Forty years ago, Timothy Leary's suggestion that hippies read Hermann Hesse while 'turning on' st...

Although it was never completed, Georg Büchner's drama fragment Woyzeck occupies a pivotal place ...

This dynamic, event-centered anthology offers a new understanding of the hundred-year history of ...

German-language thinkers such as Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud are central to modernity. Yet t...

The modern era is marked by the separate life of two cultures of understanding, one derived from ...

The communist secret police services of Central and Eastern Europe kept detailed records not only...

Ali and Nino is a novel published in German in 1937 under the alias 'Kurban Said,' a love story b...

When it broke out in 1906, the scandal surrounding Prince Philipp Eulenburg, closest confidant of...

It is by now almost a cliché that the flight and expulsion of Germans from east-central Europe at...

Bertolt Brecht continues to be regarded as one of the twentieth century's most controversial and ...

Critics often claim that the twenty-first century has seen a sudden 'return' of religion to the G...

Maria von Trapp, watching the final scene of The Sound of Music for the first time as 'her' famil...

From modest colonial beginnings, literature in Canada has arrived at the center stage of world li...

The causes of the First World War have been studied and debated for many decades, yet cultural hi...

The twenty-first century has seen a renewed surge of cultural and critical interest in the works ...

This book covers the whole of Bergman's production, but concentrates in particular on close analy...

Rilke's great cycle of ten elegies, perhaps his most profound poetic achievement, had its incepti...

What does it mean to 'become woman' in the context of neoliberalism and postfeminism? What is the...

In the German-speaking world there has been a new wave - intensifying since 2007 - of autobiograp...

A guide through the many aspects of Wenders's groundbreaking film, employing archival research to...

This monumental study seeks the roots of great literary works and the processes by which they aro...

This volume of new essays by leading scholars treats a representative sampling of German realist ...

The late nineteenth century was a crucial period for the development of German fiction. Political...

This dynamic, event-centered anthology offers a new understanding of the hundred-year history of ...

In a 1798 novel by Sophie von La Roche, a European woman swims across a cold North American lake ...

When John Updike died in 2009, tributes from the literary establishment were immediate and fulsom...

Since the death of Thomas Bernhard in 1989, the literary reputation of this complex and unique wr...

Heinrich Mann, once counted among the most important literary figures in Germany, is known to mos...

A panel of authors, critics, and academics convened by the Literaturhaus in Munich in 1999 voted ...

Beginning in the 1890s, reaching its first full realization by modernist writers in the 1920s, an...

Coming to terms with the past has been a preoccupation within German culture and German Studies s...

Classical music in the German Democratic Republic is commonly viewed as having functioned as an i...

The gaze, understood as a way of looking at others that involves contemplation and the operation ...

In recent years, historians have revealed the many ways in which German women supported National ...

The current blockbuster German TV series Babylon Berlin introduces viewers to the tumultuous peri...

This first book in English on Meisel-Hess, an early feminist voice in modernist discourse, illust...

Nineteenth-century German literature is seldom seen as rich in humor and irony, and women's writi...

Undoubtedly the best-selling author of his day and well loved by readers in succeeding generation...

The aim of this book is to explore 'that post-Nietzschean archipelago of German literature which ...

When students and critics of the novel speak of German artist-novels and Bildungsromane, they men...

For centuries, Europe's eastward gaze has been wary if not hostile. Medieval man envisaged grotes...

Mountains have always stirred the human imagination, playing a crucial role in the cultural evolu...

The work of the groundbreaking writers and artists of German Romanticism - including the writers ...

Ever since it was first published in 1999, Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee's novel Disgrace has prov...

Founded in 1977 as the publication organ for the Fifteenth-CenturySymposium, Fifteenth-Century St...

Austria was not the only European country whose old order disintegrated in the early twentieth ce...

James Baldwin is a widely taught and anthologized author. His short story 'Sonny's Blues' remains...

Never has a mountain occupied the German imagination longer and more thoroughly than Nanga Parbat...