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  • - Essays and Conversations on Jewish Culture
    av Ilan Stavans
    311,-

    Is there such a thing as a modern Jewish literary tradition, one navigating across linguistic and national lines? If so, how should one define it? This volume explores the problems and prospects of representing Jewish experiences through such media as Holocaust memoirs and Jewish museums.

  • av Dr. Grace Moore
    453 - 1 508,-

    Introduces students to the Victorian novel and its contexts, teaching strategies for reading and researching nineteenth-century literature. This book considers the Victorian novel as a product of the industrial age by focusing on popular texts including Dickens' "Oliver Twist", Gaskell's "North and South" and Hardy's "The Mayor of Casterbridge".

  • av W. G. Kudszus
    444,-

    Georg Trakl (1887-1914) has emerged as one of the most influential poets of the century. This title explores and participates in the relentless process of Trakl's writing.

  • av Sander L. Gilman
    610,-

    Focuses on great authors who have by birth or choice (or both) found themselves outside the mainstream of their culture but who have still wished to address it: Goethe, Freud, Wilde, Heine, Nietzsche, and Isaac Bashevis Singer, among others. This title reveals their efforts to come to terms with their real or imagined sense of difference.

  • - Paul de Man's Post-Romanticism
    av Ortwin de Graef
    527,-

    Examining Paul de Man's work from the 1960s, this book concentrates on his interest in Romantic literature and criticism. Following de Man's strong readings of the works of Holderlin, Rousseau, and Wordsworth, it connects his interpretations of these and other writers with his earlier critical works and his later deconstructive writings.

  • - A Preface to Paul de Man, 1939-1960
    av Ortwin de Graef
    518,-

    A collection of interviews that showcases twelve leading Native artists and activists who have challenged and helped reshape prevailing expectations about Native cultures and identities during the late twentieth century. It discusses the effects of the American Indian Movement, religious freedom, and obligations to past cultural traditions.

  • - German Economic, Military, and Humanitarian Efforts in Africa
    av Nina Berman
    610,-

    A study of the German presence in Africa in the modern period that exposes forms of cultural domination that derive from a philosophy of progress and 'good intentions'. Highlighting patterns of domination that did not disappear with decolonization, it disputes assumptions about why global inequality has not only persisted but increased.

  • - The Return of German Jews and the Question of Identity
    av John Borneman
    777,-

    Features interviews that takes one to the heart of modern German Jewish history. This title offers accounts of the Weimar Republic, the Nazi era, the Holocaust, and the divided Germany of the Cold War era. It includes vivid descriptions of the new united Germany, with its alarming resurgence of xenophobia and anti-Semitism.

  • - Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism, and the "Jewish Question" after Auschwitz
    av Elizabeth J. Bellamy
    658,-

    Offers a contribution to the reassessment of postmodern culture and theory. This title examines how the Holocaust and Jews have been represented in a range of French poststructuralist works. It concludes that French thought "encrypts but does not fully confront the trauma of the Holocaust."

  • - Reflections on the Question of Genocide
    av Alain Finkielkraut
    434,-

    Examines the Holocaust, its origins in modern European thought and politics, and recent "revisionist" attempts to deny its full dimensions and, in some cases, its very existence as historical fact. This title is an essential contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust and of genocidal politics and thought in our century.

  • - Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism's Parlor Game
     
    603,-

    This collection is the first to address both historical and contemporary works that employ the ritual of the cadavre exquis. It offers a unique overview of the efforts of scholars and artists to articulate new notions of crossing temporal and spatial boundaries and to experience in a new way the body's mutability through visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic frames.

  • - The Life and Work of a German Jewish Intellectual
    av Heidi Thomann Tewarson
    603,-

    Rahel Levin Varnhagen occupied a unique place in German intellectual history. This work provides a comprehensive portrait of this remarkable woman. It gives an account of Varnhagen's intellectual community, and discusses Varnhagen's writings on women, philosophy, literature, Jews, and a host of other topics.

  • - Reflections on Jewish Culture
    av Ilan Stavans
    274,-

    Stavans interweaves his own experience with that of other Jewish writers and thinkers to explore modern Jewish culture across the boundaries of language and nation

  • av Salomon Isacovici
    185,-

    In 1944 the Germans arrived and Isacovici, his family, and every other Jew from his town were pushed into cattle cars and taken ever closer to the soot and smoke of Auschwitz. He became a man of ashes.

  • av Fiona McCulloch
    453 - 1 508,-

    Featuring close readings of commonly studied texts, this book takes students of Children's Literature through the key works, their contexts and critical and popular afterlives. It begins by introducing key issues involved in the study of children's literature and its social, cultural and literary contexts.

  • av Andrew Dix, Brian Jarvis & Paul Jenner
    1 436,-

    Adventurous, engaging and politically urgent, contemporary American novels have come to enjoy a particular prestige and, through university courses, film adaptations and cultural controversies, a global circulation. This book provides an introduction to the contemporary American novel focusing on contexts, key texts and criticism.

  • - The Strains of German-Jewish Modernism
    av Noah Isenberg
    220,-

    A revelatory exploration of the evolution of German-Jewish modernism. Through an examination of selected works in literature, theory, and film, it investigates the ways in which Jewish identity was represented in German culture from the eve of the First World War through the rise of National Socialism.

  • - Essays for the End of the Millennium
    av Avital Ronell
    274,-

    Suspending the distinction between headline news and high theory, this book examines the diverse figures of finitude in our modernity: war, guerrilla video, trauma TV, AIDS, music, divorce, sadism, electronic tagging, rumor.

  • av Julie Mullaney
    453 - 1 436,-

    Introduces key issues involved in the study of postcolonial literature including diasporas, postcolonial nationalisms, indigenous identities and politics and globalization. This book also contains a chapter on afterlives and adaptations that explores a range of wider cultural texts including film, non-fiction and art.

  • - Anti-antisemitism and the Politics of the French Intellectual
    av Jonathan Judaken
    331,99

    Examines the image of ""the Jew"" in Sartre's work to rethink not only his oeuvre but also the role of the intellectual in France and the politics and ethics of existentialism. It explores more broadly how French identity is defined through the abstraction and allegorization of ""the Jew"" and examines the role anti-antisemitic intellectuals play in this process.

  • - Meditations on Family and Place
    av Mindy Thompson Fullilove
    179,-

    Offers a series of meditations on the author's family and the places where they have lived. This book recalls her parents: her father, a black leader of the labor movement, and her mother, a white woman whose boundless generosity was always in conflict with the racial divisions of the world around her.

  • - Examining Modern Discourses on Jewish Art
    av Margaret Olin
    274,-

    Illuminates rise of paradigm of nonartistic Jew, and ways in which theorists, critics, and artists have sought to subvert, overcome, or work within it. This book examines cases that include Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts in Jerusalem, whose efforts to use art to create Jewish nationality in Palestine raise important issues of national identity.

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    478,-

    Offers a wide-ranging study of German colonialism and its legacies. This title provides essays that focus on Germany's formal colonial empire in Africa and the Pacific between 1884 and 1914, and present material from earlier or later periods such as German emigration before 1884 and colonial discourse in German-ruled Polish lands.

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    274,-

    Provides a wide-ranging study of German colonialism and its legacies. Inspired by Susanne Zantop's landmark book Colonial Fantasies, and extending her analyses there, this volume offers new research by scholars from Europe, Africa, and the United States. It also commemorates Zantop's distinguished life and career.

  • - In Search of the Motherbook
    av Susan Rubin Suleiman
    223,-

    A poignant piece of self-revelation, sprinkled with some trenchant observations on the way the dead hand of history has weighed down the former Warsaw Pact countries

  • - Desire, Disease, Death
    av Michael Hutcheon
    220,-

    Opera is quin-tessentially an art of love and desire, of loss and suffering, of disease and death. This title offers an understanding of both content and context.

  • - Essays on Politics and Culture, 1990-1998
    av Zafer Senocak
    220,-

    Presents an English translation that includes essays which chart an orientation for German life, culture, and politics beyond the Cold War and at the dawn of an unprecedented era.

  • av Gail Ashton
    425 - 1 436,-

    Presents an introduction to the key texts and historical, cultural and critical contexts of medieval romance. This book introduces key issues and events that impacted on romance writing and its reception such as chivalric ideals, the Black Death, wars and 'Englishness' as well as key literary issues such as medieval manuscript production.

  • av Alain Finkielkraut
    158,-

    The Holocaust changed what it means to be a Jew, for Jew and non-Jew alike. This title decodes the shifts in anti-Semitism at the end of the Cold War, chronicles the impact of Israel's policies on European Jews, opposes arguments both for and against cultural assimilation, and reopens questions about Marx and Judaism.

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