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Volume offering a guide to and reassessment of Thomas Mann's famous novel.

Analysis of the novellas of the German Romantic writer and composer, focusing on the issues of art and the artist.

Sixteen new, carefully focused essays on the prose works of one of the great writers of modernity.

Discussion of Thomas Mann's fiction (particularly Doctor Faustus), his preoccupation with redemption, and the connection in his work between myth and music.

First English translation of the famous German novel about a woman's struggle against Victorian social conventions, now in paperback for classroom use.

A concise general history of German literature from the early middle ages to the beginning of the 20th century.

New essays examining the complex period of rich artistic ferment that was German literary Expressionism.

The first book to consider together the responses of the great Austrian writers Musil, Roth, and Bachmann to the crisis of modernity.

Examines literary, philosophical, and cultural influences on Mahler's thought and work from the standpoint of the composer's position in German-Jewish culture.

Views adaptations as a way in which Germany seeks to come to terms with its past.

A comprehensive survey of German literary writers' political writing and involvement since 1945.

A new analysis of one of the most loaded terms in the German language: Heimat, or Homeland.

New, specially commissioned essays providing an in-depth scholarly introduction to the great thinker of the European Enlightenment.

A collection of essays examining the influence of Kant on Heinrich von Kleist.

A study of the enormous influence of the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche on turn-of-the-century German literature.

A unique historical and literary document of lives dislocated by the collapse of East Germany.

Studies of one of the foremost 20c Austrian writers, as a critic and as a novelist and dramatist.

Essays on the synthesis of the musical and literary arts in German Romanticism.

The employment of the hotel as a setting for literary works of the period and the cultural reasons behind it.

A genuinely accessible introduction to Freud's theory and its application to literary and cultural studies.

Shows Goethe, the most famous of German writers, as a child of the Enlightenment.

A long-overdue study of the East German view of the Holocaust over the years 1946-1989.

New and insightful interpretations of the controversial stories of Heinrich von Kleist.

The first study to propose a unifying logic underlying the many and varied representations of the vampire in literature and culture.

A fascinating look at Nazi Germany as revealed in its films.

Illuminates the major aspects of the works of Germany's greatest 20th-century poet.

A reassessment of genre that fills a major gap in Goethe's oeuvre and initiates a radically new reading of Faust.

At last an engaging and highly readable guide to the works and significance of Goethe.

Up-to-date criticism and commentary on the greatest of the German courtly epics.

The first book-length study of Hoelderlin's postwar reception and a case study of Germanistik.