"This book casts new light on the work of the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843), and his translations of Greek tragedy. It shows Hölderlin's poetry is unique within Western literature (and art) as it retrieves the socio-politics of a Dionysiac space-time and language t…
A new history of German literature
"German "Popliterature" is deeply indebted to the reception of American pop culture. However, there have been few studies of this connection to date. This volume collects a dozen case studies on the reception of American pop culture from the genre's prehistory in the 1940s and 1…
In German Studies the literary phenomenon of melancholy, which has a longstanding and diverse history in European letters, has typically been associated with the Early Modern and Baroque periods, Romanticism, and the crisis of modernity. This association, alongside the dominant …
"The many catastrophes of German history have often been described as tragic. Consequently, German literature, music, philosophy, painting, and even architecture are rich in tragic connotations. Yet exactly what "tragedy" and "the tragic" may mean requires clarification. The poe…
"Reformer of the church, biblical theologian, and German translator of the Bible Martin Luther had the highest respect for stories attributed to the ancient Greek author Aesop. He assigned them a status second only to the Bible and regarded them as wiser than "the harmful opinio…
This study examines the impact of globalization on Germany's literary field. It investigates how German-language writers born between 1955 and 1975 respond to the pressures of globalizing factors, and how these influence notions of authorship. Germans Going Global offers detaile…
This study examines the impact of globalization on Germany's literary field. It investigates how German-language writers born between 1955 and 1975 respond to the pressures of globalizing factors, and how these influence notions of authorship. The literary marketplace, construct…
"Dances and balls appear throughout world literature as venues for young people to meet, flirt, and form relationships, as any reader of 'Pride and Prejudice', 'War and Peace', or 'Romeo and Juliet' can attest. In the context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Jewish culture, …
"A narrative of German literary history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Examines the intersection of literary and national imagination through the lens of Germany's emerging global networks and how they were rendered in two very different German cities: Ha…