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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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Transnationalism in Contemporary German-Language Literature
  • Edited by Carrie Smith-Prei, Elisabeth Herrmann, Stuart Taberner
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    10 June 2021
    Print publication:
    15 September 2015
  • Transnationalism has become a key term in debates in the social sciences and humanities, reflecting concern with today's unprecedented flows of commodities, fashions, ideas, and people across national borders. Forced and unforced mobility, intensified cross-border economic activity due to globalization, and the rise of trans- and supranational organizations are just some of the ways in which we now live both within, across, and beyond national borders.Literature has always been a means of border crossing and transgression - whether by tracing physical movement, reflecting processes of cultural transfer, traveling through space and time, or mapping imaginary realms. It is also becoming more and more a 'moving medium' that creates a transnational space by circulating around the world, both reflecting on the reality of transnationalism and participating in it. This volume refines our understanding of transnationalism both as a contemporary reality and as a concept and an analytical tool. Engaging with the work of such writers as Christian Kracht, Ilija Trojanow, Julya Rabinowich, Charlotte Roche, Helene Hegemann, Antje Rávic Strubel, Juli Zeh, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, and Wolfgang Herrndorf, it builds on the excellent work that has been done in recent years on 'minority' writers; German-language literature, globalization, and 'world literature'; and gender and sexuality in relation to the 'nation.'Contributors: Hester Baer, Anke S. Biendarra, Claudia Breger, Katharina Gerstenberger, Elisabeth Herrmann, Christina Kraenzle, Maria Mayr, Tanja Nusser, Lars Richter,Carrie Smith-Prei, Faye Stewart, Stuart Taberner.Elisabeth Herrmann is Associate Professor of German at Stockholm University. Carrie Smith-Prei is Associate Professor of German at the University of Alberta. Stuart Taberner is Professor of Contemporary German Literature, Culture and Society at the University of Leeds and is a Research Associate in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch; German and French at the University of the Free State, South Africa.

Red Vienna, White Socialism, and the Blues
  • Ann Tizia Leitich's America
  • Rob McFarland
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 June 2021
    Print publication:
    22 October 2015
  • After the First World War, Vienna was overrun by jazz, Hollywood movies, and Fordism; its citizens were both fascinated and appalled by the waves of American ideas and products. To make sense of the American phenomenon, readers turned to Ann Tizia Leitich, the New York-based correspondent for Vienna's prominent daily Neue Freie Presse and other newspapers. Rob McFarland tells the story of Leitich's escape, occasioned by a personal crisis, from Austria to America in 1921, and of her rise as a journalist, cultural historian, and novelist. By the early 1930s, she had met President Coolidge, Senator Sol Bloom, the writer Upton Sinclair, and the critic H. L. Mencken. Her devoted readers - including the novelist Stefan Zweig and the Austrian chancellor Ignatz Seipl - sought in her witty,insightful descriptions of the United States some American vitality to invigorate their own moribund culture and economy. Chronicling Leitich's career as a journalist, cultural historian, and novelist and providing close readings of her writings about America, this book reveals her as an important cultural mediator between Austria and America.

    Rob McFarland is Associate Professor of German at Brigham Young University.

The Medieval German Lohengrin
  • Narrative Poetics in the Story of the Swan Knight
  • Alastair Matthews
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    02 June 2021
    Print publication:
    01 November 2016
  • The tale of the mysterious knight carried across the water by a swan to the woman he saves and marries is one of the great narrative traditions of the Middle Ages. The version in the German Lohengrin (ca.1300) is perhaps the most striking. It captures the imagination with the appearance of the epic poet Wolfram von Eschenbach as narrator, the changing forms of the swan, and Lohengrin's appearance as a warrior alongside Saints Peter and Paul. In the past, however, Lohengrin has been dismissed as an awkward amalgamation of earlier sources - partly due to more recent retellings of the material, such as Wagner's opera. This first monograph on Lohengrin in English presents a new response to the challenges the text poses. It is a study of how we read narrative across temporal distance, and at its heart lies the question: if a story is not held together by the chronological and causal links characteristic of modern narratives, how does it cohere? Alastair Matthews analyzes both the invocations of Wolfram that frame the text and the story of the Swan Knight that they enclose, arguing that Lohengrin is defined by a web of connections in which questions ofidentity and recognition are crucial, and thus that the themes at the core of the tale govern how it is told.

    Alastair Matthews, DPhil Oxford, is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Centre for Medieval Literature, University of Southern Denmark.

Nonconformist Writing in Nazi Germany
  • The Literature of Inner Emigration
  • John Klapper
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    29 May 2021
    Print publication:
    01 September 2015
  • Studies of literary responses to National Socialism between 1933 and 1945 have largely focused on exiled writers; opposition within Germany and Austria is less well understood. Yet in both countries there were writers who continued to publish imaginative literature that did not conform to Nazi precepts: the authors of the so-called Inner Emigration. They withdrew from the regime and sought to express their nonconformity through camouflaged texts designed to offer sensitized readers encouragement, reassurance, and consolation.This book provides a critical, historically informed reassessment of these writers. It is innovative in scope, in its use of little-known sources, in placing authors and texts in a detailed social and political context, and in analyzing seminal topoi and tropes of oppositional discourse. One of the most extensive studies of the topic in German or English, it provides a state-of-the-art text for literary historians, scholars, and students of German literature, but also, thanks to its accessibility and translation of all material, serves as an introduction for English-speaking readers to this poorly understood group of writers. Two contextualizing chapters are followed by chapters devoted to Werner Bergengruen, Stefan Andres, Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen, Gertrud von le Fort, Reinhold Schneider, Ernst Jünger, Ernst Wiechert, and Erika Mitterer.John Klapper is Professor in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham, UK.

German Women's Writing in the Twenty-First Century
  • Edited by Hester Baer, Alexandra Merley Hill
  • With contributions by Necia Chronister , Helga Druxes , Valerie Heffernan , Lindsey Lawton , Sheridan Marshall , Beret Norman , Mihaela Petrescu , Jill Suzanne Smith , Carrie Smith-Prei , Maria Stehle and Katherine Stone
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    25 May 2021
    Print publication:
    15 May 2015
  • What is the status of women's writing in German today, in an era when feminism has thoroughly problematized binary conceptions of sex and gender? Drawing on gender and queer theory, including the work of Lauren Berlant, Judith Butler, and Michel Foucault, the essays in this volume rethink conventional ways of conceptualizing female authorship and re-examine the formal, aesthetic, and thematic terms in which "women's literature" has been conceived. With an eye to the literary and feminist legacy of authors such as Christa Wolf and Ingeborg Bachmann, contributors treat the works of many of contemporary Germany's most significant literary voices, including Hatice Akyün, Sibylle Berg, Thea Dorn, Tanja Dückers, Karen Duve, Jenny Erpenbeck, Julia Franck, Katharina Hacker, Charlotte Roche, Julia Schoch, and Antje Rávic Strubel -- authors who, through their writing or their role in the media, engage with questions of what it means to be a woman writer in twenty-first-century Germany. Contributors: Hester Baer, Necia Chronister, Helga Druxes, Valerie Heffernan, Alexandra Merley Hill, Lindsey Lawton, Sheridan Marshall, Beret Norman, Mihaela Petrescu, Jill Suzanne Smith, Carrie Smith-Prei, Maria Stehle, Katherine Stone. Hester Baer is Associate Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Maryland. Alexandra Merley Hill is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Portland.

Classical Music in the German Democratic Republic
  • Production and Reception
  • Edited by Kyle Frackman, Larson Powell
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 May 2021
    Print publication:
    30 June 2015
  • Classical music in the German Democratic Republic is commonly viewed as having functioned as an ideological support or cultural legitimization for the state, in the form of the so-called "bourgeois humanist inheritance." The large numbers of professional orchestras in the GDR were touted as a proof of the country's culture. Classical music could be seen as the polar opposite of Americanizing pop culture and also of musical modernism, which was decried as formalist. Nevertheless, there were still musical modernists in the GDR, and classical music traditions were not only a prop of the state.
    This collection of new essays approaches the topic of classical music in the GDR from an interdisciplinary perspective, presenting the work of scholars in a number of complementary disciplines, including German Studies, Musicology, Aesthetics, and Film Studies. Contributors to this volume offer a broad examination of classical music in the GDR, while also uncovering nonconformist tendencies andquestioning the assumption that classical music in the GDR meant nothing but (socialist) respectability.

    Contributors: Tatjana Böhme-Mehner, Martin Brady, Lars Fischer, Kyle Frackman, Golan Gur, Peter Kupfer, Albrecht von Massow, Carola Nielinger-Vakil, Jessica Payette, Larson Powell, Juliane Schicker, Martha Sprigge, Matthias Tischer, Jonathan L. Yaeger, Johanna Frances Yunker

    Kyle Frackman is Assistant Professor of German at the University of British Columbia. Larson Powell is Professor of German at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Anxious Journeys
  • Twenty-First-Century Travel Writing in German
  • Edited by Karin Baumgartner, Monika Shafi
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    06 April 2021
    Print publication:
    08 April 2019
  • The first book to offer a cutting-edge discussion of contemporary travel writing in German, Anxious Journeys looks both at classical tropes of travel writing and its connection to current debates.

The Literary Politics of Mitteleuropa
  • Reconfiguring Spatial Memory in Austrian and Yugoslav Literature after 1945
  • Yvonne Zivkovic
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    23 March 2021
    Print publication:
    15 March 2021
  • Shows how postwar writers in Austria and Yugoslavia re-imagined Mitteleuropa as a cultural space between nostalgia and totalitarianism.

Johannes Scherr
  • Mediating Culture in the German Nineteenth Century
  • Andrew Cusack
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    23 March 2021
    Print publication:
    15 March 2021
  • Traces the career of the widely read cultural historian Johannes Scherr and his development of a new kind of historical writing for the increasingly globalized 19th-century world.

The Short Story in German in the Twenty-First Century
  • Edited by Lyn Marven
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 February 2021
    Print publication:
    15 December 2020
  • Offers readings of key contemporary trends and themes in the vibrant genre of short-story writing in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, with attention to major practitioners and translations of two representative stories.

The Problem of the Actress in Modern German Theater and Thought
  • S. E. Jackson
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 February 2021
    Print publication:
    22 January 2021
  • Reconstructs the constitutive role that German actresses played on and off the stage in shaping not only modernist theater aesthetics and performance practices, but also influential strains of modern thought.

The Red Vienna Sourcebook

Songs for a Revolution
  • The 1848 Protest Song Tradition in Germany
  • Eckhard John, David Robb
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    23 October 2020
    Print publication:
    15 October 2020
  • Makes available twenty-two protest songs of the period up to and including the 1848 Revolution in Germany along with a reception history of the songs through their revival after 1945.

The Shepherd, the Volk, and the Middle Class
  • Transformations of Pastoral in German-Language Writing, 1750–1850
  • Elystan Griffiths
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 October 2020
    Print publication:
    15 May 2020
  • Analyzes the transformation of German-language pastoral from a portrayal of the idyllic lives of herdsmen into a vehicle for the concerns and aspirations of the middle class.

German in the World
  • The Transnational and Global Contexts of German Studies
  • Edited by James Hodkinson, Benedict Schofield
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    06 October 2020
    Print publication:
    25 June 2020
  • Weighs the value of Germanophone culture, and its study, in an age of globalization, transnationalism, and academic change.

Genesis
  • The Making of Literary Works from Homer to Christa Wolf
  • T. J. Reed
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    16 September 2020
    Print publication:
    15 September 2020
  • Illuminates how selected great works of literature arose, leading to deepened understanding of the works and harking back to what we still call the humanities.

Beyond Tomorrow
  • German Science Fiction and Utopian Thought in the 20th and 21st Centuries
  • Ingo Cornils
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    16 September 2020
    Print publication:
    15 September 2020
  • Shows German Science Fiction's connections with utopian thought, and how it attempts Zukunftsbewältigung: coping with an uncertain but also unwritten future.

Ludwig Leichhardt's Ghosts
  • The Strange Career of a Traveling Myth
  • Andrew Wright Hurley
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    20 August 2020
    Print publication:
    31 October 2018
  • A fascinating cultural studies account of the "afterlife" of Leichhardt, revealing both German entanglement in British colonialism in Australia, and in a broader sense, what happens when we maintain an open stance to the ghosts of the past.

Robert Musil and the Question of Science
  • Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Problem of the Two Cultures
  • Tim Mehigan
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    26 April 2020
    Print publication:
    15 April 2020
  • A major new study of Robert Musil by one of the world's leading Musil scholars. Musil's extraordinary works, the study reveals, emerged from the problem of the two cultures.

Selected Works by J. M. R. Lenz
  • Plays, Stories, Essays, and Poems
  • Volume 199
  • J. M. R. Lenz, Martin Wagner, Ellwood Wiggins
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    27 March 2020
    Print publication:
    29 March 2019
  • First representative English collection of the Sturm und Drang writer Lenz, suited for the classroom and anyone interested in German literature, the European Enlightenment, or the theory and practice of theater.

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