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The Aesthetics of Mythmaking in German Postwar Culture
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...
Figures of the World
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
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
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
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.
How Women Must Write
Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
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.
The Virginal Mother in German Culture
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
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?
Nathanael West
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.
Printed Writings by George W. Russell
This bibliography lists the books, paintings, and portraits of the mystic Irish poet George William Russell, best known by his pseudonym, “AE.” Russell was a late nineteenth-and early twentieth century Irish poet and essayist whose first book of poems, Homeward: Songs by the Way (1894), established him in what was known as the Irish Literary Revival.
The Aesthetics of Mythmaking in German Postwar Culture
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...
Figures of the World
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
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
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
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.
How Women Must Write
Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
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.
The Virginal Mother in German Culture
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
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?
Nathanael West
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.
Printed Writings by George W. Russell
This bibliography lists the books, paintings, and portraits of the mystic Irish poet George William Russell, best known by his pseudonym, “AE.” Russell was a late nineteenth-and early twentieth century Irish poet and essayist whose first book of poems, Homeward: Songs by the Way (1894), established him in what was known as the Irish Literary Revival.