Books written by Andrew Webber
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The Doppelgèanger: Double Visions in German Literature
The concept of the Doppelgänger has had significant influence upon representations of the self in German literature. This study charts the development of the double from its origins in the Romantic period
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Memory Culture and the Contemporary City: Building Sites
See S. Peters and M. J. Schäfer (2006), 'Intellektuelle Anschauung – unmögliche Evidenz', in S. Peters and M. J. Schäfer, eds, 'Intellektuelle Anschauung': Figurationen von Evidenz zwischen Kunst und Wissen (Bielefeld: transcript), pp.
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Cities in Transition: The Moving Image and the Modern Metropolis
The city is one of the greatest unsung heroes in cinema -- a modernist inspiration for silent classics such as Metropolis (1926) and a dense urban jungle in The Matrix...
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Sexuality and the Sense of Self in the Works of Georg Trakl and Robert Musil
Otto Rank's ' Der Doppelgänger ' ( 1914 ) is a tour de force of classical psychoanalytic criticism , reading the text ... sich der Held von den Verfolgungen durch sein Ich endgültig zu schützen sucht , ist eigentlich ein Selbstmord'.29 ...
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Performance and Performativity in German Cultural Studies
This volume assembles the select proceedings of an international conference held at the University of Cambridge in March 2002.
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The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Berlin
... Trobadora Beatriz nach Zeugnissen ihrer Spielfrau Laura (The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by Her Minstrel Laura (1974)) and its sequel, Amanda: Ein Hexenroman (Amanda: A Witch Novel (1983)), which are both set ...
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Berlin in the Twentieth Century: A Cultural Topography
An intriguing study of Berlin as a central theme in literature and film, reflecting its troubled but creative past.