Product Description: This new volume in the series Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, entitled "Exile and Gender: Literature and the Press," edited by Charmian Brinson and Andrea Hammel, focuses on the work of exiled women writers and journalists as well as on gendered representations in the writing of both male and female exiled writers...read more

Product Description: Die Vorträge eines internationalen Symposiums, das unter dem Titel «Indien in den deutschsprachigen Literaturen - Wahrnehmungsperspektiven» im Herbst 2009 an der Deutschabteilung der Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi veranstaltet wurde, stehen im Mittelpunkt dieses Bandes...read more

Product Description: Trotz ihres vielfach prognostizierten Niedergangs ist die Familie als soziales System bis heute eine zentrale Kategorie der Selbstwahrnehmung. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes setzen sich mit literarischen Repräsentationen dieses Zusammenspiels zwischen Familie und individueller Identität auseinander und gehen dabei besonders auf Liebes- und Ehevorstellungen, Generations- und Gender-Konzepte sowie die Verarbeitung historischer Prozesse im Medium der Familie ein...read more

During the Nazi era many German writers chose, or were forced into, exile. Many others stayed and, after the end of this period, claimed to have retreated into 'Inner Emigration.' The nature of this kind of emigration and the underlying motives of these writers have been hotly debated to this day. Though the reception of Inner Emigration has often been confounded by disputes over the term itself, the issue is ultimately not a matter of nomenclature, but of more far-reaching issues of literary evaluation, moral discernment and the writing of history. This volume presents, for the first time to an English-speaking readership, the complexity of Inner Emigration. This is achieved through the analysis of problematic individual cases of writers who, under constant pressure from a watchful dictatorship to conform and to collaborate, were caught between conscience and compromise.

Product Description: Most of the chapters in this volume were delivered as papers at a conference on the same theme held at the University of Kent in April 2002. The essays collected here, by scholars from the UK, Ireland, Germany, and the US, address a topic of fundamental concern across all the disciplines engaged with the study of contemporary Germany: the evolving relationship between urban and rural space, the metropolitan centre and the provincial Heimat...read more

Product Description: "German Studies in the Post-Holocaust Age" assesses the post-war transformation of German studies from 1945–1995. Essays address the intersecting problems of nationalism and antisemitism in modern and contemporary Germany; innovative views on the hybrid state of German cultural production and the German "Other"; and insights into the apparently "forbidden" areas of artistic creation after Adorno's initial anti–graven image dictum in the face of Shoah atrocities...read more

Product Description: Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien CUTG Proceedings. Vol. 4 General Editor: Ian Foster

Product Description: Changes discernible in German-language literature in the late 1990s are examined with particular emphasis on its international profile and the emergence of popular forms. Unification has not led to a homogeneous ‘German’ literature...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Eighteen essays by scholars from Austria, Germany and the United Kingdom examine the interrelationships between literature, markets and media in contemporary Germany and Austria. A series of studies of individual writers (Baumann, Jurek Becker, Jürgen Becker, Brinkmann, Enzensberger, Grass, Hettche, Menasse, Ransmayr, Reichart, Rühmkorf, Strauß, Tekinay, Wander, Wolf) is complemented by broader analyses of the responsibilities of the intellectual in this context, the operation of the ‘Literaturbetrieb’ (the function of literary prizes between the fields of culture and the economy; the perspectives of the publisher in identifying new trends; the book as market commodity), and the impact of ‘Medienwirtschaft’ on literature, society and the theatre...read more

Product Description: These essays by British, German, and Austrian scholars explore the salient features of a literature reviving after a period of de-stabilization which was at once political and aesthetic. German unity coincided with generational changes among writers, reappraisals of the role of literature in an era of 'post-modern' challenges, and reassessments of the historical roles of Austria and Switzerland...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)