Books from Camden House (NY)
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Robert Browning and Twentieth-century Criticism
By Patricia O'NeillAs a history of academic responses to Browning, the work includes the contributions of prominent men and women of letters such as Vida Scudder, G. K. Chesterton, F. R. Leavis, and William C. DeVane, in addition to important postwar critics ...
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The Critical Writings of Ingeborg Bachmann
By Ingeborg BachmannThe first English translation of the essays, lectures, and other critical writings of the celebrated Austrian poet, novelist, and public intellectual, one of the most influential postwar writers in German.
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Roman Poets in Modern Guise: The Reception of Roman Poetry Since World War I
By Theodore ZiolkowskiPeter G. Christensen, “Vintila Horia's Treatment of Ovid's Religious Conversion in Dieu est né en exil,” Journal of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences 20 (1995): 171–85. 12. David Malouf, An Imaginary Life (New York: ...
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The Wild Stage: Literary Cabarets of the Weimar Republic
By Alan LareauAlan Lareau's The Wild State: Literary Cabarets of the Weimar Republic reconstructs the artistic programs, repertoires, and reception of three famous Kleinkunst stages during the Weimar Republic: Max Reinhardt's Schall und Rauch (1919), ...
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In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Jewish-Communist Writers in East Germany
By Thomas C. FoxSome recurring questions addressed include: What is the image of Germans? Do the works evidence revenge fantasies? How does the negotiation of ostensibly mutually exclusive identities play out?
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Remembering Africa: The Rediscovery of Colonialism in Contemporary German Literature
By Dirk Göttsche... and Bushiri” (44), “Arabs and Askari” (208) and “Hanging Bushiri” (207) as a boy, rather than “Cowboys and Indians” 107 The name appears to be a pun on Heinrich Barth's Arab pseudonym on his expeditions into Sudan and to Timbuktu.
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The German Face of Edgar Allan Poe: A Study of Literary References in His Works
By Burton Ralph Pollin, Thomas Stansfield Hansen, Thomas Svend HansenThe issue of Poe's competence in the field of German language and literature is central to understanding his creative method.
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Dialogue with the Reader: The Narrative Stance in Uwe Johnson's Fiction
By Kurt J. FickertIn this critical overview of the work of Uwe Johnson, one of the most notable of Germany's post-World War II authors, Kurt Fickert concentrates on Johnson's intention to involve his readers in the structuring of his texts.
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A History of the Commentary on Selected Writings of Samuel Johnson
By Edward TomarkenA history and analysis of 250 years of critical commentary on selected works of Samuel Johnson.
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Dog Days
By Walter KempowskiDog Days
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Fractured Frontiers: The Exile Writing of Nazi Germany and Francoist Spain
By John Klapper, Mónica Jato12 Wehrli, “Der historische Roman,” 89. 13 Feuchtwanger, “Vom Sinn und Unsinn,” ... 15 Döblin, “Der historische Roman und wir,” 312–14. 16 Marcuse, “Die Anklage auf Flucht,” ... 28 Feuchtwanger, “Vom Sinn des historischen Romans,” 510.
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The Way to Eden
By Gerhard Köpf, Amos Leslie WillsonA German novelist views small-town America with fresh eyes and provides a refreshing yet challenging read.
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Fontane in the Twenty-First Century
By Brian Tucker, John B. Lyon21 Compare Gaby Pailer, “'Verlaß dich nicht auf dein Gewalt': Armut, Fremdheit und Kriminalisierung männlicher und ... Das Reden von 'Scham' und 'Ehre' innerhalb der Frauenbewegung um die Jahrhundertwende,” in Unter allen Umständen: ...
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Transformation and Education in the Literature of the GDR
By Jean E. ConacherMapping the Contours of Oppression: Subjectivity, Truth and Fiction in Recent German Autobiographical Treatments of Totalitarianism. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. Fallada, Hans. Jeder stirbt für sich allein. Berlin: Aufbau, 1947.
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Wings of Desire
By Christian RogowskiA guide through the many aspects of Wenders's groundbreaking film, employing archival research to bring out new insights into its making and its meanings.
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Angels are Black and White
By Ulla BerkéwiczReinhold Fischer struggles to come of age in Nazi Germany.
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The Critical Response to Robert Musil's the Man Without Qualities
By Timothy J. Mehigan, Mehigan Timothy JThomas Mann's last major novel, 'Doktor Faustus', revolves around the transformation of traditional German culture into Hitler's fascist Germany, a process that intrigues and confounds thinking people still today.
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Good Old Index: The Sherlock Holmes Handbook : a Guide to the Sherlock Holmes Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,...
By Thomas Wynne Ross" "This volume fills a unique void in the literature on Doyle and his famous detective."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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Tzvetan Todorov: Thinker and Humanist
By Henk de Berg, Karine ZbindenThe first-ever comprehensive examination of Tzvetan Todorov's cultural theory and his place in European thought.
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Stages of European Romanticism: Cultural Synchronicity Across the Arts, 1798-1848
By Theodore ZiolkowskiKimbell, Verdi in the Age of Italian Romanticism, 214–19. 8. Letter of February 3, 1814, to Byron; in Rutherford, ed., Byron: The Critical Heritage, 69. 9. Elfenbein, Byron and the Victorians, ...