Product Description: A collection of new essays in English by both British and German scholars which compare and contrast East and West German literature, culture and the literary scene. A central concern is whether East and West German literature constitute one coherent or two separate literatures.

Product Description: Sternheim's critics have always been divided: the central problem which his work poses - the question of whether it represents satire or affirmation of the «bürgerlicher Held» - has preoccupied criticism for the last seventy years...read more