2013 german studies catalogue

GERMANSTUDIES

Occident meets OrientExploring the ‘East’ in German Literature and Culture

Goethe & his Contemporarieson Literature, Religion, Art & Architecture

Screen CultureNew books shedding light on German film genres and movements

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“The Space of Words” HOYER 6

Aging and Old-Age Style in Günter Grass, Ruth Klüger, Christa Wolf, and Martin Walser TABERNER 3

Agnes Blannbekin, Viennese Beguine WIETHAUS 4

Companion to Friedrich Nietzsche BISHOP 10

Companion to the Works of Hermann Hesse C ORNILS 6

Companion to the Works of Max Frisch BERWALD 3

Counter-Cinema of the Berlin School ABEL 3

Deploying Orientalism in European Culture and History HODKINSON et al 9

Differentiation of Modernism POWELL 10

Emerging German-Language Novelists of the Twenty-First Century MARVEN / TABERNER 8

Ethical Approaches in Modern German-Language Literature and Culture MAT THES / JEREMIAH 9

Faustian Century VAN DER L AAN / WEEKS 4

Fifteenth-Century Studies 38 GUSICK 4

Friedelind Wagner RIEGER / WALT ON 11

Generic Histories of German Cinema FISHER 10

Germans as Victims in the Literary Fiction of the Berlin Republic TABERNER / BERGER 7

Ghetto Voices in Contemporary German Culture STEHLE 8

Goethe Yearbook 20 PURDY 5

Goethe’s Ghosts RICHTER / BLO CK 5

Good Girls, Good Germans ASKEY 6

Heights of Reflection IRET ON / SCHAUMANN 9

Heinrich von Kleist and Jean-Jacques Rousseau HOWE 5

History in Mighty Sounds EICHNER 11

Housebound SHAFI 8

Imagining Germany Imagining Asia FUECHTNER / RHIEL 9

Johann Joachim Winckelmann on Art, Architecture, and Archaeology WINCKELMANN / CARTER 5

Late-Medieval German Women’s Poetry CL ASSEN 4

Literary Studies and the Pursuits of Reading D OWNING / HESS / BENSON 9

Luise Gottsched the Translator BROWN 4

Marriage, Gender, and Desire in Early Enlightenment German Comedy POT TER 4

Mechthild of Magdeburg ANDERSEN 4

Metamimesis PIRHOLT 5

Modern German Thought from Kant to Habermas DE BERG / L ARGE 10

New History of German Cinema KAPCZYNSKI / RICHARDSON 10

Nexus 2 C OLLINS D ONAHUE / HELFER 9

Nomadic Ethics in Contemporary Women’s Writing in German JEREMIAH 8

Popular Revenants CUSACK / MURNANE 5

Post-Wall German Cinema and National History O’ BRIEN 10

Reading Mahler NIEKERK 11

Religion in Contemporary German Drama CROWE 8

Religion, Reason, and Culture in the Age of Goethe KRIMMER / SIMPSON 5

Remembering Africa GÖT T SCHE 3

Representing the “Good German” in Literature and Culture after 1945 D O CHARTAIGH / SCHÖNFELD 7

Rethinking Hanslick GRIMES / D ONOVAN / MAR X 11

Reworking the German Past FIGGE / WARD 7

Stechlin FONTANE / ZWIEBEL 6

Translingual Identities STEINITZ 6

Undiscover’d Country ZISSELSBERGER 7

Violent Women in Print BIELBY 7

World as Metaphor in Robert Musil’s The Man without Qualities GRILL 6

Writers and Politics in Germany, 1945-2008 PARKES 7

Front cover: Max Frisch at the door step to his study. Photograph taken at Frisch’s summer residence in Berzona in 1976. © Robert Lebeck/Max Frisch Archive, Zurich, used by kind permission. Cover image of A Companion to the Works of Max Frisch, edited by Olaf Berwald (see page 3 for detailed information).

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HIGHLIGHTSHIGHLIGHTS

The Counter-Cinema of the Berlin SchoolMARCO ABEL

The first book-length study in any language of the “Berlin School,” the most significant filmmaking movement to come out of Germany since the 1970s. The group of contemporary German directors collectively known as the “Berlin School” constitutes the most significant filmmaking movement to come out of Germany since the New German Cinema of the 1970s, not least because its films mark the emergence of a new film language in

German cinema. The filmmakers belonging to the Berlin School, including Christian Petzold, Thomas Arslan, Angela Schanelec, Christoph Hochhäusler, Ulrich Köhler, Benjamin Heisenberg, Maren Ade, and Valeska Grisebach, are reminiscent in their auteurism of the directors of the New German Autorenkino and of French cinéma des auteurs of the 1960s.This volume is the first book-length study in any language of the Berlin School. Its central thesis – that the movement should be regarded as a “counter-cinema” – is built around the unusual style of realism employed in the films of this movement, a realism that presents audiences with images of a Germany that does not yet exist. Abel concludes that it is precisely how these films’ images and sounds work that renders them political. They are political not because they are message-driven films but because they are made politically, thus performing a “redistribution of the sensible” – a direct artistic intervention in the way politics partitions ways of doing and making, saying and seeing.MARCO ABEL is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. $90.00/£60.00(s) November 2013978 1 57113 438 726 b/w illus.; 400pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBScreen Cultures: German Film and the Visual

Aging and Old-Age Style in Günter Grass, Ruth Klüger, Christa Wolf, and Martin WalserThe Mannerism of a Late PeriodSTUART TABERNER

Explores the performance of aging in the “late style” of Günter Grass, Christa Wolf, Ruth Klüger, and Martin Walser.Demographers say that by the year 2060, every seventh person in Germany will be aged eighty or older, and every third person over sixty-five. The prediction for other Western countries is scarcely different. Indeed, the aging society is seen by some as a graver threat than

even global warming, with potentially unmanageable tensions relating to intergenerational relationships, work and benefits, and flows of people.This book explores the representation and performance of aging in recent “late-style” German-language fiction. It situates the authors chosen as case studies – Günter Grass, Christa Wolf, Ruth Klüger, and Martin Walser – in their biographical and social contexts and explores the significance of their aesthetic figuring of aging for debates raging both in Germany and internationally. In particular, the book looks at gender, generations, and trauma and their impact on how writers “narrativize” aging. Finally, it examines the “timeliness” of these different representations and late-style performances of aging in the context of the shift of social, political, and economic power away from the declining societies of the West to the ascendant societies of the East. STUART TABERNER is Professor of Contemporary German Literature, Culture and Society at the University of Leeds. $90.00/£60.00(s) December 2013978 1 57113 578 0294pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

A Companion to the Works of Max Frisch Edited by OLAF BERWALD

A comprehensive advanced introduction to and scholarly commentary on the work of the Swiss writer Max Frisch, one of the leading German-language dramatists and novelists of the late 20th-century.One of the most influential German-language writers of the late twentieth century, Max Frisch (1911-1991) not only has canonical status in Europe, but has also been well received in the English-speaking world. English translations of his

works are available in multiple recent editions. Frisch was a recipient of both the Büchner Award (1958), and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (1976); his body of work explores questions of identity, alienation, and ethics in modern society. He is best known for the plays Andorra (1961), a seminal drama that examines indifference and mass psychology in the context of the Shoah and continues to be produced by theaters around the world, and Biedermann und die Brandstifter (1958), another worldwide success and one of the most frequently used texts in advanced undergraduate German courses in the US, as well as for his novels Stiller (1954), Homo Faber (1957), and Mein Name sei Gantenbein (1964). Yet Frisch has only recently begun to receive the sustained scholarly attention he deserves: neither a comprehensive introductory volume to nor a collaborative handbook on the works of Frisch is available in English, a situation that this volume redresses.CONTRIBUTORS: Régine Battiston, Olaf Berwald, Amanda Boyd, Daniel de Vin, Céline Letawe, Walter Obschlager, John D. Pizer, Beate Sandberg, Caroline Schaumann, Frank Schaumann, Walter Schmitz, Margit Unser, Klaus van den Berg, Ruth Vogel-Klein, Paul Youngman.$90.00/£60.00(s) September 2013978 1 57113 418 9, eISBN 978 1 57113 777 7308pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Remembering AfricaThe Rediscovery of Colonialism in Contemporary German LiteratureDIRK GÖT TSCHE

A groundbreaking treatment of the themes of colonialism and Africa in German literary fiction as presented in some fifty novels from the past three decades.In the late 1990s, in the wake of German unification, multiculturalism, and globalization, a surge of historical novels about German colonialism in Africa and its previously neglected legacies hit the German literary scene.

This development, accelerated by the centenary in 2004 of Germany’s colonial war in South-West Africa, has continued to the present, making colonialism an established theme of literary memorialization alongside Germany’s dominant memory themes – National Socialism and the Holocaust, the former GDR and its demise in the Wende, and, more recently, “1968.”This is the first comprehensive study of contemporary German literature’s intense engagement with German colonialism and with Germany’s wider involvement in European colonialism. Building on the author’s decade of research and publication in the field, the book discusses some fifty novels by German, Swiss, and Austrian writers, among them Hans Christoph Buch, Alex Capus, Christof Hamann, Lukas Hartmann, Ilona Maria Hilliges, Giselher W. Hoffmann, Dieter Kühn, Hermann Schulz, Gerhard Seyfried, Thomas von Steinaecker, Uwe Timm, Ilija Trojanow, and Stephan Wackwitz. Drawing on international postcolonial theory, the German tradition of cross-cultural literary studies, and on memory studies, the book brings the hitherto neglected German case to the international debate in postcolonial literary studies.DIRK GÖTTSCHE is Professor of German at the University of Nottingham.$95.00/£60.00(s) June 2013978 1 57113 546 9492pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture


MEDIEVAL & EARLY MODERN LITERATURE / 18TH-CENTURY LITERATURE

The Faustian Century German Literature and Culture in the Age of Luther and FaustusEdited by J. M. VAN DER LAAN & ANDREW WEEKS

The Reformation and Renaissance, though segregated into discrete disciplines today, interacted and clashed in Faust, the great figure that attained European prominence in the anonymous 1587 Historia von D. Johann Fausten. The original

Faust behind Goethe’s famous drama embodies an obscure culture. The age explored here as “the Faustian century” invested the Faustbuch and its themes with a symbolic significance still of exceptional relevance today. The essays in this volume complement one another, providing insights into the tensions and forces that gave the German sixteenth century its distinct character.CONTRIBUTORS: Marguerite de Huszar Allen, Kresten Thue Andersen, Frank Baron, Günther Bonheim, Albrecht Classen, Urs Leo Gantenbein, Karl S. Guthke, Michael Keefer, Paul Ernst Meyer, J. M. van der Laan, Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly, Andrew Weeks.$90.00/£60.00(s) February 2013978 1 57113 552 0, eISBN 978 1 57113 843 914 b/w illus.; 412pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Fifteenth-Century Studies 38Edited by BARBARA I . GUSICK Volume 38 addresses a broad spectrum of topics: monastic reformation of domestic space in Richard Whitford’s Werke for Housholders; Margery Kempe and spectatorship in medieval drama; The Book of Margery Kempe and the trial of Joan of Arc; a new edition and interpretations of The Book of the Duke and Emperor in the context of MS Manchester, Chetham’s Library 8009 (Mun. A.6.31); two cultural perspectives on the Battle of Lippa, Transylvania (1551); translation and manipulation of audience expectations in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; the dry tree legend in medieval literature; and Wessel Gansfort, John Mombaer, and medieval technologies of the self. Book reviews conclude the volume.CONTRIBUTORS: Brandon Alakas, Maria Dobozy, Andrew Eichel, Rosanne Gasse, Kate McLean, Jesse Njus, Sarah Ritchey, P. R. Robins.$75.00/£50.00(s) July 2013978 1 57113 558 2, eISBN 978 1 57113 861 315 b/w illus.; 254pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBFifteenth-Century Studies

OF R E L AT E D I N T E R E ST

Mechthild of Magdeburg Selections from The Flowing Light of the GodheadTranslated by ELIZABETH A. ANDERSENCompiled between c.1250 and c.1282, this extraordinary piece of imaginative writing integrates visions, auditions, dialogues, prayers, hymns, lyrical love poems, letters, allegories and parables, and draws creatively on features from hagiography, the disputation, the treatise, and magic spells. DR ELIZABETH A. ANDERSEN teaches in the School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University.Readers will welcome this thoughtful selection. JOURNAL OF ENGLISH & GERMANIC PHILOLO GY

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Late-Medieval German Women’s Poetry Secular and Religious SongsTranslated by ALBRECHT CLASSENThis collection presents a selection of secular love songs and religious hymns composed by 15th- and 16th-century German women poets, translated here for the first time.DR ALBRECHT CLASSEN is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of German Studies, University of Arizona.An important contribution […] Classen’s search for new female authors will certainly have an altering impact on the literary canon, serving as an inspiration to women’s studies across interdisciplinary lines. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW

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Agnes Blannbekin, Viennese Beguine Life and Revelations ULRIKE WIETHAUS This early example of a spiritual diary incorporating the visions of a female mystic offers a glimpse of religious women’s daily life and spiritual practices.ULRIKE WIETHAUS is Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Appointments, Wake Forest University.Scholars of women’s spirituality will welcome this entrée to the text of a lively, hitherto inaccessible author. CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW

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Luise Gottsched the TranslatorHILARY BROWN

Critics have paid increasing attention to the oeuvre of Luise Gottsched, but have neglected her lifelong work of translation. This first overview of Gottsched’s translations places them in the context of 18th-century intellectual, literary, and cultural

history, showing that they were part of an ambitious program undertaken with her famous husband to shape German culture during the Enlightenment.HILARY BROWN is Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK.In this attractive book, Brown […] illuminates Luise Gottsched’s unrecognized contributions to the Enlightenment… [She] provides new perspectives and suggests further study of translation and of an Enlightenment woman’s unexamined depth of achievements. CHOICE

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Marriage, Gender, and Desire in Early Enlightenment German Comedy EDWARD T. POT TER

The new literary comedies of the 1740s propagated a new sentimental discourse promoting marriage based on love while devaluing the traditional socioeconomic foundations of marriage. Yet in a number of these same comedies, alternative

gender roles and sexual behaviors call the primacy of marriage into question. Edward T. Potter examines this marital discourse in close readings of such plays, uncovering the ambiguity of 18th-century comedy’s stance on marriage and highlighting its resistance to the emerging discourse of the sentimental marriage.EDWARD T. POTTER is Associate Professor of German at Mississippi State University.Reading the texts against the grain, Potter argues convincingly that [they] fail to “contain and defuse” the alternatives (such as female autonomy, same-sex desire, and socially constructed genders) adequately, thereby creating a discursive space for alternatives to both sentimental and economic marriage […] Add[s] a new dimension to understanding of these comedies. CHOICE

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18TH-CENTURY LITERATURE & AGE OF GOETHE

Goethe Yearbook 20Edited by DANIEL PURDYThe Goethe Yearbook encourages North American Goethe scholarship by publishing original English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit while also welcoming contributions from scholars around the world. Volume 20 contains a special section on Goethe’s lyric poetry, providing innovative readings of Goethe’s most important poems, including contributions on Faust and on the West-östliche Divan. The volume also includes essays on Götz von Berlichingen, the Sturm-und-Drang sublime, the Nibelungenlied’s place within Weltliteratur, as well as an examination of Schiller’s notion of freedom.CONTRIBUTORS: Constantin Behler, Benjamin Bennett, Frauke Berndt, Fritz Breithaupt, Hannah Eldridge, Andrew Erwin, Patrick Fortmann, Edgar Landgraf, Horst Lange, Charlotte Lee, Claudia Maienborn, Joseph D. O’Neil, Elizabeth Powers, Christian P. Weber, W. Daniel Wilson.$75.00/£50.00(s) July 2013978 1 57113 559 9320pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBGoethe Yearbook

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Popular Revenants The German Gothic and Its International Reception, 1800-2000Edited by ANDREW CUSACK & BARRY MURNANE

[A]n indispensable, highly relevant guide that clearly shows the strong influence of the Germanic strain of horror on the genre we know today. RUE MORGUE MAGAZINE

The complete list of contributors can be found at the title’s page on our

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MetamimesisImitation in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and Early German RomanticismMAT TIAS PIRHOLT

Reconsiders the role played by mimesis – and by Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister as a mimetic work – in the novels of Early German Romanticism.MATTIAS PIRHOLT is a Research Fellow in the Department of Literature at Uppsala University, Sweden.

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Johann Joachim Winckelmann on Art, Architecture, and ArchaeologyJOHANN JOACHIM WINCKELMANN Translated by DAVID CARTERJohann Joachim Winckelmann has long been recognized as one of the founders of modern art history and a major force in the development of archaeology and the study of ancient Greek architecture. He also exerted an influence on the development of the Weimar Classicism of Goethe and Schiller. Yet several of his important essays are not available in modern English translation. The present volume remedies this situation by collecting four of Winckelmann’s most seminal essays on art along with several shorter pieces on the topic, two major if brief essays on architecture, and one longer one on archaeology.DAVID CARTER is retired as Professor of Communicative English at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, and is former Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Southampton, UK. Among his recently published translations from German are Klaus Mann’s novel Alexander (2008) and On Cocaine (2011), a collection of Sigmund Freud’s writings on the topic.$90.00/£60.00(s) September 2013978 1 57113 520 920 b/w illus.; 320pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Heinrich von Kleist and Jean-Jacques RousseauViolence, Identity, NationSTEVEN HOWE

Famously enigmatic, the works of Heinrich von Kleist are frequently seen to deconstruct idealist paradigms and to reflect an ironic, even postmodern, perspective on the ambiguities of the world. Such a view fails, however, to do justice to his

complex engagement with the intellectual discourses of his age. Steven Howe offers a new angle on Kleist’s dialogue with the Enlightenment by reconsidering his investment in the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the historical context of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, shedding new light on the political and ethical issues in Kleist’s work.STEVEN HOWE is Associate Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. [A] fascinating study of Rousseau’s seminal influence on Kleist… [His] contribution is to fill in the literary-historical gaps and to set a standard that will serve as a scholarly reference point for years to come. Highly recommended. CHOICE

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Goethe’s GhostsReading and the Persistence of LiteratureEdited by SIMON RICHTER & RICHARD BLO CK

Invoking Goethe’s name has become fashionable again. With new methods and technologies of reading threatening to render literature virtual and insubstantial, we have the sense that “Goethe’s ghosts” – otherwise neglected voices and

traditions that, finding their most trenchant expression in Goethe, inform the Western storehouse of literature – can show us long-forgotten dimensions of literature. Inspired by the distinguished Goethe scholar Jane Brown, whose life’s work has called attention to the allegorical modes haunting modern literature, the contributors to this volume take a rich variety of approaches, all testifying to Goethe’s enduring salience and presence.CONTRIBUTORS: Helmut Ammerlahn, Benjamin Bennett, Richard Block, Dieter Borchmeyer, Franz-Josef Deiters, Richard T. Gray, Martha B. Helfer, Meredith Lee, Clark Muenzer, Andrew Piper, Simon Richter, Jürgen Schroeder, Peter Schwartz, Patricia Simpson, Robert Tobin, David Wellbery, Sabine Wilke.$85.00/£55.00(s) December 2013978 1 57113 567 4300pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Religion, Reason, and Culture in the Age of GoetheEdited by ELISABETH KRIMMER & PATRICIA SIMPSON

The eighteenth century is usually considered to be a time of increasing secularization in which the primacy of theology was replaced by the authority of reason, yet this endeavor played itself out in a social and political reality that was heavily impacted

by religious customs and institutions. Religion, Reason, and Culture in the Age of Goethe investigates how culture in the Age of Goethe shaped and was shaped by a sustained and multifaceted debate about the place of religion and religious difference in politics, philosophy, and culture.CONTRIBUTORS: Frederick Amrine, Claire Baldwin, Lisa Beesley, Jane Brown, Jeffrey High, Elisabeth Krimmer, Helmut Schneider, Patricia Anne Simpson, John H. Smith, Tom Spencer.$90.00/£60.00(s) December 2013978 1 57113 561 212 b/w illus.; 254pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture


LATE 19TH-CENTURY / 20TH-CENTURY LITERATURE

Good Girls, Good GermansGirls’ Education and Emotional Nationalism in Wilhelminian GermanyJENNIFER DRAKE ASKEY

The age of nationalism in 19th-century Germany generally conjures up images of military leaders, welding together a nation through war and domestic social policy. Good Girls, Good Germans looks at how girls and young women became “national”

during this period on a domestic and emotional level. Informed by recent historical research on 19th-century nationalism, this study demonstrates how the top-down construction of a national identity, especially in girls’ education, came to be experienced by reading girls. Chapters in this book examine literature published for and taught to girls that encouraged readers to view domestic duties – and even romance – as potential avenues for national expression. By aligning her heart with the demands of the nation, a girl could successfully display her national involvement within the confines of the private sphere.JENNIFER DRAKE ASKEY is Associate Professor of German at Kansas State University.$85.00/£55.00(s) August 2013978 1 57113 562 95 b/w illus.; 218pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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The Stechlin THEOD OR FONTANE Translated by WILLIAM L. ZWIEBEL

Theodor Fontane (1819-98), widely regarded as Germany’s most significant novelist between Goethe and Thomas Mann, pioneered the German novel of manners and upper-class society, following a trend in European fiction of the period. In The

Stechlin, his last novel, Fontane portrays the best in the life and ways of the passing Prussian aristocracy, while describing his hopes for the future of Germany and its nobility, which were never to be fully realized.Zwiebel has produced a masterpiece in this translation of Fontane’s last major work. GERMANIC NOTES AND REVIEWS

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A Companion to the Works of Hermann Hesse Edited by INGO CORNILS

Today, forty years after Timothy Leary’s suggestion that hippies read Hermann Hesse while “turning on,” he is once again relevant: faced with ubiquitous materialism, war, and ecological disaster, we discover that these problems have found universal

expression in the works of this master storyteller. Hesse explores themes from the simple to the transcendental in a way that is relevant to young and old readers alike, viewing all life’s experiences from the perspective of the individual self, for Hesse the repository of the divine and the sole entity to which we are accountable. This volume of new essays sheds light on his major works and the poetry. Further essays explore Hesse’s interest in psychoanalysis, music, and eastern philosophy, his political views, the influence of his painting, and Hesse as a publishing phenomenon.This new and stimulating Companion can take its rightful place among the other Hesse companions that have arisen in recent years. ARBITRIUM

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The World as Metaphor in Robert Musil’s The Man without QualitiesPossibility as RealityGENESE GRILL

Robert Musil, a scientific and philosophical thinker, was committed to aesthetics as a process of experimental creation of ever-shifting realities via variations and metaphoric possibilities in his novel project. This lifelong process is embodied

in the unfinished novel by its recurring metaphor of self-generating de-centered circle worlds. The first study to utilize the Klagenfurt Edition of Musil’s literary and biographical remains (a searchable annotated text), The World as Metaphor offers a close reading of textual variations, emphasizing Musil’s commitment to the artist’s role in re-creating the world.GENESE GRILL holds a PhD in Germanic Literatures and Languages from the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York.$75.00/£50.00(s) December 2012978 1 57113 538 4216pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Translingual Identities Language and the Self in Stefan Heym and Jakov LindTAMAR STEINITZ

This work explores the psychology of literary translingualism by examining the works of two authors who, forced into exile by the rise of Nazism, chose English as their language of artistic expression. Steinitz argues that translingualism,

which ruptures the perceived link between language and world as the writer chooses between systems of representation, leads to a psychic split that can be expressed in the writer’s work as a schizophrenic existence or as a productive doubling of perspective. Movement between languages can thus reflect both the freedom associated with geographical mobility and the emotional price it entails. Reading Lind’s and Heym’s works within their postwar context, Steinitz proposes these authors as representative models, respectively, of translingualism as loss and fragmentation and translingualism as opportunity and mediation.TAMAR STEINITZ teaches English literature at Queen Mary and Goldsmiths colleges, University of London. $85.00/£55.00(s) September 2013978 1 57113 547 6, eISBN 978 1 57113 863 7224pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

“The Space of Words”Exile and Diaspora in the Works of Nelly SachsJENNIFER HOYER

In this volume Jennifer Hoyer offers a new evaluation of one of the most significant Holocaust poets, Nelly Sachs. Sachs’s conception of language as a landscape has long been understood by critics as an exilic ersatz Heimat for the lost

German homeland, a reading that is based entirely on Sachs’s postwar poems. Through close readings of the poet’s largely unanalyzed prewar works as well as the poet’s postwar poems, Hoyer suggests that Sachs’s conception of language and words as landscape is best understood as a diasporic landscape of constant wandering.JENNIFER HOYER is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Arkansas.$85.00/£55.00(s) November 2013978 1 57113 551 3204pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture


20TH-CENTURY LITERATURE

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The Undiscover’d Country W.G. Sebald and the Poetics of TravelEdited by MARKUS ZISSELSBERGER

W.G. Sebald (1944-2001) is the most prominent and perhaps the most enigmatic German-language writer of recent decades. His innovative approach to writing brings to the fore concerns that are central to contemporary culture: the

relationship between memory, history, and trauma; the experience of exile and our relation to place; and the role of literature (and photography) in the remembrance of the past. This collection of essays places travel at the center of Sebald’s poetics, examining its various modalities in Sebald’s writing, such as walking, flying, and textual travel, their relationship to writing, reading, memory, and place, and the affinities between Sebald and other literary travelers.The complete list of contributors can be found at the title’s page on our website: www.camden-house.com

[D]estined to become a milestone of Sebald scholarship. GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW

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Violent Women in Print Representations in the West German Print Media of the 1960s and 1970sCLARE BIELBY

West Germany’s terrorist period of the 1970s is still a troubling and fascinating subject for Germans, not least because of the high proportion of women involved, most notoriously Ulrike Meinhof. The present study examines the West German

print media of the 1960s and 1970s, from the right-wing Bild to the left-leaning Der Spiegel to explore how violent women – both terrorists and others – were represented in image and text. This is the first book to explore print-media representations of German terrorism from an explicitly gendered perspective, and one of very few books in English to address the period in Germany at all, despite increasing interest in the UK and the US.CLARE BIELBY is Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Hull.$80.00/£55.00(s) November 2012978 1 57113 530 8, eISBN 978 1 57113 837 835 b/w illus.; 236pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Representing the “Good German” in Literature and Culture after 1945 Altruism and Moral AmbiguityEdited by PÓL O D O CHARTAIGH & CHRISTIANE SCHÖNFELD

After the Second World War, both the allied occupying powers and the nascent German authorities sought Germans whose record could serve as a counterpoint to the notion of Germans as evil, a search that has never really stopped. In

recent years, we have witnessed a burgeoning of cultural representations of this “other” kind of Third Reich citizen – the “good German” – as opposed to the committed Nazi or genocidal maniac. This volume of new essays explores postwar and recent representations of “good Germans” during the Third Reich, analyzing the logic of moral behavior, cultural and moral relativism, and social conformity found in them. It thus draws together discussions of the function and reception of “Good Germans” in Germany and abroad.CONTRIBUTORS: Eoin Bourke, Manuel Bragança, Maeve Cooke, Kevin De Ornellas, Sabine Egger, Joachim Fischer, Coman Hamilton, Jon Hughes, Karina von Lindeiner-Strásky, Alexandra Ludewig, Pól O Dochartaigh, Christiane Schönfeld, Matthias Uecker.$85.00/£55.00(s) April 2013978 1 57113 498 1, eISBN 978 1 57113 787 613 b/w illus.; 274pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Germans as Victims in the Literary Fiction of the Berlin Republic Edited by STUART TABERNER & KARINA BERGER

In recent years it has become much more acceptable in Germany to consider Germans as not only perpetrators of World War II, but victims of it. An explosion of literary fiction has accompanied this trend; most of the texts do not attempt to revise

German responsibility for the Holocaust but to balance victimhood and perpetration. This book of essays by leading scholars is the first in English to examine closely the full range of these texts.The complete list of contributors can be found at the title’s page on our website: www.camden-house.com

The volume adds support to the argument that the notion of “German victims” did not begin with the fall of the Berlin Wall. GERMAN QUARTERLY

$34.95/£19.99 December 2012978 1 57113 557 5, eISBN 978 1 57113 393 9268pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), PBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Reworking the German PastAdaptations in Film, the Arts, and Popular CultureEdited by SUSAN G. FIGGE & JENIFER K. WARD

Coming to terms with the past has been a preoccupation in German culture since the Second World War, and there has been a surge of interest in adaptation of literary works in recent years. Focusing on adaptation of twentieth-century German texts

from one medium to another and from one cultural moment to another, this volume combines the two areas of inquiry, showing that adaptation studies are particularly well suited for tracing Germany’s obsessive cultural engagement with its history.The complete list of contributors can be found at the title’s page on our website: www.camden-house.com

Alongside insightful analyses of German Vergangenheitsbewältigung, this volume offers new and exciting perspectives in the broader field of adaptation studies, firmly establishing adaptation’s value as a gauge of evolving historical discourses. YEAR’S WORK IN MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES

$34.95/£19.99 August 2013978 1 57113 565 0, eISBN 978 1 57113 444 84 b/w illus.; 294pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), PBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Writers and Politics in Germany, 1945-2008 STUART PARKES

The German unification posed a major challenge to writers in both East and West. Considering the continuing East/West division and the changing attitudes to the Nazi past, this book asks whether the intellectual climate has swung to

the right and whether political involvement is less important for younger writers who see the Federal Republic as a “normal” democratic state.STUART PARKES is Emeritus Professor of German from the University of Sunderland (UK).An amazing accomplishment in a new, standard work on a difficult topic […] Judicious in its balanced assessments of political positions […] It is at the same time well written and rich in content […] Exemplary. GERMANISTIK

[P]rovides an excellent overview of the relationship between literature and politics over more than 60 years in post-war Germany. JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN STUDIES



CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE

Religion in Contemporary German Drama Botho Strau, George Tabori, Werner Fritsch, and Lukas BärfussSINÉAD CROWE

Despite claims that the twenty-first century has seen a sudden “return” of religion to the German stage, religious themes, forms, and motifs have been a topic and a source of inspiration for German dramatists for several decades. Focusing on

works by four major dramatists, this book examines how, why, and to what effect religion is invoked in German drama since the late 1970s. It asks whether contemporary German drama succeeds in developing religious insights or is at most quasi-religious, exploiting religious signs for aesthetic, theatrical, or dramaturgical ends. It considers the performative and historical intersections between drama and religion, contextualizing the playwrights’ treatments of religion by exploring how they lean on or repudiate the traditions of modern European dramas.SINÉAD CROWE is a Teaching Assistant at the University of Limerick, Ireland.$75.00/£50.00(s) March 2013978 1 57113 549 0, eISBN 978 1 57113 844 6178pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Emerging German- Language Novelists of the Twenty-First Century Edited by LYN MARVEN & STUART TABERNER

After the international success of authors such as Schlink, Beyer, and Brussig in the 1990s, an impressive number of new German-language novelists are making a significant impact. Some have already achieved international recognition; others

have only begun to attract attention. This volume devotes one essay each to these writers and their major works; it also includes translated excerpts from works by Vladimir Vertlib and Clemens Meyer.The complete list of contributors can be found at the title’s page on our website: www.camden-house.com

[W]ill undoubtedly win new readers to exciting, innovative voices in twenty-first century German-language literature. JOURNAL OF AUSTRIAN STUDIES

[P]rovide[s] a neat snapshot of a decade’s worth of literary productivity in Germany. GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW


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Ghetto Voices in Contemporary German CultureTextscapes, Filmscapes, SoundscapesMARIA STEHLE

Accounts of how Germany has changed since unification often portray the Berlin Republic as a new Germany that has entered the new millennium as a peaceful, worldly, and cautiously proud nation. Closer inspection, however, reveals tensions

between such views and the realities of a country that continues to struggle with racism, provincialism, and fear of the Other. This book illuminates tensions and transformations in today’s German cities by following the metaphor of the ghetto in literary works from the 1990s by Feridun Zaimoglu, in German ghettocentric films from the late 1990s and the early 2000s, and in hip-hop and rap music of the same periods.MARIA STEHLE is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.$75.00/£50.00(s) November 2012978 1 57113 544 56 b/w illus.; 220pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

HouseboundSelfhood and Domestic Space in Contemporary German FictionMONIKA SHAFI

The house, the place where we try to be at home, can be regarded as the key space in which we construct our selfhood and belonging. A host of contemporary German narratives featuring houses highlight this relationship

between selfhood and domestic space. Housebound analyzes the shelters – often highly ambivalent spaces – that writers such as Katharina Hacker, Arno Geiger, Walter Kappacher, Monika Maron, Jenny Erpenbeck, Judith Hermann, Barbara Honigmann, and Emine Sevgi özdamar build in their texts and what these reveal about contemporary selfhood in Germany and its relationship to the social world.MONIKA SHAFI is the Elias Ahuja Professor of German and Chair of the Department of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Delaware.German-language writers have consistently used the home […] as an anchor of metaphor for the emotional and narrative frame for literature. […] What emerges [from this study] is a surprisingly profound understanding of contemporary German and Austrian values. CHOICE

$75.00/£50.00(s) October 2012978 1 57113 524 7238pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Nomadic Ethics in Contemporary Women’s Writing in GermanStrange SubjectsEMILY JEREMIAH

How can postmodern subjectivity be ethically conceived? What can literature contribute to this project? What role do “gender” and “nation” play in the construction of contemporary identities? Nomadic Ethics broaches these

questions, exploring the work of five women writers who live outside of the German-speaking countries or thematize a move away from them: Birgit Vanderbeke, Dorothea Grünzweig, Antje Rávic Strubel, Anna Mitgutsch, and Barbara Honigmann. It draws on work by Rosi Braidotti, Sara Ahmed, and Judith Butler to develop a nomadic ethics, and examines how the writers under discussion conceptualize contemporary German and Austrian identities – especially but not only gender identities – in instructive ways. The book engages with a number of critical issues in contemporary German studies: globalization; green thought; questions of gender and sexuality; East (and West) German identities; Austrianness; the postmemory of the Holocaust; and Jewishness. In this way, Nomadic Ethics offers a valuable contribution to debates about the nature of German studies itself, as well as insightful readings of the individual authors and texts concerned.EMILY JEREMIAH is Lecturer in German, Royal Holloway, University of London.$75.00/£50.00(s) December 2012978 1 57113 536 0232pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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EDINBURGH GERMAN YEARBOOK

Ethical Approaches in Modern German-Language Literature and Culture Edinburgh German Yearbook 7Edited by FRAUKE MAT THES & EMILY JEREMIAH There has been an “ethical turn” in the literature, culture, and theory of recent years, a period which has seen the decline of Western hegemony, the worsening of the European economic crisis, and an increase in global instability. Building on a long tradition of ethics in German-language literature and culture, this volume examines a number of contemporary literary works that deal with political and societal issues, questions of age, generation, and memory, religion (especially Islam), and gender. Moving beyond ethical questions in literary and essayistic texts and in visual culture, this volume also explores the ethics of reading and criticism.FRAUKE MATTHES is Lecturer in German at the University of Edinburgh. EMILY JEREMIAH is Senior Lecturer in German at Royal Holloway, University of London.$75.00/£50.00(s) November 2013978 1 57113 550 6224pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBEdinburgh German Yearbook

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Sadness and Melancholy in German-Language Literature and Culture Edinburgh German Yearbook 6Edited by MARY COSGROVE & ANNA RICHARDS

$75.00/£50.00(s) December 2012978 1 57113 528 5, eISBN 978 1 57113 842 2

198pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBEdinburgh German Yearbook

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Heights of Reflection Mountains in the German Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First CenturyEdited by SEAN IRETON & CAROLINE SCHAUMANN

[Gives] extensive, insightful treatment to shifting discursive, cultural, and political valences of mountains in the German imagination […] to be praised not only for being the first to treat the cultural meaning of mountains so extensively, but also for tracing

their meanings in such variety and depth. CHOICE

$75.00/£50.00(s) June 2012978 1 57113 502 5, eISBN 978 1 57113 826 215 b/w illus.; 406pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

NEXUS

Nexus 2Essays in German Jewish StudiesEdited by WILLIAM COLLINS D ONAHUE & MARTHA B. HELFER

Nexus is the official publication of the biennial Duke German Jewish Studies Workshop, North America’s first ongoing forum for German Jewish studies. It publishes innovative research and introduces new directions in the field, analyzing the

development and definition of the field itself and considering German Jewish Studies’ place within the disciplines. It also examines issues of pedagogy and programming. Nexus 2 presents a special forum section on the controversial German Jewish religious historian Hans Joachim Schoeps (1909-1980), as well as cutting-edge essays that highlight important new developments in the field of German Jewish Studies.This series can be expected to become a platform for important research and debates on German Jewish literary and cultural studies […] a series to which both readers and libraries would be well advised to subscribe. JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES

$75.00/£50.00(s) November 2013978 1 57113 563 6256pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBNexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies

VOLUM E 1

Nexus 1 Essays in German Jewish StudiesEdited by WILLIAM COLLINS D ONAHUE & MARTHA B. HELFER

$75.00/£50.00(s) November 2011978 1 57113 501 8, eISBN 978 1 57113 760 98 b/w illus.; 256pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBNexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies

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Literary Studies and the Pursuits of Reading Edited by ERIC D OWNING, JONATHAN M. HESS & RICHARD V. BENSON

This collection of new essays puts the study of reading back at center stage, considering current theory on reading, emotion, and affect alongside historical investigations into cultural practices of reading as they have changed over time.

The complete list of contributors can be found at the title’s page on our website: www.camden-house.com

The essays are rigorous, lively, and thought provoking. CHOICE

$75.00/£50.00(s) September 2012978 1 57113 431 8, eISBN 978 1 58046 778 017 b/w illus.; 306pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Imagining Germany Imagining AsiaEssays in Asian-German StudiesEdited by VERONIKA FUECHTNER & MARY RHIEL

Imagining Germany Imagining Asia demonstrates that from the Enlightenment onwards Asia served as a foil for German fantasies of a cohesive national culture. Its essays argue that the relation between an imagined Germany and an imagined Asia

defies the idea of a one-way influence, since cultural transfers and synergies are multidirectional and mutually perpetuating. This volume covers a wide range of topics and genres and will attract readers interested in German, Asian, colonial, postcolonial, and transnational studies.CONTRIBUTORS: Sai Bhatawadekar, Petra Fachinger, Randall Halle, Hoi-eun Kim, David Kim, Kamakshi Murti, Perry Myers, Qinna Shen, Quinn Slobodian, Chunjie Zhang.VERONIKA FUECHTNER is Associate Professor of German at Dartmouth College. MARY RHIEL is Associate Professor of German at the University of New Hampshire. $90.00/£60.00(s) October 2013978 1 57113 548 313 b/w illus.; 288pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Deploying Orientalism in European Culture and HistoryEdited by JAMES HODKINSON, JOHN WALKER, SHASWATI MAZUMDAR & JOHANNES FEICHTINGERThe concept and study of Orientalism in Western culture gained a changed understanding from Edward Said’s now iconic 1978 book Orientalism. Especially in Germany, however, recent debate has moved beyond Said’s definition of the phenomenon, highlighting the multiple forms of Orientalism within the “West” and the manifold presence of the “East” in the Western world. This volume focuses on the deployment – here the cultural, philosophical, political, and scholarly uses – of “Orientalism” in the German-speaking and central European worlds from the late eighteenth century to the present day.CONTRIBUTORS: Anil Bhatti, Michael Dusche, Johannes Feichtinger, Angelika Führich, Johann Heiss, James Hodkinson, Kerstin Jobst, Jon Keune, Todd Kontje, Margit Koves, Sarah Lemmen, Shaswati Mazumdar, Jyoti Sabarwal, Ulrike Stamm, John Walker.$90.00/£60.00(s) December 2013978 1 57113 575 9312pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture


FILM / PHILOSOPHY

Generic Histories of German CinemaGenre and Its DeviationsEdited by JAIMEY FISHEROver the last few decades, the field of film studies has seen a rise in approaches oriented toward genre: studies that look at thematic, narrative, and stylistic similarities between films, contextualizing them within culture and society. Although there now exists a large body of genre-based scholarship on international film, German film studies has largely ignored the importance of genre. Even as the last several years have witnessed increasing scholarly interest in popular cinema from Germany, very few works have substantively engaged with genre theory. Generic Histories offers a fresh approach, tracing a series of key genres – including horror, science fiction, the thriller, Heimat films, and war films – over the course of German cinema history. It also addresses detective films, comedies, policiers, and romances that deliberately localize global genres within Germany – a form of transnationalism frequently neglected. This focus on genre and history encourages rethinking of the traditional opposition (and hierarchy) between art and popular cinema that has informed German film studies. In these ways, the volume foregrounds genre theory’s potential for rethinking film history as well as cultural history more broadly. CONTRIBUTORS: Marco Abel, Nora M. Alter, Antje Ascheid, Hester Baer, Steve Choe, Paul Cooke, Jaimey Fisher, Gerd Gemünden, Sascha Gerhards, Lutz Koepnick, Eric Rentschler, Kris Vander Lugt.$95.00/£60.00(s) October 2013978 1 57113 570 460 b/w illus.; 310pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBScreen Cultures: German Film and the Visual

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A New History of German Cinema Edited by JENNIFER M. KAPCZYNSKI & MICHAEL D. RICHARDSON

A dynamic, event-centered exploration of the hundred-year history of German-language film.JENNIFER KAPCZYNSKI is Associate Professor of German at Washington University, St. Louis, and MICHAEL RICHARDSON is Associate Professor of German at

Ithaca College.Film Book of the Year, 2012. I have decided in favor of [this] American publication on German film because I find its perspective on our film history particularly richly detailed, thought provoking, and original. HANS-HELMUT PRINZLER , WWW.HHPRINZLER .DE

$115.00/£60.00(s) September 2012978 1 57113 490 5, eISBN 978 1 57113 781 454 b/w illus.; 692pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBScreen Cultures: German Film and the Visual

The Differentiation of ModernismPostwar German Media ArtsLARSON POWELL

After 1945, the purist “medium specificity” of high modernism increasingly yielded to the mixed forms of intermediality. Theodor Adorno dubbed this development a “Verfransung,” or “fraying of boundaries,” between the arts. The Differentiation of Modernism

analyzes this phenomenon in German electronic media arts of the late modernist period (1945-1980): in radio plays, film music, and electronic music. The first part of the book begins with a chapter on Adorno’s theory of radio as an instrument of democratization, going on to analyze the relationship of the Hörspiel or radio play to electronic music. In the second part, on film music, a chapter on Adorno and Eisler’s Composing for the Film sets the parameters for chapters on the film Das Mädchen Rosemarie (1957) and on the music films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet. The third part examines the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen and its relationship to radio, abstract painting, recording technology, and theatrical happenings. The book’s central notion of the “differentiation of culture” suggests that late modernism, unlike high modernism, accepted the contingency of modern mass-media driven society and sought to find new forms for it.LARSON POWELL is Associate Professor of German at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He is the author of The Technological Unconscious in German Modernist Literature (Camden House, 2008).$85.00/£55.00(s) December 2013978 1 57113 572 81 b/w illus.; 256pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Post-Wall German Cinema and National History Utopianism and DissentMARY-ELIZABETH O’BRIEN

O’Brien argues that utopianism and dissent, as practiced in both German states, have emerged as a model for imagining German identity in the present… [H]er close readings of 12 significant films are well written and accessible, providing a convincing

overview of how contemporary cinema engages with Germany’s contested past. CHOICE

MARY-ELIZABETH O’BRIEN is Professor of German and The Courtney and Steven Ross Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies at Skidmore College.$85.00/£55.00(s) May 2012978 1 57113 522 3, eISBN 978 1 57113 825 516 b/w illus.; 348pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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A Companion to Friedrich Nietzsche Life and WorksEdited by PAUL BISHOP

Nietzsche’s influence on intellectual life today is arguably as great as ever, as attested by the many societies, journals, and websites, articles, collections, and monographs. This Companion offers new essays from top Nietzsche scholars, emphasizing

the interrelatedness of his life and thought, eschewing superficial biography but taking seriously his claim that great philosophy is “self-confession… and a kind of unintended and unremarked memoir.”The complete list of contributors can be found at the title’s page on our website: www.camden-house.com

[U]nusually rich in substance, form, and contextualization. […] Nietzsche has exerted enormous influence over modern thought […] and this edited volume does an excellent job of canvassing the man and his paradigm-shifting ideas. CHOICE

$90.00/£60.00(s) July 2012978 1 57113 327 4, eISBN 978 1 57113 773 9462pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Modern German Thought from Kant to HabermasAn Annotated German-Language ReaderEdited by HENK DE BERG & DUNCAN LARGE

German-language thinkers such as Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud are central to modernity, yet the fact that their English-speaking reception has depended on translations has hampered full engagement with their rhetorical and philosophical complexity.

This volume, the first of its kind, is a response to this situation. Following a general introduction, it offers extracts – in the original German – from sixteen major philosophical texts, introduced and annotated in English. For students, scholars, and cultural historians the book represents a new way into a succession of thinkers who have defined modern philosophy and thus remain of crucial relevance today.HENK DE BERG is Professor of German at the University of Sheffield. DUNCAN LARGE is Professor of German at Swansea University.Available in HB & PB:HB: $85.00/£55.00(s) October 2012978 1 57113 545 2, eISBN 978 1 57113 354 0PB: $39.95/£17.99 October 2012978 1 57113 354 0, eISBN 978 1 57113 770 8408pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture


MUSIC / INFORMATION

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Reading Mahler German Culture and Jewish Identity in Fin-de-Siècle CARL NIEKERK

Today Gustav Mahler’s music is more popular than ever, yet few are aware of its roots in German literary and cultural history in general, and in fin-de-siècle Viennese culture in particular. Reading Mahler remedies this deficit by helping audiences,

critics, and those interested in musical and cultural history understand literary and cultural influences on Mahler’s music and thinking that may have been self-evident to middle-class Viennese a hundred years ago but are now much more obscure. It shows that Mahler’s oeuvre, despite its reliance on texts and images from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is far more indebted to fin-de-siècle modernism and to an eclectic, proto-avantgardist agenda than has been previously realized.CARL NIEKERK is Professor in the Department of German, the Program in Comparative and World Literature, and the Program in Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[A] compelling book, an example of interdisciplinary scholarship at its finest. It is a major contribution to our understanding of this pivotal epoch in Western civilization and represents an invaluable resource for any future research into the period as a whole. MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW


History in Mighty SoundsMusical Constructions of German National Identity, 1848 -1914BARBARA EICHNER

Music played a central role in the self-conception of many Germans between the 1848 Revolution and the First World War. Although German music was widely held to be ‘universal’ and thus apolitical, it participated in the historicist project of

shaping the nation’s future by calling on the national heritage. A wide variety of musical genres, ranging from pre- and post-Wagnerian opera to popular choruses to symphonic poems, provides for a new perspective on how national identities were constructed, shaped and celebrated in and through music. BARBARA EICHNER is Senior Lecturer in Musicology at Oxford Brookes University. $95.00/£55.00(s) October 2012978 1 84383 754 114 b/w illus.; 310pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBMusic in Society and Culture

Friedelind WagnerRichard Wagner’s Rebellious GranddaughterEVA RIEGER Translated by CHRIS WALTON

She was not the ‘black sheep’ of her family, as often claimed, but a heroic rebel. Friedelind Wagner (1918-1991), Richard Wagner’s independent-minded granddaughter, daughter of Siegfried and Winifred Wagner, despised her mother’s close liaison

with Adolf Hitler and was the only member of the Wagner clan who fled Germany in protest. Leaving wartime Germany for England, she soon faced internment before obtaining an exit visa to the United States with the help of Arturo Toscanini. Upon arriving in New York she published against the Nazis, wrote an autobiography, and became friends with many other prominent emigrants. Returning to Germany in 1953 she found herself manoeuvred out of any role in the Bayreuth Festival management. Eva Rieger has here written the first-ever biography of Richard Wagner’s talented, artistic granddaughter who fought against Hitler’s Germany but achieved no personal success for her troubles.EVA RIEGER is a feminist musicologist and author of many books on music.$50.00/£30.00(s) October 2013978 1 84383 864 726 b/w illus.; 352pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HB

Rethinking Hanslick Music, Formalism, and ExpressionEdited by NICOLE GRIMES, SIOBHÁN D ONOVAN & WOLFGANG MAR X

Rethinking Hanslick introduces a paradigm shift into the study of this eminent Austro-German music critic and aesthetician by exploring the political, cultural, social, and musical issues that may have influenced Hanslick’s aesthetic judgement. This

pathbreaking book investigates how Hanslick recorded aspects of the changing social context of fin-de-siècle Vienna; probes the nature of the relationship between Hanslick’s critical and aesthetic writings; examines the extent to which Hanslick extolled expression in music, and traces the legacy of German philosophy in his output. DR NICOLE GRIMES is a Marie Curie Fellow at University College Dublin (UCD), and the University of California, Irvine. DR SIOBHÁN DONOVAN is a College Lecturer at the School of Languages and Literatures, UCD. DR WOLFGANG MARX is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Music, UCD.$90.00/£60.00(s) March 2013978 1 58046 432 1, eISBN 978 1 58046 795 74 b/w illus.; 374pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HBEastman Studies in Music

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