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This is Camden House’s general German studies series, in which numerous titles have appeared since the early 1980s. It welcomes a broad range of topics and approaches - from traditional, narrowly literary studies on one hand to forays into cultural studies and cultural history on the other, from approaches based on traditional close reading to those emphasizing theory, from feminist to postmodern to multicultural. All periods of German culture and literature are fair game, from medieval Spielmannsepen to currently emerging writers of the twenty-first century.

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253 results in Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Transformation and Education in the Literature of the GDR
  • Volume 206
  • Jean E. Conacher
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    25 March 2020
    Print publication:
    22 January 2020
  • This book explores how writers adhered to, played with, and subverted the formulaic precepts of educational transformation in the German Democratic Republic.

What Remains
  • The Post-Holocaust Archive in German Memory Culture
  • Dora Osborne
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 March 2020
    Print publication:
    27 February 2020
  • A study of the archival turn in contemporary German memory culture, drawing on recent memorials, documentaries, and prose narratives that engage with the material legacy of National Socialism and the Holocaust.

The Gentle Apocalypse
  • Truth and Meaning in the Poetry of Georg Trakl
  • Richard Millington
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 March 2020
    Print publication:
    27 February 2020
  • Through close readings of poems covering the span of Georg Trakl's lyric output, this study traces the evolution of his strangely mild and beautiful vision of the end of days.

The End-Times in Medieval German Literature

The Faust Tales of Christoph Rosshirt
  • A Critical Edition with Commentary
  • Volume 203
  • J. M. van der Laan
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    03 September 2019
    Print publication:
    03 June 2019
  • The first cohesive Faust narrative in facsimile form, German transcription, and (first-ever) English translation, plus a history of Faust illustrations and an assessment of Faust's historicity.

Fontane in the Twenty-First Century
  • Volume 201
  • Edited by John B. Lyon, Brian Tucker
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    31 August 2019
    Print publication:
    24 May 2019
  • Assesses the relevance of the works of Fontane, perhaps the foremost German novelist between Goethe and Mann, for the twenty-first century.

The Communicative Event in the Works of Günter Grass
  • Stages of Speech, 1959–2015
  • Volume 186
  • Nicole A. Thesz
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    31 August 2019
    Print publication:
    01 February 2018
  • A major contribution to Grass scholarship that looks at his career as a whole and identifies four phases or stages of his writing in terms of communicative strategy and style.

Mystical Islam and Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary German Literature
  • Openness to Alterity
  • Volume 185
  • Joseph Twist
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    23 August 2019
    Print publication:
    15 January 2018
  • Highlights the spirituality and cosmopolitanism of four contemporary German Muslim writers, showing that they undermine the "clash-of-civilizations" narrative and open up space for new ways of coexisting.

Writing to Change the World
  • Anna Seghers, Authorship, and International Solidarity in the Twentieth Century
  • Volume 187
  • Marike Janzen
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    23 August 2019
    Print publication:
    01 February 2018
  • This book begins to recover the global history of solidarity as a principle of authorship, taking Anna Seghers (1900-1983) as an exemplar and reading her alongside prominent contemporaries: Brecht, Carpentier, and Spivak.

Brecht, Turkish Theater, and Turkish-German Literature
  • Reception, Adaptation, and Innovation after 1960
  • Volume 188
  • Ela E. Gezen
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    19 July 2019
    Print publication:
    01 April 2018
  • Uncovers the central role of Brecht reception in Turkish theater and Turkish-German literature, examining interactions between Turkish and German writers, texts, and contexts.

Bernhard Heisig and the Fight for Modern Art in East Germany
  • Volume 194
  • April A. Eisman
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    14 June 2019
    Print publication:
    15 September 2018
  • One of the first books to extend the currently burgeoning scholarship on East Germany to the visual arts, revealing that painting, like literature and film, was a space of contestation.

Herder's Essay on Being
  • A Translation and Critical Approaches
  • Volume 198
  • Edited by John K. Noyes
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    13 April 2019
    Print publication:
    01 December 2018
  • Presents the first English translation of Herder's foundational essay along with critical responses to it by today's leading Herder scholars.

Dimensions of Storytelling in German Literature and Beyond
  • "For Once Telling it All from the Beginning"
  • Volume 197
  • Edited by Kristy R. Boney, Jennifer Marston William
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    12 April 2019
    Print publication:
    01 December 2018
  • Explores the storytelling of Anna Seghers and other 20th-century writers who faced the tensions between aesthetics and politically conscious writing, between conformity and resistance.

Kafka after Kafka
  • Dialogical Engagement with His Works from the Holocaust to Postmodernism
  • Volume 195
  • Edited by Iris Bruce, Mark H. Gelber
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    12 April 2019
    Print publication:
    08 February 2019
  • New essays providing an up-to-date picture of the engagement of artists, philosophers, and critics with Kafka's work.

Transatlantic German Studies
  • Testimonies to the Profession
  • Volume 193
  • Edited by Paul Michael Lützeler, Peter Höyng
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    14 February 2019
    Print publication:
    28 September 2018
  • The prominent scholar-contributors to this volume share their experiences developing the field of US German Studies and their thoughts on literature and interdisciplinarity, pluralism and diversity, and transatlantic dialogue.

And the Shark, He Has Teeth
  • A Theater Producer's Notes
  • Ernst Josef Aufricht, Benjamin Bloch, Marc Silberman
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    07 September 2018
    Print publication:
    01 June 2018
  • This is the first English translation of the memoirs of the great German-Jewish theater producer Ernst Josef Aufricht (in German 1966, rpt. 1998). The title alludes to Brecht and Weill's Threepenny Opera, the premiere of which was produced by Aufricht at his Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin in 1928, launching Brecht and Weill to worldwide fame. Aufricht's book is most notable for its insider's account of the Berlin theater scene from the great days of the late 1920s and early 30s. Its range, however, from school years and the military to his time as an actor and then producer, the rise of the Nazis, and finally long years of exile in France and America, gives the picture of a complex individual with a talent for survival and a winningly understated sense of humor. The book will be of interest to an academic audience, but its reflections on a period of momentous artistic and political events will expand its appeal to a wider group: those interested in twentieth-century German history, music and theater history, as well as the general reader. Benjamin Bloch is a clinical psychologist who grew up speaking German at home with his native German father and studied German and English Literature at Oberlin College. Marc Silberman is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin.

Suicide in East German Literature
  • Fiction, Rhetoric, and the Self-Destruction of Literary Heritage
  • Robert Blankenship
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    01 September 2018
    Print publication:
    31 August 2017
  • The many fictional suicides in the literature of the German Democratic Republic have been greatly misunderstood. The common assumption is that authoritarian oppression in East Germany led to an anomalous abundance of real suicides, so that fictional suicides in GDR literature constitute a simple, realistic reflection of East German society. Robert Blankenship challenges this assumption by providing both a history of suicide in GDR literature and close readings of individual texts, revealing that suicides in GDR literature, rather than simply reflecting historical suicides, contain rich literary attributes such as intertextuality, haunting, epistolarity, and unorthodox narrative strategies. Such literariness offered subversive potential beyond suggesting that real people killed themselves in a communist country. This first book-length study of fictional suicides in East German literature provides insight into the complex and dynamic rhetoric of the GDR. Blankenship's underlying claim is that GDR literature ought to be read as literature, with literary methodology, not despite the country's politically and rhetorically charged nature, but precisely because of it. Suicide in East German Literature will be of interest to scholars of GDR literature, humanities-oriented scholars of suicide, and those who are interested in the complex relationship between literature and history.Robert Blankenship is Assistant Professor of German at California State University, Long Beach.

The Anxiety of Autonomy and the Aesthetics of German Orientalism
  • Nicholas A. Germana
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    25 August 2018
    Print publication:
    30 September 2017
  • German orientalism has been understood, variously, as a form of latent colonialism, as a quest for academic hegemony in Europe, and as an effort to diagnose and treat the ills of modern Western culture. Nicholas Germana identifies a different impetus for orientalism in German thought, seeing it as an effort to come to grips with the Other within German society at the turn of the nineteenth century and within the dynamics of subjectivity itself.Drawing largely on work by feminist scholars, the book uncovers an anxiety at the core of Kantian and post-Kantian thought, thus shedding light on its derogation (or elevation) of Oriental cultures. Kant's philosophy of freedom is a construction of modern, Western masculinity. Reason, which alone can make freedom possible, subverts and orders chaotic nature and protects the rational subject from the enervating influences of the senses and the imagination. The feminized, sexually charged Orient is a threat to the historical achievement of Western male rationality.Germana's book emphasizes aesthetics in the German orientalist discourse, a subject that has received little attention to date. In this tradition of German thought, aesthetics became a form of spiritual anthropology, ordering and classifying societies, races, and genders in terms of their ability to master the senses and the imagination, forces that undermine rational autonomy, the very source of human (i.e., masculine) dignity.Nicholas A. Germana is Professor of History at Keene State College, New Hampshire.

The Blue Stain
  • A Novel of a Racial Outcast
  • Edited by Hugo Bettauer
  • Translated by Peter Höyng, Chauncey J. Mellor
  • Afterword by Kenneth R. Janken
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 August 2018
    Print publication:
    31 May 2017
  • Hugo Bettauer's The Blue Stain, a novel of racial mixing and "passing," starts and ends in Georgia but also takes the reader to Vienna and New York. First published in 1922, the novel tells the story of Carletto, son of a white European academic and an African American daughter of former slaves, who, having passed as white in Europe and fled to America after losing his fortune, resists being seen as "black" before ultimately accepting that identity and joining the early movement for civil rights. Never before translated into English, this is the first novel in which a German-speaking European author addresses early twentieth-century racial politics in the United States - not only in the South but also in the North. There is an irony, however: while Bettauer's narrative aims to sanction a white/European egalitarianism with respect to race, it nevertheless exhibits its own brand of racism by asserting that African Americans need extensive enculturation before they are to be valued as human beings. The novel therefore serves as a unique historical account of transnational and transcultural racial attitudes of the period that continue to reverberate in our present globalized world.Hugo Bettauer (1872-1925) was a prolific Austrian writer and journalist, a very early victim of the Nazis. Peter Höyng is Associate Professor of German Studies at Emory University. Chauncey J. Mellor is Professor of German at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Kenneth R. Janken is Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Business Rhetoric in German Novels
  • From Buddenbrooks to the Global Corporation
  • Volume 191
  • Schonfield Ernest
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    15 August 2018
    Print publication:
    29 June 2018
  • Argues on the evidence of nine major German novels that literature and business have in common a reliance on language, understood in a creative, performative, and rhetorical sense.

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