2012 Annual German Studies Catalogue

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Companion to Friedrich Nietzsche BISHOP 3

Companion to the Works of Rainer Maria Rilke METZGER / METZGER 6

Debating German Cultural Identity since 1989 FUCHS / JAMES-CHAKR AB ORT Y / SHORT T 8

Duino Elegies RILKE / NORRIS / KEELE 6

Edinburgh German Yearbook 5 BR ADLEY / LEEDER 11

Edinburgh German Yearbook 6 C OSGROVE / RICHARDS 11

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

Enlightened War KRIMMER / SIMPSON 10

Fictions from an Orphan State BARKER 6

Fifteenth-Century Studies 37 GUSICK / HEINTZELMAN 11

GDR Remembered HOD GIN / PEARCE 8

German and European Poetics after the Holocaust HOFMANN et al 7

German Bestseller in the Late Nineteenth Century WO ODFORD / SCHOFIELD 5

German Culture, Politics, and Literature into the Twenty-First Century TABERNER / C O OKE 8

German Romance IV: Lanzelet Z ATZIKHOVEN / MEYER 11

Ghetto Voices in Contemporary German Culture STEHLE 8

Goethe Yearbook 19 PURDY 4

Heights of Reflection IRET ON / SCHAUMANN 5

Heinrich von Kleist and Modernity FISCHER / MEHIGAN 5

Heinrich von Kleist MEHIGAN 5

Housebound: Selfhood and Domestic Space SHAFI 7

Imagining the Age of Goethe in German Literature, 1970-2010 PIZER 7

Imperial Messages: Orientalism Fin de Siècle LEMON 6

Kafka for the Twenty-First Century C ORNGOLD / GROSS 6

Kant and the Concept of Community PAYNE / THORPE 10

Kant in Brazil R AUSCHER / PEREZ 10

Literary Studies and the Pursuits of Reading D OWNING / HESS / BENSON 5

Luise Gottsched the Translator BROWN 4

Many Faces of Weimar Cinema RO GOWSKI 9

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

Metamimesis PIRHOLT 4

Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film BUTLER 9

Modern German Thought from Kant to Habermas BERG / L ARGE 3

Modernity and Plato SCHMIT T / ADLURI 10

Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941 KAY / RUTHERFORD / STAHEL 10

New History of German Cinema KAPCZYNSKI / RICHARDSON 3

Nexus 1 D ONAHUE / HELFER 7

Poet’s Reich: Politics/Culture in George Circle L ANE / RUEHL 6

Popular Revenants: German Gothic and Its Reception CUSACK / MURNANE 3

Post-Wall German Cinema and National History O’ BRIEN 9

Publishing Culture and the “Reading Nation” TATLO CK 5

Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Book of Hours R ANSON/ HUT CHINSON 6

Schiller’s Literary Prose Works HIGH 4

Twenty Years On RECHTIEN / TATE 8

Ulrike Meinhof and West German Terrorism C OLVIN 7

Violent Women in Print BIELBY 7

Visualizing the Holocaust BATHRICK / PR AGER / RICHARDSON 9

Wagner and Venice Fictionalized BARKER 9

Who Is This Schiller Now? HIGH / MARTIN / OELLERS 4

Women in Weimar Fashion GANEVA 9

Writing the New Berlin GERSTENBERGER 8

Young Rilke and His Time SCHO OLFIELD 6

Front cover: Film still from Der Student von Prag, directed by Henrik Galeen (1926). From the Collection of the Austrian Film Museum. © Dr. Wilfried Kugel 1992, used by permission. Cover image of Popular Revenants: The German Gothic and Its International Reception, 1800-2000, edited by Andrew Cusack & Barry Murnane (see following page).

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

This dynamic, event-centered anthology offers a new understanding of the hundred-year history of German-language film, from the earliest days of the Kintopp to contemporary productions like The Lives of Others. Each of the more than eighty essays takes a key date as its starting point and explores its significance for German-language film history, pursuing its relationship with its social, political, and aesthetic moment. While the essays offer ample temporal and topical spread, this book emphasizes the juxtaposition of famous and unknown stories and attention to a wide range of cinematic

events. Brief section introductions provide a larger historical and film-historical framework that illuminates the essays within it, offering both students and the casual reader a “setting” for the individual texts and figures under investigation. Cross-references to other essays in the book are included at the close of each entry, encouraging readers not only to pursue familiar trajectories in the development of German film, but also to trace particular figures and motifs across genres and historical periods. Together, the contributions offer a new view of the multiple, intersecting narratives that make up German national cinema. The constellation that is thus established challenges unidirectional narratives of German film history and charts new ways of thinking about film historiography more broadly.JENNIFER KAPCZYNSKI is Associate Professor of German at Washington University, St. Louis, and MICHAEL RICHARDSON is Associate Professor of German at Ithaca College.

$115.00/£60.00(s) September 2012 978 1 57113 490 5; eISBN 978 1 57113 781 4 54 b/w illus.; 652pp, 9 x 6 in (23.1 x 15.5), HB Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual

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

The literary mode of the Gothic is well established in English Studies, and there is growing interest in its internationality. Gothic fiction is seen as transgressive, especially in the way it crosses borders, often illicitly – for instance, in the form of plagiarized texts or pseudo-translations of nonexistent sources. In the 1790s, when the English Gothic novel was emerging, the real or ostensible source of many of these uncanny texts was Germany. This first book in English dedicated to the German Gothic in over thirty years is aimed at students and researchers in German Studies and English Studies, and redresses

deficiencies in existing sources, which are outdated, piecemeal, or not sufficiently grounded in German Studies.The book examines the international reception of German Gothic since the 1790s heyday of the Gothic novel in Britain and Germany; traces a line of Gothic writing in German to the present day; and inquires into the extraliterary impact of German Gothic. Thus the essays do full justice to the Gothic as a site of conflict and exchange – both between cultures and between discourses.CONTRIBUTORS: Peter Arnds, Silke Arnold-de Simine, Jürgen Barkhoff, Matthias Bickenbach, Andrew Cusack, Mario Grizelj, Jörg Kreienbrock, Barry Murnane, Victor Sage, Monika Schmitz-Emans, Catherine Smale, Andrew Webber.

$75.00/£40.00(s) June 2012 978 1 57113 519 3 312pp, 9 x 6 in (23.1 x 15.5), HB Studies 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 their reception in the English-speaking world has largely depended on translations, a situation that has often hampered full engagement with the rhetorical and philosophical complexity of the German history of ideas. The present volume, the first of its kind, is a response to this situation. After an introduction charting the remarkable flowering of German-language thought since the eighteenth century, it offers extracts – in the original German – from sixteen major philosophical texts, with extensive introductions and

annotations in English. All extracts are carefully chosen to introduce the individual thinkers while allowing the reader to pursue broader themes such as the fate of reason or the history of modern selfhood. The book offers students and scholars of German a complement to linguistic, historical, and literary study by giving them access to the wealth of German-language philosophy. It represents a new way into the work of a succession of thinkers who have defined modern philosophy and thus remain of crucial relevance today.The Philosophers: Immanuel Kant, G. W. F. Hegel, Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Georg Lukács, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, Jürgen Habermas.HENK DE BERG is Professor of German at the University of Sheffield. DUNCAN LARGE is Professor of German at Swansea University.

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A Companion to Friedrich NietzscheLife and WorksEdited by PAUL BISHOP

Nietzsche looms over modern literature and thought; according to Gottfried Benn, “everything my generation discussed, thought through innerly; one could say: suffered; or one could even say: took to the point of exhaustion – all of it had already been said … by Nietzsche; all the rest was just exegesis.” Nietzsche’s influence on intellectual life today is arguably as great; witness the various societies, journals, and websites and the steady stream of papers, collections, and monographs. This Companion offers new essays from the best Nietzsche scholars, emphasizing the interrelatedness of his life and thought,

eschewing a superficial biographical method but taking seriously his claim that great philosophy is “the self-confession of its author and a kind of unintended and unremarked memoir.”Each essay examines a major work by Nietzsche; together, they offer an advanced introduction for students of German Studies, philosophy, and comparative literature as well as for the lay reader. Re-establishing the links between Nietzsche’s philosophical texts and their biographical background, the volume alerts Nietzsche scholars and intellectual historians to the internal development of his thought and the aesthetic construction of his identity as a philosopher.CONTRIBUTORS: Ruth Abbey, Rebecca Bamford, Paul Bishop, Thomas H. Brobjer, Daniel W. Conway, Adrian Del Caro, Carol Diethe, Michael Allen Gillespie and Keegan F. Callanan, Laurence Lampert, Duncan Large, Martin Liebscher, Keith Ansell Pearson, Martine Prange, Alan D. Schrift.

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18th / 19th CenturY literature

Marriage, Gender, and Desire in Early Enlightenment German ComedyEDWARD 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 behaviours call the primacy of marriage into

question. Edward T. Potter examines this marital discourse in close readings of these authors’ plays, uncovering the ambiguity of eighteenth-century comedy’s stance on marriage and highlighting its resistance to the emerging discourse of the sentimental marriage. In addition to excavating the connections between the texts and norms regarding gender roles and sexual behavior, Potter also examines how these comedies self-reflexively perform their own reception in plays-within-plays that reflect upon early Enlightenment comedy, poetics, and pedagogical aesthetics and thereby comment on the efficacy of theater as a means of propagating such norms.EDWARD T. POTTER is Associate Professor of German at Mississippi State University.

$75.00/£40.00(s) March 2012 978 1 57113 529 2 210pp, 9 x 6 in (23.1 x 15.5), HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Luise Gottsched the TranslatorHILARY BROWNCritics have paid increasing attention to the oeuvre of Luise Gottsched (1713-62), Germany’s first prominent woman of letters, but have neglected her lifelong work of translation, which encompassed over fifty volumes and an extraordinary range, from drama and poetry to philosophy, history, archeology, even theoretical physics. This first comprehensive overview of Gottsched’s translations places them in the context of eighteenth-century intellectual, literary, and cultural history, showing that they were part of an ambitious, progressive program undertaken with her famous husband to shape German culture during the Enlightenment. In doing so it casts Gottsched and her work in an entirely new light. Including chapters on all the main subject areas and genres from which Gottsched translated, it also explores the relationship between her translations and her original works, demonstrating that translation was central to her oeuvre. A bibliography of Gottsched’s translations and source texts concludes the volume. Not only a major new addition to a growing body of research on the Gottscheds, the book will also be valuable reading for scholars interested more broadly in women’s writing, the history of translation, and the literature and culture of the German (and European) Enlightenment.HILARY BROWN is Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK.

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

Mimesis, or the imitation of nature, is one of the most important concepts in eighteenth-century German literary aesthetics. As the century progressed, classical mimeticism came increasingly under attack, though it also held its position in the works of Goethe, Schiller, and Moritz. Much recent scholarship construes Early German Romanticism’s refutation of mimeticism as its single distinguishing trait: the Romantics’ conception of art as the very negation of the ideal of imitation. In this view, the Romantics saw art as production (poiesis): imaginative, musical, transcendent. Mattias Pirholt’s book not only problematizes this view of Romanticism, but also shows that reflections on mimesis are foundational for the German Romantic novel, as is Goethe’s great pre-Romantic novel Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship. Among the novels examined are Friedrich Schlegel’s Lucinde, shown to be transgressive in its use of the aesthetics of imitation; Novalis’s Heinrich von Ofterdingen, interpreted as an attempt to construct the novel as a self-imitating world; and Clemens Brentano’s Godwi, seen to signal the end of Early Romanticism, both fulfilling and ironically deconstructing the self-reflective mimeticism of the novels that came before it.MATTIAS PIRHOLT is a Research Fellow in the Department of Literature at Uppsala University, Sweden.

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Goethe Yearbook 19Edited by DANIEL PURDY

Volume 19 of the Goethe Yearbook continues to investigate the connection between Goethe’s science and his aesthetics, with essays on his optics and his plant morphology. A special section examines the central role that Goethe philology has had in establishing practices that shaped the history of Germanistik as a

whole. The yearbook also includes essays on legal history and the novella, Goethe Lieder, esoteric mysticism in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, and Werther’s sexual pathology. The volume also includes three essays re-examining Goethe’s aesthetics in the context of the history of deconstruction, as well as the customary book review section.CONTRIBUTORS: Beate Allert, Frauke Berndt, Sean Franzel, Stefan Hajduk, Bernd Hamacher, Jeffrey L. High, Francien Markx, Lavinia Meier-Ewert, Ansgar Mohnkern, Rüdiger Nutt-Kofoth, Edward T. Potter, Chenxi Tang, Robert Walter.

$80.00/£45.00(s) June 2012 978 1 57113 525 4; eISBN 978 1 57113 820 0 310pp, 9 x 6 in (23.1 x 15.5), HB Goethe Yearbook

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Who Is This Schiller Now?Essays on His Reception and SignificanceEdited by JEFFREY L. HIGH, NICHOLAS MARTIN & NORBERT OELLERS

The works of Friedrich Schiller are among the best known of German and world literature. Schiller’s explosive original artistry and feel for timely and enduring personal tragedy embedded in timeless sociohistorical conflicts remain the topic of lively academic debate. The essays in this volume

address the many flashpoints and canonical shifts in the cyclically polarized reception of Schiller and his works, in pursuit of historical and contemporary answers to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s expression of frightened admiration in 1794: “Who is this Schiller?” The responses demonstrate pronounced shifts from widespread twentieth-century understandings of Schiller: the overwhelming emphasis here is on Schiller the cosmopolitan realist, and little or no trace is left of the ultimately untenable view of Schiller as an abstract idealist who turned his back on politics.

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

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Schiller’s Literary Prose WorksNew Translations and Critical EssaysEdited by JEFFREY L. HIGH

New translations of Schiller’s literary prose works, accompanied by fresh critical essays.

Schiller’s writings are indispensable, and here is their collection. GERMAN QUARTERLY

These accessible translations are a valuable addition to the Schiller corpus available in English. MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW

These engaging narratives, the shorter ones even more than the lengthy ones, merit scholarly attention and a wide readership. CHOICE

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19th CenturY literature & Culture

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Heinrich von Kleist and ModernityEdited by BERND FISCHER & TIM MEHIGAN

This volume of new essays investigates Heinrich von Kleist‘s position in our ever-changing conception of modernity, employing aesthetic, narrative, philosophical, biographical, political, economic, anthropological, psychological, and cultural approaches and

wrestling with the difficulties of historicizing Kleist‘s life and work. It asks to what extent the many breaking points and turning points, ruptures and departures that permeate Kleist‘s work and biography can be conceptually bundled and linked to the emerging paradigm of modernity, and to what extent such an approach to Kleist not only advances understanding of this major German writer and his work, but also sheds light on the nature of our present modernity.CONTRIBUTORS: Seán Allan, Peter Barton, Hilda Meldrum Brown, David Chisholm, Andreas Gailus, Bernhard Greiner, Jeffrey L. High, Anette Horn, Peter Horn, Wolf Kittler, Jonathan W. Marshall, Christian Moser, Dorothea von Mücke, Nancy Nobile, David Pan, Ricarda Schmidt, Helmut J. Schneider.

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Heinrich von KleistWriting after KantTIM MEHIGAN

The question of Kleist‘s reading and reception of Kant has never been satisfactorily answered. The present study pursues this question in light of Kant‘s rising importance for the humanities, arguing not only that Kleist was influenced by Kant, but also that he may be understood as a Kantian. It

approaches Kleist not only as a writer, but also as a thinker, albeit one who conveys his thought through the locutions of fiction and the essay. Kleist thus becomes visible for the first time as an original contributor to post-Kantian thought.TIM MEHIGAN is Professorial Chair of German in the Department of Languages and Cultures at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and Honorary Professor in the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia.

$85.00/£55.00(s) December 2011 978 1 57113 518 6; eISBN 978 1 57113 785 2 244pp, 9 x 6 in (23.1 x 15.5), HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

The German Bestseller in the Late Nineteenth CenturyEdited by CHARLOT TE WO ODFORD & BENEDICT SCHOFIELD

The late 19th century, marked by rapid social and political change in Germany, was also a crucial period for the development of German fiction, for it witnessed the rise of the mass market, and with it the bestseller. Bestselling fiction engaged the values of the new German nation and reflected an emergent middle-class

consciousness. Providing escape in unsettling times, bestsellers captured readers’ imaginations, but have been neglected by scholars, a situation this volume redresses by focusing not on the accepted intellectual canon but on works read soon after publication by many thousands of readers. This volume investigates bestselling fiction of the period from writers such as Freytag, Dahn, Jensen, Raabe, Viebig, Stifter, Auerbach, Storm, Möllhausen, Marlitt, Suttner, and Thomas Mann in its material and social contexts, treating conditions of publication and reception alongside aesthetic questions.CONTRIBUTORS: Christiane Arndt, Caroline Bland, Elizabeth Boa, Anita Bunyan, Katrin Kohl, Todd Kontje, Peter C. Pfeiffer, Nicholas Saul, Benedict Schofield, Ernest Schonfield, Martin Swales, Charlotte Woodford.

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Publishing Culture and the “Reading Nation”German Book History in the Long Nineteenth CenturyEdited by LYNNE TATLO CK

Essays examining aspects of German book history – in relation to writers, readers, and publishers – from the 1780s to the 1930s.

Taken together, the essays in this fascinating book remind us that behind Germany’s sense of Bildungsauftrag […]

lies an impressive publishing history. JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES

A wonderful addition to a field straddling both literary and historical scholarship […]. Provides a rich, multi-faceted view of the publishing world as well as the authors’ and readers’ worlds in the long nineteenth century. WOMEN IN GERMAN REVIEWS

$75.00/£40.00(s) June 2010 978 1 57113 402 8 35 b/w illus.; 356pp, 9 x 6 in (23.1 x 15.5), HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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

Mountains have always stirred the human imagination, playing a crucial role in the cultural evolution of peoples around the globe and becoming infused with meaning in the process. Beyond their geographical-geological significance, mountains affect the topography of the mind, whether as objects of peril or attraction, of

spiritual enlightenment or existential fulfillment, of philosophical contemplation or aesthetic inspiration. This volume of essays by European and North American scholars examines the lure of mountains in German literature, philosophy, film, music, and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, with a focus on the interaction between humans and the alpine environment.CONTRIBUTORS: Peter Arnds, Olaf Berwald, Albrecht Classen, Roger Cook, Scott Denham, Sean Franzel, Christof Hamann, Harald Höbusch, Dan Hooley, Peter Höyng, Sean Ireton, Oliver Lubrich, Anthony Ozturk, Caroline Schaumann, Heather I. Sullivan, Johannes Türk, Sabine Wilke, Wilfried Wilms.

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

Thirty years ago, when theory emerged as integral to literary studies, investigations into the nature of reading dominated academic criticism. Since then, as cultural studies and historical approaches have gained ascendancy, critical focus on reading has waned. This collection of new essays by leading scholars of German and comparative literature, inspired by the work of the long-time and influential scholar of reading Clayton Koelb, 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. Topics addressed include ancient practices of magic reading; Christian conversionary reading; the emergence of silent reading in the Middle Ages; Renaissance ekphrastic reading; homeopathy, reading and Romanticism; and German-Jewish reading cultures in the nineteenth century. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students of literary criticism, German Studies, comparative literature, and European history.


$75.00/£40.00(s) September 2012 978 1 57113 431 8 192pp, 9 x 6 in (23.1 x 15.5), HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture


austrian literature / earlY 20th CenturY literature

Fictions from an Orphan StateLiterary Reflections of Austria between Habsburg and HitlerANDREW BARKER

The literary flair of fin-de-siècle Vienna lived on after 1918 in the First Austrian Republic even as writers grappled with the consequences of a lost war and the vanished Habsburg Empire. Reacting to historical and political issues often distinct from those in Weimar Germany, Austrian literary culture, though frequently associated with Jewish writers deeply attached to the concept of an independent Austria, reflected the republic’s ever-deepening antisemitism and the growing clamor for political union with Germany. Spanning the two momentous decades between the fall of the empire in 1918 and the Nazi Anschluss in 1938, this book explores work by canonical writers such as Schnitzler, Kraus, Roth, and Werfel and by-now-forgotten figures such as the pacifist Andreas Latzko, the arch-Nazi Bruno Brehm, and the fervently Jewish Soma Morgenstern. Also taken into account are Ernst Weiss’s “Hitler” novel Der Augenzeuge and 1930s works about First Republic Austria by the German Communist writers Anna Seghers and Friedrich Wolf. Andrew Barker’s book paints a varied and vivid picture of one of the most challenging and underresearched periods in twentieth-century cultural history.ANDREW BARKER is Emeritus Professor of Austrian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

$75.00/£40.00(s) August 2012 978 1 57113 531 5 200pp, 9 x 6 in (23.1 x 15.5), HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Imperial MessagesOrientalism as Self-Critique in the Habsburg Fin de SiècleROBERT LEMON

In recent years a debate has arisen on the applicability of postcolonial theory to Austria-Hungary. Some argue that the empire’s lack of colonies renders colonialism and postcolonialism irrelevant, while others cite the quasi-colonial attitudes of the Viennese elite towards the “subject peoples” of

the empire. This book applies postcolonial theory to works of orientalist fiction by Hofmannsthal, Musil, and Kafka, all subjects of the empire, challenging Edward Said’s notion that orientalism always serves European colonialism and arguing instead that these Habsburg authors employ oriental motifs not to promulgate Western hegemony, but to engage in self-reflection and self-critique.ROBERT LEMON is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Oklahoma.

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A Poet’s ReichPolitics and Culture in the George CircleEdited by MELISSA S. LANE & MARTIN A. RUEHL

The ideas of the George Circle profoundly affected Germany’s educated middle class, especially in the aftermath of the First World War, when their critique of bourgeois liberalism, materialism, and scholarship (Wissenschaft) as well as their call for new forms of leadership (Herrschaft) and a new Reich

found wider resonance. The essays collected in the present volume critically re-examine these ideas, their contexts, and their influence. They provide new perspectives on the intersection of culture and politics in the works of the George Circle, not least its ambivalent relationship to National Socialism.CONTRIBUTORS: Adam Bisno, Richard Faber, Rüdiger Görner, Peter Hoffmann, Thomas Karlauf, Melissa S. Lane, Robert E. Lerner, David Midgley, Robert E. Norton, Ray Ockenden, Ute Oelmann, Martin A. Ruehl, Bertram Schefold.


Kafka for the Twenty-First CenturyEdited by STANLEY CORNGOLD & RUTH V. GROSS

Franz Kafka’s literary career began in the first decade of the twentieth century and produced some of the most fascinating and influential works in all of modern European literature. Now, a hundred years later, the concerns of a new century call for a look at the questions and

challenges facing Kafka scholarship in the decades ahead. The new essays making up this volume, written by leading international Kafka scholars, pursue answers to these questions and challenges.CONTRIBUTORS: Peter Beicken, Iris Bruce, Jacob Burnett, Uta Degner, Doreen Densky, Katja Garloff, Rolf Goebel, Mark Harman, Robert Lemon, Roland Reu, Ritchie Robertson, Walter Sokel, John Zilcosky, Saskia Ziolkowski.

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Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Book of HoursA New Translation with CommentaryRAINER MARIA RILKE Translated by SUSAN RANSON Edited & introduced by BEN HUTCHINSON

The Book of Hours is Rilke’s most formative work, covering a crucial period in his rapid ascent from fin-de-siècle epigone to distinctive modern voice. He assumes the persona of an artist-monk undertaking the Romantics’ journey into the self, speaking to God as part transcendent deity, part needy

neighbor. The poems’ luminous lyricism is captured in Susan Ranson’s superb new translation. An in-depth introduction explains the work’s context and its major themes, while the poem-by-poem commentary is helpful to the student and the general reader.SUSAN RANSON has published her own poems as well as translations of Rilke and of the Minnesänger. BEN HUTCHINSON is Reader in German at the University of Kent in Canterbury.

Whether we see this collection of poems as an example of personal devotional musing or read it as the “seed of Rilke’s subsequent development,” it is well worth our attention. This is a lively and insightful work of criticism, scholarship, and creative translation. MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW

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The Duino ElegiesRAINER MARIA RILKE, Translated by LESLIE NORRIS & ALAN KEELE$24.95/£16.99 June 2008 978 1 57113 391 5 76pp, 9 x 6 in (23.1 x 15.5), PB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Young Rilke and His TimeGEORGE C. SCHO OLFIELD$90.00/£50.00(s) December 2008 978 1 57113 188 1; eISBN 978 1 57113 811 8 463pp, 9 x 6 in (23.1 x 15.5), HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

A Companion to the Works of Rainer Maria RilkeEdited by ERIKA A. METZGER & MICHAEL M. METZGER$34.95/£25.00 September 2004 978 1 57113 302 1 3 b/w illus.; 323pp, 9 x 6 in (23.1 x 15.5), PB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture


20th CenturY & ContemPorarY literature

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

Nexus is the official publication of the biennial German Jewish Studies Workshop at Duke University, the first ongoing forum in North America for German Jewish studies. It publishes innovative research in German Jewish Studies and serves as a venue for introducing new directions in

the field, analyzing the development and definition of the field itself, and considering the place of German Jewish Studies within the disciplines of both German Studies and Jewish Studies. Additionally, it examines issues of pedagogy and programming at the undergraduate, graduate, and community levels. The contributions are organized in three sections according to their approach to German Jewish Studies: theoretical and philosophical, literary-historical, or approaches that focus on the Jew(s) in today’s Germany. CONTRIBUTORS: Nicola Behrmann, Juliette Brungs, Katja Garloff, Sander L. Gilman, Jeffrey A. Grossman, Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich, Michael G. Levine, Elizabeth Loentz, Agnes C. Mueller, Todd Samuel Presner, Lisa Silverman, David Suchoff.

$75.00/£40.00(s) November 2011 978 1 57113 501 8; eISBN 978 1 57113 760 9 8 b/w illus.; 256pp, 9 x 6 in (23.1 x 15.5), HB Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies

German and European Poetics after the HolocaustCrisis and CreativityEdited by GERT HOFMANN, RACHEL MAGSHAMHRÁIN, MARKO PAJEVIC & MICHAEL SHIELDS

Adorno’s famous dictum that writing poetry after Auschwitz would be barbaric has haunted discourse on poetics, yet has also given rise to poetic and theoretical acts of resistance. The essays in this volume discuss postwar poetics in terms of new poetological directions and territory rather than merely

destruction of traditions. Embedded in the discourse triggered by Adorno, they treat the work of Paul Celan, Gottfried Benn, and Ingeborg Bachmann along with other German authors and concrete poetry. The final section offers comparative views of the poetics of European literary figures and a consideration of the aesthetics of Claude Lanzmann’s film Shoah.


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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. The concluding comparative analysis of Katharina Hacker’s Die Habenichtse and the English novelist Ian McEwan’s Saturday reveals these developments in another national literature and makes a case for the global appeal of the domestic as a major site of identity politics.MONIKA SHAFI is the Elias Ahuja Professor of German at the University of Delaware.

$75.00/£40.00(s) October 2012 978 1 57113 524 7 232pp, 9 x 6 in (23.1 x 15.5), HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Imagining the Age of Goethe in German Literature, 1970-2010JOHN D. PIZER

This is the first book-length study devoted to modern German “author-as-character” fiction set in the Age of Goethe. It shows the powerful hold the Goethezeit continues to exercise on the imagination of many of Germany’s leading writers. JOHN D. PIZER is Professor of German and Comparative

Literature at Louisiana State University.

Absorbing […]. Well researched, learned, and lively, this informative volume will help readers discern directions undertaken by contemporary writers who redefine some of Germany’s cultural icons. […] Recommended. CHOICE

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

As the controversy surrounding the release of Uli Edel and Bernd Eichinger’s 2008 feature film The Baader Meinhof Complex demonstrates, West Germany’s terrorist period of the 1970s is still a fascinating – and troubling – subject. One of the most provocative aspects, still today, is the high proportion of women involved in terrorism, most notoriously Ulrike Meinhof. That the film concentrates on the trajectory of Meinhof ’s life and mobilizes established and hence reassuring paradigms of femininity in its representation of her (as “mother” and “hysterical woman”) suggests that the combination of women and violence is still threatening and that there is still mileage to be had from feminizing the discourse. The present study returns to the West German print media of the 1960s and 1970s and raises questions about the continuing preoccupation with this period. Looking at publications from the right-wing Bild to the liberal Der Spiegel – it explores how violent women – not only terrorists but also others such as the convicted murderer and media femme fatale Vera Brühne – were represented in text and image. 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 steadily increasing interest in the UK and the US.CLARE BIELBY is Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Hull.

$80.00/£45.00(s) December 2012 978 1 57113 530 8 25 b/w illus.; 250pp, 9 x 6 in (23.1 x 15.5), HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture


Ulrike Meinhof and West German TerrorismLanguage, Violence, and IdentitySARAH COLVIN

First specialized study of Meinhof and the RAF in English, focusing on their use of language to justify extreme violence.

Throughout [Colvin] writes with the stylistic assurance which comes from complete mastery of her subject […]. This is a […] thoroughly good book which will

be required reading for anyone interested in “1968,” the German Student Movement, Baader-Meinhof terrorism, or Meinhof biography. MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW

Even in German-language works, no one has approached the author Ulrike Meinhof to this degree. LITERATURKRITIK.DE



ContemPorarY literature

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. Maria Stehle illuminates these tensions and transformations 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 twenty-first century, and in hip-hop and rap music of the same periods. In their representations of ghettos, authors, filmmakers, musicians, and performers redefine and challenge provincialism and nationalism and employ transcultural frameworks for their diverging political agendas. By contextualizing these discussions within social and political developments, this study illuminates the complexities that define Germany today for scholars and students across the disciplines of German, European, cultural, urban, and media studies.MARIA STEHLE is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

$75.00/£40.00(s) November 2012 978 1 57113 544 5 6 b/w illus.; 238pp, 9 x 6 in (23.1 x 15.5), HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Emerging German-Language Novelists of the Twenty-First CenturyEdited 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. This volume of fifteen essays, each devoted to one of the writers and a major work, is of interest not only to the specialist but also to

the general reader.


This engaging, readable collection is an excellent introduction to the current literary scene in Germany. […] A major strength is the collection’s emphasis on transnational and migrant authors, who are among the most vital literary voices writing in Germany today […] Essential. CHOICE

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Debating German Cultural Identity since 1989Edited by ANNE FUCHS, KATHLEEN JAMES-CHAKRAB ORT Y & LINDA SHORT T

The events of 1989 and German unification were seismic historical moments. Although 1989 appeared to signify a healing of the war-torn history of the twentieth century, unification posed the question of German cultural identity afresh. Politicians, historians, writers, filmmakers, architects,

and the wider public engaged in “memory contests” over such questions as the legitimacy of alternative biographies, West German hegemony, and the normalization of German history. This dynamic, contested, and still ongoing transformation of German cultural identity is the topic of this volume of new essays by scholars from the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States, and Ireland.



The GDR RememberedRepresentations of the East German State since 1989Edited by NICK HOD GIN & CAROLINE PEARCE

Twenty years after German unification, the consequences of the country’s divided past continue to be debated. The legacy of the German Democratic Republic occupies a major role in popular culture and politics, while many former citizens of the GDR are still trying to work through their

experience of the regime and adjust to unification. Competing representations of the East German state have emerged, some underlining its repressive nature, others lamenting the loss of a sense of community. This volume of new essays reflects upon the ways in which the GDR has been remembered in film and literature, museums and memorials, and historiography and politics.


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Twenty Years OnCompeting Memories of the GDR in Postunification German CultureEdited by RENATE RECHTIEN & DENNIS TATE

Twenty years on from the dramatic events that led to the opening of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the GDR, the subjective dimension of German unification is still far from complete. These essays focus on competing memories of the GDR and the ways they have evolved in the mass media, literature, and

film since 1989-90.




Writing the New BerlinThe German Capital in Post-Wall Literature KATHARINA GERSTENBERGER

A study of the “patchwork imaginary” that is postwall Berlin fiction and its significance for the new Germany.

An extremely valuable contribution to scholarship about most recent German literature and Germans after

unification. FO CUS ON GERMAN STUDIES

$39.95/£19.99 July 2011 978 1 57113 513 1 220pp, 9 x 6 in (23.1 x 15.5), PB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

German Culture, Politics, and Literature into the Twenty-First CenturyBeyond NormalizationEdited by STUART TABERNER & PAUL CO OKE

The first major study of the contemporary German debate over “normalization” and its impact across the range of cultural, political, economic, intellectual, and historical discourses.

The breadth of viewpoints can be regarded as a model of successful cultural studies. [...] A first-rate volume. GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW

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film / PerformanCe & Visual Culture

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The Many Faces of Weimar CinemaRediscovering Germany’s Filmic LegacyEdited by CHRISTIAN RO GOWSKI

Weimar cinema has often been equated with a handful of auteurist filmmakers, a few canonical films, or even “expressionist film.” But recently such assessments have been challenged by advancements in theory and research that highlight the tremendous richness and diversity of Weimar

cinema. This new source material calls for a re-evaluation that considers lesser-known directors and producers, popular genres, experiments of the avant-garde, and nonfiction films, all of which are attended to by the essays in this volume.


[A]n enormously important and didactically helpful intervention … [The book] lives up to the promise of its title and should soon become mandatory reading for everyone interested in new perspectives on Weimar Cinema. FILMBLAT T

[A] cornucopia of undiscovered or relatively unknown filmic gems […]. The volume keeps its promise […] as it genuinely rediscovers Germany’s filmic legacy. GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW

$39.95/£19.99 December 2011 978 1 57113 532 2 61 b/w illus.; 368pp, 9 x 6 in (23.1 x 15.5), PB Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual


Women in Weimar FashionDiscourses & Displays in German Culture, 1918-1933 MILA GANEVA

New view of the crucial role of fashion discourse and practice in Weimar Germany and its significance for women.

Ganeva’s carefully researched and clearly written study is not only interesting to film studies scholars for the part that deals explicitly with film. Instead, the

entire book works out parallels between the societal perception of fashion and film, both components of popular culture that promised unmatched brilliance and glamour and were medial systems that mirrored the experiences of Modernity in a very direct way and formed a feminine niche in mass culture. FILMBLAT T

$39.95/£19.99 August 2011 978 1 57113 516 2 21 b/w illus.; 252pp, 9 x 6 in (23.1 x 15.5), PB Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual

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Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and FilmCultural Transformations in Europe, 1732-1933ERIK BUTLER

For 300 years, fictions of the vampire have fed off anxieties about cultural continuity: its “metamorphoses” are distorted images of social transformation. This book explains why representations of vampirism began in the 18th century, flourished in the 19th, and eclipsed other forms of

monstrosity in the early 20th. It discusses many French and German works new to English-speaking students and scholars. It is the first study to identify a unifying logic underlying the vampire’s many and often apparently contradictory forms.ERIK BUTLER holds a PhD from Yale University and has taught at Emory University and Swarthmore College.

Butler’s analyses of the development of vampire literature in the European tradition are the most distinctive […] A valuable contribution. CHOICE

$29.95/£17.99 December 2011 978 1 57113 533 9 238pp, 9 x 6 in (23.1 x 15.5), PB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Visualizing the HolocaustDocuments, Aesthetics, MemoryEdited by DAVID BATHRICK, BRAD PRAGER & MICHAEL D. RICHARDSON

Visual representations are an essential but highly contested means of understanding and remembering the Holocaust. Photographs taken in the camps in 1945 provided proof of the atrocities; later visual representations attempted to represent the extreme trauma artistically. The two kinds of

images differ in origin, but share goals and have raised similar concerns: the former are criticized as potentially inadequate to portraying the magnitude of events; the latter on the grounds that the mediation they entail is unacceptable. This book explores the controversies surrounding images of the Holocaust.DAVID BATHRICK is Emeritus Professor of German at Cornell University, BRAD PRAGER is Associate Professor of German at the University of Missouri, and MICHAEL D. RICHARDSON is Associate Professor of German at Ithaca College.

[A] fresh look at the canon of Holocaust representation, and therefore a new appreciation for what is seen, and how memory shapes our attempt to salvage something from the ashes. JOURNAL FOR GENO CIDE STUDIES

$39.95/£19.99(s) July 2012 978 1 57113 542 1 26 b/w illus.; 346pp, 9 x 6 in (23.1 x 15.5) Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual

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

Since unification, a radical shift has occurred in Germans’ view of their country’s past, with 1989 replacing 1945 as the primary caesura. Events of the cold-war period are seen as decisive in a history that unites yet divides East and West. Establishing foundational myths and finding common experience is pivotal in

constructing national identity, and the cinema provides a forum for consumption, negotiation, and contestation of such notions. This book looks at history films made since 1989, exploring how utopianism and political dissent have shaped German identity. It studies the genre – including popular successes, critical successes, and perceived failures – as a set of texts and a discursive network, gauging which conventions and storylines are resilient. At issue is the overriding question: to what extent do these films contribute to a narrative that legitimizes the German nation-state?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 2012 978 1 57113 522 3 17 b/w illus.; 348pp, 9 x 6 in (23.1 x 15.5), HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

MUSIC

Wagner and Venice FictionalizedVariations on a ThemeJOHN W. BARKER

Numerous works of fiction treat Wagner’s last years, his death in Venice in 1883, and even a fabricated eleventh-hour romance. These works – many presented here in English for the first time – reveal a striking evolution in the way that Wagner’s character and reputation have been viewed over

more than a century. They offer insights into changing contexts in Western intellectual and cultural history. And they make clear how much Wagner’s associations with Venice have become part of the accumulated mythology of “the floating city.”JOHN W. BARKER is emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

$75.00/£40.00(s) August 2012 978 1 58046 410 9 18 b/w illus.; 366pp, 9 x 6 in (23.1 x 15.5), HB Eastman Studies in Music


PhilosoPhY / German historY

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED

Modernity and PlatoTwo Paradigms of RationalityARB O GAST SCHMIT T Translated by VISHWA ADLURI

Modernity’s break with the Middle Ages is distinguished by a comprehensive turn to a world of individual, empirical experience, a turn that was a repudiation of Plato’s idea that there is a reality of rationality and intellect. Yet already in the Renaissance it was no longer thought necessary to seriously confront the “old”

concept of rationality that emanates from Plato. Arbogast Schmitt’s book sets itself this until-now-unfulfilled task, comparing the arguments for a life based on theory and one based on praxis in order to provide a balance sheet of profit and loss. Showing that the Enlightenment did not, as often assumed, discover rationality, but instead a different concept of rationality, the book opens one’s view to other forms of rationality and new possibilities of reconciliation with one’s own – that is, Western – history.Modernity and Plato was hailed upon its publication in Germany (2003, revised 2008) as “one of the most important philosophy books of the past few years,” as “a book that belongs, without any doubt, in the great tradition of German philosophy,” and as “a provocative thesis on the antiquity-modernity debate.” It is a major contribution to synthetic philosophy and philosophical historiography, in English for the first time.ARBOGAST SCHMITT is Professor of Classical Philology and Greek at the University of Marburg, Germany. VISHWA ADLURI teaches in the Departments of Religion and Philosophy at Hunter College, City University of New York.

Succeeds in demonstrating Plato’s intellectual greatness [...] impressive knowledge of the subject and admirable analytical clarity.PHILOSOPHISCHES JAHRBUCH

$99.00/£55.00(s) August 2012 978 1 57113 497 4; eISBN 978 1 57113 769 2 640pp, 9.5 x 6.25 in (24.1 x 15.9), HB

Kant in BrazilFREDERICK RAUSCHER & DANIEL OMAR PEREZ

Kant in Brazil is a collected volume of essays conceived at the 2005 International Kant Congress in Sao Paulo as a way to make accessible to Anglophone Kant scholars some of the best work on Kant produced by Brazilian scholars. The availability of this material in English for the first time will promote interaction between North American and Brazilian scholars as well as enable Anglophone readers worldwide to incorporate excellent but previously neglected work into their own debates about Kant. The book contains an editor’s preface providing an overview of the institutional structure of Kant studies in Brazil. The essays that follow, translated from Portuguese, include an overview of the history of Kant studies in Brazil over the past two centuries as well as interpretive essays that span the corpus of Kant’s work in theoretical philosophy, ethics, political philosophy, history, aesthetics, and teleology. Various styles of philosophy are put into practice as well: analytical, philological, reflective, comparative, displaying the broad and diverse nature of Brazilian philosophy. FREDERICK RAUSCHER is associate professor of philosophy at Michigan State University. DANIEL OMAR PEREZ is professor of philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Brazil.

$34.95/£19.99(s) May 2012 978 1 58046 415 4 390pp, 9 x 6 in (23.1 x 15.5), PB North American Kant Society Studies in Philosophy

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Kant and the Concept of CommunityEdited by CHARLTON PAYNE & LUCAS THORPE

The concept of community plays a central role in Kant’s theoretical philosophy, his practical philosophy, his aesthetics, and his religious thought. Given Kant’s status as a systematic philosopher, volume editors Payne and Thorpe maintain that any examination of the concept of community in one area of his work can be

understood only in relation to the others. In this volume, scholars from different disciplines offer their interpretations of Kant on the concept of community. The various essays further illustrate the central relevance and importance of Kant’s conception of community to contemporary debates in various fields.


$34.95/£19.99 April 2011 978 1 58046 387 4 328pp, 9 x 6 in (23.1 x 15.5), PB North American Kant Society Studies in Philosophy

Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941Total War, Genocide, and RadicalizationALEX J. KAY, JEFF RUTHERFORD & DAVID STAHEL

This collection of essays provides readers with the most current interpretations of Germany’s military, economic, racial, and diplomatic policies in 1941. With its breadth and its thematic focus on total war, genocide, and radicalization, this volume fills a considerable gap in English-language literature on Germany’s

war of annihilation against the Soviet Union and the radicalization of World War II during this critical year.ALEX J. KAY is an independent contractor for the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on War Consequences. JEFF RUTHERFORD is assistant professor of history at Wheeling Jesuit University, where he teaches modern European history. DAVID STAHEL is the author of Operation Barbarossa and Germany’s Defeat in the East and Kiev 1941: Hitler’s Battle for Supremacy in the East.

$85.00/£55.00(s) February 2012 978 1 58046 407 9; eISBN 978 1 58046 769 8 7 b/w illus.; 370pp, 9 x 6 in (23.1 x 15.5), HB Rochester Studies in Central Europe

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Enlightened WarGerman Theories and Cultures of Warfare from Frederick the Great to ClausewitzEdited by ELISABETH KRIMMER & PATRICIA ANNE SIMPSON

New essays exploring the relationship between warfare and Enlightenment thought both historically and in the present.

Comprehensive and welcome …. The strength of this well-rounded anthology rests in its interdisciplinary approach and ability to engage readers from

a variety of fields. … Such a work is indispensable to scholars [in] history, philosophy, and literary and cultural studies, as well as women’s and gender studies. [It is also] an important addition to any graduate-seminar reading list on German culture around 1800 … [A] significant and necessary addition to 18th- and 19th-century scholarship. GERMAN QUARTERLY

$85.00/£55.00(s) March 2011 978 1 57113 495 0; eISBN 978 1 57113 763 0 8 b/w illus.; 360pp, 9 x 6 in (23.1 x 15.5), HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Edinburgh German Yearbook 6Sadness in Modern German-Language Literature and CultureEdited by MARY COSGROVE & ANNA RICHARDS

Each volume of the Edinburgh German Yearbook publishes scholarly contributions on a single topic of current challenge to the field. The focus of volume 6, sadness, is a broad term, an anthropological constant in a general sense, but expressed differently in specific historical epochs. This volume investigates the often subversive function and meaning of sadness in German-language literature and culture from the eighteenth century to the present, where it has fallen from the grandiose heights of melancholy genius and artistic creativity to become the embarrassing other of a Western civilization that prizes happiness as the mark of successful modern living.CONTRIBUTORS: Per Brandt, Peter Damrau, Kristian Donko, Svenja Frank, Stephen Joy, Johannes Kaminski, Franziska Meyer, Richard Millington, Martin Modlinger, Karin S. Wozonig.

$75.00/£40.00(s) October 2012 978 1 57113 528 5 256pp, 9 x 6 in (23.1 x 15.5), HB

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Edinburgh German Yearbook 5Brecht and the GDR: Politics, Culture, PosterityEdited by LAURA BRADLEY & KAREN LEEDER

When Brecht left the West for good in 1949 to found the Berliner Ensemble, he was welcomed by the GDR regime, but his relationship to it was always complex, and he was increasingly marginalized. Only after his death did the regime seek to co-opt him as a socialist classic. This selective

appropriation of Brecht’s legacy and the development of authorized modes of interpretation and performance soon provoked counter-reactions from writers, directors, and theorists. EGYB 5 explores the multiple, contradictory impulses behind these paradigm shifts and behind Brecht’s activities in the GDR, as well as the range of creative responses his works have inspired.


$75.00/£40.00(s) October 2011 978 1 57113 492 9; eISBN 978 1 57113 779 1 7 b/w illus.; 250pp, 9 x 6 in (23.1 x 15.5), HB

Fifteenth-Century Studies 37Edited by BARBARA I . GUSICK & MAT THEW Z. HEINTZELMAN

This volume includes articles on René d’Anjou and authorial doubling in the Livre du Coeur d’Amour épris; tradition and innovation in popular German song poetry from Oswald von Wolkenstein to Georg Forster; the role of sacred images in Capgrave’s Life of Saint Katherine; milieu, John Strecche, and the Gawain-poet; Gaelic, Middle Scots, and the question of ethnicity in three Scottish flytings; William Caxton’s translations of Aesop; the visualization of information in Conrad Buitzruss’s compendium; and Gilles de Rais and his modern apologists. Book reviews conclude the volume.CONTRIBUTORS: Albrecht Classen, Nicholas Ealy, Richard Garrett, Rosanne Gasse, Janice McCoy, Jacqueline Murdock, Ben Parsons, Carolyn King Stephens, Elizabeth Wade-Sirabian.

$75.00/£40.00(s) March 2012 978 1 57113 526 1; eISBN 978 1 57113 822 4 34 b/w illus.; 254pp, 9 x 6 in (23.1 x 15.5), HB Fifteenth-Century Studies


German Romance IV: LanzeletULRICH VON ZATZIKHOVEN Edited and translated by KATHLEEN J. MEYER

Ulrich von Zatzikhoven’s Lanzelet, dating from the end of the twelfth century, is a verse translation into Middle High German of what was probably an Anglo-Norman romance, now lost. It presents the story of Lanzelet (Lancelot), but in quite a different version from Chrétien de Troyes’ Chevalier de la

charrette. The first half of the tale concerns Lanzelet’s knightly and romantic exploits on his way to discovering his true identity, while at the same time winning the beautiful Iblis as his wife. The second half revolves around Lanzelet’s efforts to defend the honor of the Arthurian court and reestablish his own and his wife’s kingdoms. As in much literature of the time, sex, violence and magic abound. This volume presents the first full translation into English, with a new, facing edition of the Middle High German text. It is accompanied by an introduction, variant readings and notes to the translation.KATHLEEN J. MEYER teaches in the Department of Languages and Ethnic Studies, Bemidji State University.

[A] competent line-by-line translation that enables us to work back from the translation to the original. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW

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