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"The only German literature journal that presents a coherently feminist perspective and that serves as a forum for feminist voices."_Susanne Zantop, Dartmouth College
Women in German Yearbook is a refereed publication that presents a wide range of feminist approaches to all aspects of German literary, cultural and language studies, including pedagogy. Each issue contains critical studies on the work, history, life, literature and arts of women in the German-speaking world, reflecting the interdisciplinary perspectives that inform feminist German studies.Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres is a professor of German at the University of Minnesota. Patricia Herminghouse is Fuchs Professor emerita of German Studies at the University of Rochester.
Illuminates the treatment of violence in the German cultural tradition between the French Revolution and the Holocaust and Second World War.
In 2016, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that Max Brod’s posthumous papers which included a collection of Kafka’s manuscripts be transferred to the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem. If Kafka’s writings may be seen to belong to Jewish national culture and if they may be considered part of Israel’s heritage, then their analysis within a Jewish framework should be both viable and valuable. This volume is dedicated to the research of Franz Kafka’s late narrative “The Burrow” and its autobiographical and theological significance. Research is extended to incorporate many fields of study (architecture, sound studies, philosophy, cultural studies, Jewish studies, literary studie...
Autobiography, including creative prose pieces.
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In Desire's Sway, James M. McGlathery investigates the role of suppressed sexual desire in the works of the important German author Heinrich von Kleist. In contrast to the past hundred years of Kleist criticism, which has been predominately from the standpoints of ideology, moral philosophy, and abstract thought, McGlathery views Kleist as a subtly ironic humorist. Desire's Sway is a study of Kleist's plays and stories as written in the spirit of the older comic traditions of Lustspiel and commedia dell'arte. Belatedly acknowledged as one of Germany's greatest writers, Kleist has previously been regarded by critics, especially the existentialists, as a deeply troubled writer whose works are expressions of a tragic view of man's destiny in an incomprehensible world. McGlathery provides a well-documented argument that Kleist is not the enigmatic, problematical genius he is often portrayed to be but rather a lighthearted cultivator of the traditions of romantic comedy. The introduction serves as a guide to the various critical assessments of Kleist, and the notes and bibliography supply broad and detailed reference to secondary sources.