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Affecting Grace examines the importance of Shakespeare’s poetry and plays within German literature and thought after 1750 – including its relationship to German classicism, which favoured unreflecte……続きを見る

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselvesーand each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, ……続きを見る

Since Germany became a colonial power relatively late, postcolonial theorists and histories of colonialism have thus far paid little attention to it. Uncovering Germany’s colonial legacy and imagina……続きを見る

A look at how the discussions, debates, and controversies in Germany about youth and reeducation after World War II helped Germans come to terms with their Nazi past, negotiate Allied occupation, an……続きを見る

An “elegant translation” of Rilke’s writings on sculptor Auguste Rodin that “offers a fresh look at an unlikely mentorship” and two extraordinary artists (The New York Times Book Review). Sculptor A……続きを見る

In this extraordinary and unpredictable cross-section of the work of one of the most influential free spirits of German letters, Peter Wortsman captures the breathlessness and power of Heinrich von ……続きを見る

A study of the lure of Italy in German culture from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. 続きを見る

On the night of September 22, 1912, Franz Kafka wrote his story "The Judgment," which came out of him "like a regular birth." This act of creation struck him as an unmistakable sign of his literary ……続きを見る

The riveting story of the Germania and its incarnations and exploitations through the ages. The pope wanted it, Montesquieu used it, and the Nazis pilfered an Italian noble's villa to get it: the Ge……続きを見る

FEATURES: • Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations • A link of a FREE audio book to download at the end of the book • Active Table of Contents for an easy navigation within the book • Manuall……続きを見る

A new perspective on the principal developments in translation practice and theory in Germany during the Age of Goethe with emphasis on the work of Goethe, Hölderlin, and Kleist as translators. 続きを見る

“What a strange invention marriage is!” wrote Kierkegaard. “Is it the expression of that inexplicable erotic sentiment, that concordant elective affinity of souls, or is it a duty or a partnership .……続きを見る

Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, and Siegfried. Parsifal. Tristan und Isolde. Both revered and reviled, Richard Wagner conceived some of the nineteenth century’s most influential operasーand created some……続きを見る

Revolting Families places the literary depiction of familial and intimate relations in 1960s West Germany against the backdrop of public discourse on the political significance of the private sphere……続きを見る

German writers, from Luther and Goethe to Heine, Brecht, and Günter Grass, have had a profound influence on the modern world. This Very Short Introduction presents an engrossing tour of the course o……続きを見る

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is Nietzsche's most problematic text. There appears to be no thematic connection between its four Parts and numerous sections. To make it even worse, the book contains a numbe……続きを見る

This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays examining Goethe’s Faust and its derivatives in European, North American, and South American cultural contexts. It takes both a canonic and arc……続きを見る

There are few literary authors in whose work animals and other creatures play as prominent a role as they do in Franz Kafka's. Exploring multiple dimensions of Kafka's incorporation of nonhuman crea……続きを見る

Germaine de Staël and German Women: Gender and Literary Authority (1800-1850) investigates Staël's significance as an icon of female artistic genius and political engagement for two generations of G……続きを見る

A century before psychoanalytic discourse codified a scientific language to describe the landscape of the mind, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe explored the paradoxes of an interior self separate from a ……続きを見る

Braka, la vieille bohémienne, enveloppée dans la guenille rouge qui lui servait de manteau, marmottait son troisième  pater devant la fenêtre, et depuis longtemps d&e……続きを見る

Work of criticism focused on Goethe's Faust, in the original German. According to Wikipedia: "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 - 22 March 1832) was a German writer. George Eliot called him……続きを見る

JEAN PAUL The Life of Jean Paul. By Benjamin W. Wells. Quintus Fixlein's Wedding. Translated by Thomas Carlyle. Rome. Translated by C. T. Brooks. The Opening of the Will. Translated by Frances H. Ki……続きを見る

Venez, illusions !.... au matin de ma vie, Que j’aimais à fixer votre inconstant essor ! Le soir vient, et pourtant c’est une douce envie, C’est une vanité qui me séduit encor. ……続きを見る

Heinrich Mann (* 27. März 1871 in Lübeck; † 11. März 1950 in Santa Monica, Kalifornien) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller und der ältere Bruder von Thomas Mann, in dessen Schatten er stets stand. Ab ……続きを見る

Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse ( 1830-1914) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller. Seine nach eigenem Modell geschriebenen Novellen machten ihn bekannt. 1910 wurde er als erster deutscher Autor belletristi……続きを見る

Dieser Band zeigt das komplexe und relativ intensive Verhältnis Stefan Zweigs zum Judentum und zum Zionismus vom Beginn seiner Karriere an. Einige seiner wichtigsten Schriften und auch Teile von bed……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Grundlage der gesamten Wissenschaftslehre" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Die Grundlage der gesamten Wi……続きを見る

Lassen Sie sich in eine kafkaeske Welt entführen! Lesen Sie alle Kafka-Klassiker und Geschichten aus jeder Schaffensphase INHALT Erstes Kapitel des Buches "Richard und Samuel" Der Heizer :……続きを見る

Hugo von Hofmannsthals "Rosenkavalier" wurde 1911 in Dresden uraufgeführt. Freuds Hauptwerk, "Die Traumdeutung", erschien 1900 in Wien. Hofmannsthal gibt vor, eine Tradition fortzusetzen, die er in ……続きを見る