Radio Free Stein: Gertrude Stein’s Parlor Plays is a multimedia critical audio collection and performance study that returns us to the music and sound of Gertrude Stein’s theater by way of the modernist medium of radio.
Myths are a central part of our reality. But merely debunking them lets us forget why they are created in the first place and why we need them. André Fischer draws on key examples from German postwar...
Hill’s analysis shows that transnational literary studies must operate on multiple scales, combine distant reading with close analysis, and investigate how literary forms develop on the move.
Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity reads the literary works of the Viennese satirist, journalist, and playwright Karl Kraus (1874–1936) alongside Søren Kierkegaard, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor Adorno.
Biological Modernism details how German writers during the Weimar Republic drew on discourses and tropes from the biological sciences to redefine the human being for a modern, technological age.
Wireless Dada: Telegraphic Poetics in the Avant-Garde is a literary critical study of the telegraph’s effect on the poetics of the Dada movement. This book tracks the influence of the technological and social transformations brought about in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on experiments in poetry.
Olga Peters Hasty’s How Women Must Write provides an insightful analysis of the emergence of women poets in Russia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period of quickly shifting social, political, and cultural conditions.
Lauren Nossett’s The Virginal Mother in German Culture explores the contradictory obsession with female virginity and idealization of maternal nature in Germany from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century.
W. G. Sebald's Postsecular Redemption brings to light certain recurrent ideas scattered through Sebald's writings, including the two-sided question of “cultural redemption” in a supposedly secular world: can culture save us from the catastrophe of history, and/or how can we save our culture in the process?
This study of the novels of Nathanael West begins with the important threads of West’s life and their relationship to his works. James F. Light gives a detailed analysis of each of West's novels, investigating in particular the works' treatment of social criticism and manipulation of dream and symbol.
