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Born in 1927, Gerhard G was one of Germany's youngest soldiers during the Second World War. He was only fifteen years old when in September 1943 he became a student in German Flak, an anti-aircraft gun unit that defended Germany against frequent aerial attacks by the Allied Forces. This book includes a historical and biographical introduction.

Examines the complex relationships between original creative works and subsequent versions of these originals, from both theoretical and pragmatic perspectives. In this book, the process involves the rereading, reinterpretation, and rediscovery of literary texts, paintings, photographs, and films.

A collection of essays that explores the theme of sanctuaries of light in nineteenth-century European literature, especially in selected works. It is suitable for professors, teachers, and scholars in the fields of English literature, German literature, European literature, comparative literature, and cultural studies.

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The Final Crossing: Death and Dying in Literature compiles fifteen in-depth, scholarly, and original essays on death and dying in literature from around the globe and from different time periods. Written from a variety of critical perspectives, the essays target both scholars and serious students.

This unique work of scholarship explores contemporary issues of male spectatorship and the importance of biography for art criticism in the work of Tracy Chevalier, Eunice Lipton, Anna Banti, Kate Braverman, and Susan Vreeland.

Offers an examination of the evolution of the two testaments, including analyses of the three book-length studies of the novel, climaxing with Wenke's argument that the Genetic Text shows the novel's active pursuit of ambiguity. This title analyzes the three major characters, showing how the text programmatically complicates each judgment of them.