that serves as a unique account of transnational and transcultural racial attitudes that continue to reverberate today.

An extensive look at historical, literary, and media representations of '68 in Germany, challenging the way it has been instrumentalized.

Employs research on the GDR's healthcare system along with feminist and queer theory to get at socialism's legacy, revealing a specifically East German literary convention: employment of "symptomatic female bodies" to either enforce or rebel against political and social norms.

An innovative, critical, historically informed, yet accessible reassessment of writers who remained in Nazi Germany and Austria yet expressed nonconformity - even dissent - through their fiction.

A new critical assessment of the works of the Austrian-Jewish author, in whom there has been a recent resurgence of interest, from the perspective of world literature.

Captures the learning process of Nazi-era literary exiles following in the footsteps of legendary literary exemplars of exile.

German history films that focus on utopianism and political dissent and their effect on German identity since 1989.

The first book in English on the German Gothic in over thirty years, consisting of new essays investigating the internationality of the Gothic mode.

Examines the lure of mountains in German literature, philosophy, film, music, and culture from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century.

A collection of essays -- early seminal works as well as freshinterpretations -- on the famous German expressionist film,Metropolis.

The first book that presents key original texts from the modern German philosophical tradition to English-language students and scholars of German, with introductions, commentaries, and annotations that make them accessible.

An advanced introduction to Benjamin's work and its actualization for our own times.

New essays on the works and themes of Hesse, one of the most perennially relevant and widely-read German authors.

First English translation of the final work of Theodor Fontane, one of Germany's most significant novelists.

Informed by recent historical research on nineteenth-century nationalism, this book demonstrates how the construction of a German national identity, especially in girls' education, came to be experienced by reading girls.

Detailed analysis of Brecht's extensive theoretical writings on the theater, including newly available works.

New essays introducing a broad range of novelists of the Weimar period.

New essays demonstrating and exploring the abiding fascination of Wagner's controversial work.

New, wide-ranging essays on the controversial poet, who was both a harbinger of Modernism and a critic of modernity.

A fresh and extensive look at the works of the great Austrian novelist in the context of the German and Austrian culture of his time.

New essays on the most prominent German dramatist and short-story writer of the early 19th century.

Essays shedding light on the increasingly open cultural debate on the German past.

Key topics in important German medieval work surveyed and reassessed.