German Studies
Mail-Orders
Explores contemporary uses of letters and letter writing—including electronic mail—in literature, film, and art.
Conceptions of Postwar German Masculinity
Examines masculinity in German culture, society, and literature from 1945 to the present.
Valentin Weigel (1533-1588)
This first English-language consideration of Valentin Weigel, an important but neglected figure in German intellectual history, examines his life and his writings on tolerance.
Canetti and Nietzsche
This first full-length study investigates the profound implications of the peculiarly original sense of humor found in Elias Canetti's single novel--a facetiousness, understood in a Nietzschean sense, as a revolutionary aesthetic.
Education in the Third Reich
In its determination to take absolute control, the Third Reich focused on the nation's youth, reserving for the schools the vital task of refashioning the German psyche. This book examines these propaganda ...
German Feminism
Rich, diverse, and complex, this anthology presents the new prose fiction of women from both Germanys and Austria and the working papers of the German women's movement since the late 1960s. The alternation ...