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GERMANSTUDIES
2019-20
German Film ClassicsFitzcarraldo, Wings of Desire, and Phoenix
Women in PowerThe Realities of German Female Leadership
Red ViennaAn encyclopedic sourcebook of the period
40 Years of Camden HouseHighlights from our list
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And the Shark, He Has Teeth AUFRICHT / BLOCH 8Anneliese Landau’s Life in Music HIRSCH 11Austria Made in Hollywood VANSANT 9Bach and Mozart MARSHALL 11Beethoven’s Conversation Books ALBRECHT 11Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 43 WESSENDORF 8Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 44 WESSENDORF 8Celluloid Revolt GERHARDT / ABEL 9Communicative Event in the Works of Günter Grass THESZ 6Critical History of German Film, 2nd edition BROCKMANN 3Edinburgh German Yearbook 13 DONOVAN / EUCHNER 11End-Times in Medieval German Literature HINTZ / PINCIKOWSKI 4Film and Fashion amidst the Ruins of Berlin GANEVA 9Films of Konrad Wolf POWELL 9Fitzcarraldo KOEPNICK 10Forgotten Dreams JOHNSON 9Fractured Frontiers JATO / KLAPPER 5Gentle Apocalypse MILLINGTON 7German in the World HODKINSON / SCHOFIELD 6Goethe Yearbook 26 SIMPSON / TAUTZ 8Goethe Yearbook 27 SIMPSON / TAUTZ 8Golem, How He Came into the World BARZILAI 10Günter Grass and His Critics MEWS 6Kafka after Kafka BRUCE / GELBER 7Karl Muck Scandal BURRAGE 11Long Shadow of the Past KRYLOVA 5Mountains and the German Mind IRETON / SCHAUMANN 4Moving Images on the Margins HOWES 9New Poems RILKE / KRISAK 7Nonconformist Writing in Nazi Germany KLAPPER 5Novel Affinities ELDRIDGE 4Phoenix PRAGER 10Realities and Fantasies of German Female Leadership KRIMMER / SIMPSON 3Red Vienna Sourcebook ZECHNER / SPITALER / MCFARLAND 3Renegotiating Postmemory LIZARAZU 5Robert Musil and the Question of Science MEHIGAN 5Selected Works by J. M. R. Lenz LENZ / WAGNER / WIGGINS 8Shepherd, the Volk, and the Middle Class GRIFFITHS 4Short Story in German in the Twenty-First Century MARVEN / PLOWMAN / ROY 7Songs for a Revolution JOHN / ROBB 6Telemann Compendium ZOHN 11Transatlantic German Studies LÜTZELER / HÖYNG 6Transformation and Education in the Literature of the GDR CONACHER 7Tzvetan Todorov DE BERG / ZBINDEN 5Virtual Walls? LYS / DREYER 7What Remains OSBORNE 4Wings of Desire ROGOWSKI 10Writing the Revolution CORNILS 6Writing the Self, Creating Community KRIMMER / NOSSETT 4
Front Cover: “Under the Bridge”: the Prater Bridge suspended footway over the Danube, Vienna © 2019 Stuart Marven. Cover image of The Short Story in German in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Lyn Marven, Andrew Plowman, and Kate Roy (see page 7).Image credit page 3, German Film Classics: Movie print with soundtrack on 35-mm b&w positive film ‘Svema’, via Wikimedia Commons.
INFORMATION This catalogue lists all new Boydell & Brewer German Studies titles scheduled for publication from 2019 to June 2020, as well as a selection of backlist titles. Further information on all titles, including lists of contents and contributors, can be found on our website www.boydellandbrewer.com.Prices and details were correct at time of catalogue production but are subject to change without notice. Dimensions are listed as 9 x 6 in and 23.4 x 15.6 cm.
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HIGHLIGHTS
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A Critical History of German Film, 2nd editionSTEPHEN BRO CKMANN
The most comprehensive, readable history of German cinema now appears in an expanded, up-to-date new edition that is particularly useful for students and teachers of German film history.From early masterpieces such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) and Metropolis (1927) to the post-1945 films of Fassbinder, Herzog, and Wenders, German film constitutes a crucial part of the history of world cinema. It helped
to shape Hollywood cinema and had a major impact on other cinemas as well. Popular in college classrooms and among general-interest readers, this book is the most comprehensive and readable introduction to the history of German cinema. There is no other book that covers the history of German cinema in the same depth and also explores the genesis and meaning of the most important masterpieces in German film history. Chapters are devoted to each of thirty-two individual films, and seven interchapters provide context for historical periods from early German cinema to postunification. The book now appears in an up-to-date second edition that covers five additional films, expands the coverage of women’s cinema, and brings the history of filmmaking in Germany up to the present moment. The book is specifically designed to appeal to cinema aficionados and for use in college classrooms, where it has been greeted with acclaim by students and teachers alike.STEPHEN BROCKMANN is Professor of German at Carnegie Mellon University.$60.00/£29.95 April 2020, 978 1 57113 326 748 b/w illus.; 632pp, 9 x 6, PBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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Realities and Fantasies of German Female LeadershipFrom Maria Antonia of Saxony to Angela MerkelEdited by ELISABETH KRIMMER & PATRICIA ANNE SIMPSON
A collection of essays achieving a deeper understanding of the historical roots and theoretical assumptions that inform the realities and fantasies of German female leadership. Even today, resistance to women holding power is embedded in literary, cultural, and historical values that presume a fundamental opposition between the adjective “female” and the substantive “leader.” Women who do
achieve positions of leadership are faced with a panoply of prejudicial misconceptions: either considered incapable of leadership (conceived of as alpha-male behavior), or pigeonholed as suited only to particular forms of leadership (nurturing, cooperative, egalitarian, communicative, etc.).Focusing on the German-speaking countries, this volume works to dismantle the prevailing disassociation of women and leadership across a range of disciplines. Contributions discuss literary works involving women’s political authority and cultivation of community from Maria Antonia of Saxony to Elfriede Jelinek; women’s social activism, as embodied by figures from Hedwig Dohm to Rosa Luxemburg; women in political film, environmentalism, neoliberalism, and the media from Leni Riefenstahl to Petra Kelly to Maren Ade; and political leaders Hillary Clinton and Angela Merkel. ELISABETH KRIMMER is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis. PATRICIA ANNE SIMPSON is Professor of German at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.$99.00/£80.00 September 2019, 978 1 64014 065 38 b/w illus.; 400pp, 9 x 6, HBWomen and Gender in German Studies
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The Red Vienna SourcebookEdited by INGO ZECHNER , GEORG SPITALER & ROB MCFARLAND
An encyclopedic selection of original documents from the Austrian capital’s pathbreaking, progressive interwar period, translated and with contextualizing introductions and commentaries.The current blockbuster German TV series Babylon Berlin introduces viewers to the tumultuous period in German history known as the Weimar Republic. Critics have praised the series for its relevance to the present: it shows dark
populist forces undermining a fragile democracy. While Weimar Germany makes a fascinating backdrop, its story does not inspire much hope for our present-day political and cultural woes.A fascinating contrast is the Austrian capital, Vienna. After the First World War the former imperial city elected a Social Democratic majority that persisted into the 1930s. “Red Vienna” undertook large-scale experiments in public housing, hygiene, and education, while maintaining a world-class presence in music, literature, art, culture, and science. Though Red Vienna eventually fell victim to fascist violence, it left a rich legacy with potential to inform our own tumultuous times.The Red Vienna Sourcebook provides scholars and students with an encyclopedic selection of key documents from the period, carefully translated and introduced. The thirty-six chapters include primary works from canonical names such as Sigmund Freud and Arthur Schnitzler but also introductions to lesser-known figures such as sociologist Käthe Leichter and health-policy pioneer Julius Tandler. The documents will be of interest to such diverse disciplines as economics, architecture, music, film history, philosophy, women’s studies, sports and body culture, and Jewish studies.INGO ZECHNER is Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History. GEORG SPITALER is a researcher at the Austrian Labor History Society. ROB MCFARLAND is Professor of German Literature, Film and Culture at Brigham Young University.November 2019Hardcover: $120.00/£95.00, 978 1 57113 355 7Paperback: $49.95/£30.00, 978 1 64014 067 750 b/w illus.; 904pp, 10 x 7, HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
GERMAN FILM CLASSICSA new paperback series from
Camden House for enthusiasts, students, and scholars of German cinema.
The series is available to browse on page 10, including the upcoming books on Wings of Desire, Fitzcarraldo, and Phoenix.
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LITERATURE
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Writing the Self, Creating CommunityGerman Women Authors and the Literary Sphere, 1750-1850Edited by ELISABETH KRIMMER & LAUREN NOSSET T
Beginning in the 1770s, the German literary market experienced unprecedented growth. The enormous demand for reading materials that accompanied this burgeoning market created new opportunities for women
writers. At the same time, they still faced numerous obstacles. The new opportunities and limitations imposed on women writers are the subject of this book. The contributors bring to life the collaborative literary world of female writers through explorations of familial and professional mentorships, salons, and writing circles, and consider how women writers positioned themselves within the emerging literary marketplace.ELISABETH KRIMMER is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis. LAUREN NOSSETT is Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Randolph-Macon College.$99.00/£80.00 April 2020978 8 20001 017 3300pp, 9 x 6, HBWomen and Gender in German Studies
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Novel AffinitiesComposing the Family in the German Novel, 1795-1830SARAH VANDEGRIFT ELDRID GE
The novel, according to standard scholarly narratives, depicts an individual’s path to maturity. Scholarship on the rise of the novel in Germany and in Europe has essentially collapsed the genre into the individualist Bildungsroman, exemplified by
an extremely narrow canon. This study challenges and nuances this narrative, first by expanding the focus from the individual to the family, second by broadening the field of novels under consideration to include not only canonical works but also so-called trivial literature, and third by reading novels alongside contemporary biological, legal, and pedagogical texts.SARAH VANDEGRIFT ELDRIDGE is Associate Professor of German at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.$85.00/£65.00 May 2016978 1 57113 959 7212pp, 9 x 6, HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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The End-Times in Medieval German LiteratureSin, Evil, and the ApocalypseEdited by ERNST RALF HINTZ & SCOT T E. PINCIKOWSKI
The contemporary fascination with the end of the world and of life as we know it would not have surprised our counterparts a millennium ago; only the fact that such an end has not yet occurred. This book explores how end-times were envisioned
in medieval Germany. Drawing upon methodologies including adaptation theory, gender analysis, space and place studies, reception studies, and memory studies, the essays in this book uncover the rhetorical, didactic, narratological, mnemonic, thematic, cultural, and political functions of end-times in medieval German texts.ERNST RALF HINTZ is Professor of German and Medieval Studies at Truman State University. SCOTT E. PINCIKOWSKI is Professor of German at Hood College.$95.00/£75.00 December 2019978 1 57113 989 42 b/w illus.; 302pp, 9 x 6, HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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What RemainsThe Post-Holocaust Archive in German Memory CultureD ORA OSB ORNE
With the passing of those who witnessed National Socialism and the Holocaust, the archive matters as never before. This book argues that memory culture in the Berlin Republic is marked by an archival turn that reflects the shift from embodied
to externalized, material memory and responds to the particular status of the archive “after Auschwitz.” In its discussion of recent memorials, documentaries, and prose narratives that engage with the material legacy of the Nazi past, it argues that “archive work” is not only crucial to contemporary memory work but also fundamentally challenges it.DORA OSBORNE is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of St. Andrews.$90.00/£75.00 February 2020978 1 64014 052 35 b/w illus.; 236pp, 9 x 6, HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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The Shepherd, the Volk, and the Middle ClassTransformations of Pastoral in German-Language Writing, 1750-1850ELYSTAN GRIFFITHS
European pastoral tradition traces its roots to Theocritus’s “Idylls” and Virgil’s “Eclogues,” which portrayed the lives of herdsmen pursuing love and art. While the ostensible subject of pastoral is the lives of shepherds, or of country folk generally,
Elystan Griffiths argues that the central concerns of German-language pastoral between 1750 and 1850 were really those of an emergent, nationally minded, creative middle class. These concerns became increasingly urgent in the face of the upheaval of the French Revolution and the need to respond to the rise of capitalist modernity. The book traces how pastoral was transformed in the work of major authors, including Gessner, “Maler” Müller, J.H. Voss, Goethe, Kleist, Mörike, and Nestroy.ELYSTAN GRIFFITHS is Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham.$99.00/£80.00 March 2020978 1 64014 064 6326pp, 9 x 6, HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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Mountains and the German MindTranslations from Gessner to Messner, 1541-2009Edited by SEAN IRETON & CAROLINE SCHAUMANN
Mountains have occupied a central place in German, Swiss, and Austrian intellectual culture for centuries. This volume offers the first scholarly English translations of thirteen key texts from the Germanophone tradition of engagement with
mountains. Spanning nearly five centuries, these texts encompass several discursive modes of the mountain experience including geographical descriptions, philosophical meditations, aesthetic deliberations, and autobiographical climbing narratives. Well-known figures covered include Conrad Gessner, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, G.W.F. Hegel, Alexander von Humboldt, Georg Simmel, Leni Riefenstahl, and Reinhold Messner.SEAN IRETON (University of Missouri) and CAROLINE SCHAUMANN (Emory University) are also the editors of Heights of Reflection: Mountains in the German Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century (2012).$90.00/£75.00 May 2020978 1 64014 047 925 b/w illus.; 382pp, 9 x 6, HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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LITERATURE
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Robert Musil and the Question of ScienceEthics, Aesthetics, and the Problem of the Two CulturesTIM MEHIGAN
The work of the Austrian author Robert Musil (1880-1942) is devoted to the problem of two opposed cultures of understanding – those of art and science. Mehigan’s study lends new clarity to the two cultures debate by shining a
light on the ethical questions Musil ultimately wished to clarify. It is the shape of a hard-won ethics, Mehigan argues, that provides the key to an effective response to the problem of the two cultures – an ethics, in the end, that can only be put forward as a new kind of art.TIM MEHIGAN is Professor of German and Deputy Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland, Australia.$90.00/£75.00 May 2020978 1 64014 066 0196pp, 9 x 6, HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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The Long Shadow of the PastContemporary Austrian Literature, Film, and CultureKAT YA KRYLOVA
2018 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleAustria is still coming to terms with its National Socialist past. Only over the past thirty years, beginning with the Waldheim affair of 1986-1988, has the country’s view of its role during
the Third Reich shifted from that of victimhood to complicity. Austria’s writers, filmmakers, and artists have been at the center of this process, holding up a mirror to the country’s present and drawing attention to a still-disturbing past. Katya Krylova’s book undertakes close readings of key contemporary Austrian literary texts, films, and memorials that treat the legacy of Nazism and the Holocaust.KATYA KRYLOVA is Lecturer in German, Film and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen, UK.$29.95/£19.99 February 2020978 1 64014 073 8214pp, 9 x 6, PBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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Renegotiating PostmemoryThe Holocaust in Contemporary German-Language Jewish LiteratureMARIA RO CA LIZARAZU
In the shifting media landscape of the twenty-first century, the second and third generations of German-language Jewish authors are grappling with the disappearance of the eyewitness generation and the hyper-mediation and globalization of
Holocaust memory. Benjamin Stein, Maxim Biller, Vladmir Vertlib, and Eva Menasse each experiment with new approaches towards Holocaust representation and the Nazi past. This book investigates major shifts in Holocaust memory since the turn of the millennium, and offers a much-needed reassessment of key concepts and terms in Holocaust discourse such as authenticity, empathy, normalization, representation, traumatic unspeakability, and postmemory.MARIA ROCA LIZARAZU is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham, UK. $90.00/£75.00 March 2020978 1 64014 045 5240pp, 9 x 6, HBDialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature, Culture & Thought
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Tzvetan TodorovThinker and HumanistEdited by HENK DE BERG & KARINE ZBINDEN
Originally known for his groundbreaking work in literary studies, the Bulgarian-born French scholar Tzvetan Todorov (1939-2017) was one of the world’s foremost cultural theorists. His interventions cover an astounding range of
topics, from narratology to ethics, from painting to politics, and from the Enlightenment to current affairs. Written by an international team of experts, this volume – the first-ever comprehensive examination of Todorov as a cultural critic – discusses the crucial elements of his work as well as his place in European thought.HENK DE BERG is Professor of German at the University of Sheffield, UK; KARINE ZBINDEN teaches French language and culture at the same university. $99.00/£80.00 April 2020978 1 57113 996 2290pp, 9 x 6, HB
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Fractured FrontiersThe Exile Writing of Nazi Germany and Francoist SpainMONICA JATO & JOHN KLAPPER
The history of literary exile under both Nazism and Francoism has been characterized by an acrimonious distinction between territorial exiles, who left their country, and “inner exiles,” who did not. This study adopts a unique
cross-cultural approach, challenging the traditional divide, demonstrating similarities not only between “inner” and “outer” in each national setting but also between the German and Spanish contexts themselves. It offers new perspectives on the literary historiography of Germany and Spain, showing how, in the impact and consequences of dictatorship, the histories of the two countries intersect.MÓNICA JATO is Senior Lecturer and JOHN KLAPPER Professor in the Department of Modern Languages, University of Birmingham, UK.$99.00/£80.00 June 2020978 1 64014 051 610 b/w illus.; 304pp, 9 x 6, HB
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Nonconformist Writing in Nazi GermanyThe Literature of Inner EmigrationJOHN KLAPPER
2016 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleStudies of literary responses to National Socialism have largely focused on exiled writers; opposition within Germany and Austria is less well understood. Yet in both countries there were
writers who continued to publish imaginative literature that did not conform to Nazi precepts: the authors of the so-called Inner Emigration. They withdrew from the regime and sought to express their noncomformity through camouflaged texts designed to offer sensitized readers encouragement, reassurance, and consolation. This book provides an innovative, critical, historically informed, yet accessible reassessment of these writers.JOHN KLAPPER is Professor in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham, UK.$34.95/£25.00 March 2019978 1 64014 054 78 b/w illus.; 464pp, 9 x 6, PBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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Günter Grass and His CriticsFrom The Tin Drum to CrabwalkSIEGFRIED MEWS
When the Swedish Academy awarded Günter Grass the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature, it singled out his first novel The Tin Drum (1959) as a seminal work that had signaled the postwar rebirth of German letters. It remains the most
popular of Grass’s works of fiction with readers and critics alike, and it – along with Grass’s impressive body of subsequent work – has spawned a cottage industry of criticism, making a reliable guide through the thicket of sometimes contradictory readings a desideratum. Siegfried Mews fills this lacuna via a detailed but succinct, descriptive as well as analytical and evaluative overview of the academic and popular-press criticism from 1959 to 2005.SIEGFRIED MEWS is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.$34.95/£25.00 March 2018978 1 64014 039 4434pp, 9 x 6, PBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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The Communicative Event in the Works of Günter GrassStages of Speech, 1959-2015NICOLE A. THESZ
Günter Grass was a towering figure among German writers and social critics from the 1950s until his death in 2015. He assumed the role of the conscience of the German nation, and arguably kept it despite multiple controversies.
This monograph argues that the ethos of “speaking out” is fundamental to Grass’s life and work. His approach to the dynamics and manifestations of speech acts has been marginalized in Grass criticism, but is crucial to understanding his fiction. Looking back at Grass’s career, this book identifies four phases of his writing in terms of communicative strategy and style. NICOLE A. THESZ is Associate Professor of German at Miami University, Ohio.$90.00/£75.00 February 2018978 1 57113 956 6306pp, 9 x 6, HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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Songs for a RevolutionThe German Protest Tradition of 1848ECKHARD JOHN & DAVID ROBB
The socially volatile period of the Vormärz and the 1848 Revolution in Germany produced a wealth of political protest song. This book makes available twenty-two protest songs from that time, both lyrics and melodies. It also charts the
history of their reception – from their point of origin up until their revival in the folk and political song movements of East and West Germany. That appropriation of the songs has shaped today’s cultural memory of the 1848 period, which in turn illuminates the functioning of political ideology in these reception processes.ECKHARD JOHN is Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Popular Culture and Music at the University of Freiburg. DAVID ROBB is Senior Lecturer in Music at Queens University Belfast.$99.00/£80.00 June 2020978 1 64014 048 640 b/w illus.; 314pp, 9 x 6, HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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Writing the RevolutionThe Construction of “1968” in GermanyINGO CORNILS
In Germany, the concept of “1968” is enduring and synonymous with the German Student Movement, and is viewed, variously, as a fundamental liberalization, a myth, a second foundation, or an irritation. While the
movement has been judged at best a “successful failure,” cultural elites continue to engage in the construction of 1968. This book argues that writing about 1968 in Germany is no longer about the historical events or the specific objectives of a bygone counterculture, but is instead a moral touchstone, a marker of social group identity that keeps alive (or at bay) a utopian agenda that continues to fire the imagination.INGO CORNILS is Professor of German Studies at the University of Leeds.$29.95/£19.99 February 2020978 1 64014 071 41 b/w illus.; 328pp, 9 x 6, PBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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German in the WorldA Culture in National, Transnational, and Global ContextsEdited by JAMES HODKINSON & BENEDICT SCHOFIELD
What happens when the geographic, linguistic, and temporal boundaries that are used to define German-language culture are questioned by global perspectives? This book considers the transformation of the German language canon, the
global value of German Studies as an interdisciplinary subject, and the impact of both on organizations beyond the academy. Placing German-language culture at the heart of debates on transnational and World Literature, the contributions demonstrate how locating German Studies in its wider global context results not in a discipline undone, but in a discipline reinvigorated.JAMES HODKINSON is Associate Professor in German at Warwick University. BENEDICT SCHOFIELD is Reader in German at King’s College London.$90.00/£75.00 June 2020978 1 64014 033 213 b/w illus.; 360pp, 9 x 6, HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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Transatlantic German StudiesTestimonies to the ProfessionEdited by PAUL MICHAEL LÜTZELER & PETER HÖYNG
The decisive contribution of the exile generation of the 1930s and ’40s to German Studies in the US is well known. This volume focuses on the next generation(s) of scholars, from the US and overseas, many mentored by the exile
generation. The exiles knew vividly the value of the humanities; following generations, though spared the experience of catastrophe, have found formidable challenges in maintaining the field in a time dismissive of that value. The prominent scholar-contributors share their experiences of the field as well as their thoughts on the role of literature and of interdisciplinarity, pluralism, diversity, and transatlantic dialogue.PAUL MICHAEL LÜTZELER is Rosa May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities at Washington University, St. Louis. PETER HÖYNG is Associate Professor of German at Emory University.$90.00/£75.00 September 2018978 1 64014 012 7300pp, 9 x 6, HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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Transformation and Education in the Literature of the GDRJEAN E. CONACHER
Perhaps never has a state emphasized education to citizenship more than in the German Democratic Republic. For forty years, educational and cultural policy played a pivotal role in efforts to build and sustain the socialist state. Party
and state held teachers and writers responsible for demonstrating socialism’s superiority, infusing pupils and readers with a commitment to the state, and modeling der neue Mensch each was challenged to become. This book shows that understanding representations of educational transformation in GDR literature is central to an aesthetic appreciation of that literature more broadly.JEAN E. CONACHER is Senior Lecturer in German within the School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of Limerick, Ireland.$85.00/£65.00 January 2020978 1 57113 955 9276pp, 9 x 6, HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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Virtual Walls?Political Unification and Cultural Difference in Contemporary GermanyEdited by FRANZISKA LYS & MICHAEL DREYER
This volume analyzes the cultural transformation – or lack thereof – that has followed the political unification of East and West Germany. The contributions are interdisciplinary: essays on history and politics provide a
framework and others on art, film, literature, museums, music, and education provide specific examples. These case studies allow us to assess the state of unification beyond statistics, opinion polls, and glib generalizations. The result is a reassessment of the journey Germans in East and West have taken during the past three decades.FRANZISKA LYS is Professor of German at Northwestern University. MICHAEL DREYER is Professor in the Institute for Political Science at the University of Jena. $90.00/£75.00 December 2017978 1 57113 980 19 b/w illus.; 212pp, 9 x 6, HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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The Gentle ApocalypseTruth and Meaning in the Poetry of Georg TraklRICHARD MILLINGTON
Georg Trakl (1887-1914) typically couched his vision of the end of days in images of migrating birds, abandoned houses, and closing eyelids, making his poetry at once apocalyptic, rustic, and intimate. The argument made in this
study is that this vision amounts to a unitary worldview with tightly interwoven affective, ethical, social, historical, and cosmological dimensions. Through close readings of poems covering the span of his lyric output, it traces the evolution of Trakl’s distinctive style and themes across different phases while attending closely to biographical and cultural contexts.RICHARD MILLINGTON is Senior Lecturer in German at Victoria University of Wellington (Aotearoa New Zealand). He is the author of Snow from Broken Eyes: Cocaine in the Lives and Works of Three Expressionist Poets (2012).$85.00/£65.00 February 2020978 1 57113 588 9290pp, 9 x 6, HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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New PoemsRAINER MARIA RILKE, Translated by LEN KRISAK, Introduction by GEORGE C. SCHO OLFIELD
Rilke’s New Poems of 1907 and 1908 mark a transition from his late-nineteenth-century style and his appearance as a lyrical, metaphysical poet of the modernist sensibility. Here Rilke often uses traditional forms like the sonnet to explore the inner
essence, the deep heart, of things – often, quite literally, things. This translation follows, as closely as English allows, the formal properties of the original poems, in a line-for-line version, while trying to capture the spare diction and direct idioms of modernism.LEN KRISAK is a recipient of the Richard Wilbur, Robert Penn Warren, and Robert Frost prizes in poetry. He has published more than five hundred poems, including translations from the Latin, Greek, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and German.$24.95/£19.99 July 2018978 1 64014 041 7434pp, 9 x 6, PBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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The Short Story in German in the Twenty-First CenturyEdited by LYN MARVEN, ANDREW PLOWMAN & KATE ROY
Since the 1990s, the short story has re-emerged in the German-speaking world as a vibrant literary genre. This volume aims to establish a framework for further research into this rich field. The introduction and six thematic
chapters discuss theories of the short-story form, literary-aesthetic questions, and key trends in the twenty-first century. Seven chapters on significant literary figures from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland then offer a range of theoretical and thematic approaches to individual stories and collections. Finally, two original translations showcase contemporary short-story writing in German.LYN MARVEN and ANDREW PLOWMAN are both Senior Lecturers in German at the University of Liverpool. KATE ROY is Adjunct Professor in Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Franklin University Switzerland.$95.00/£75.00 June 2020978 1 64014 046 2328pp, 9 x 6, HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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Kafka after KafkaDialogical Engagement with His Works from the Holocaust to PostmodernismEdited by IRIS BRUCE & MARK H. GELBER
The topic of “Kafka after Kafka” is a fascinating one: the engagement of artists, philosophers, and critics in dialogical exchange with Kafka’s works. The new essays in this collection highlight the engagement of lesser known
artists and commentators with Kafka, and represents those who are well known, such as Arendt, Blanchot, Nabokov, and Coetzee, from new perspectives. The eleven essays contained here represent the most recent scholarly engagements with this topic. IRIS BRUCE is Associate Professor of German at McMaster University. MARK H. GELBER is Senior Professor and Director of the Center for Austrian and German Studies at Ben-Gurion University.$90.00/£75.00 February 2019978 1 57113 981 814 b/w illus.; 240pp, 9 x 6, HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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Selected Works by J. M. R. LenzPlays, Stories, Essays, and PoemsJ. M. R . LENZ Edited/translated by MARTIN WAGNER & ELLWO OD WIGGINS
Crucial in the reinvention of German literature through the reception of Shakespeare, the works of Sturm und Drang writer J. M. R. Lenz (1751-1792) contain a scathing critique of the ethical, political, and sexual regimes prevailing in Central
and Eastern Europe during Lenz’s short lifetime. Both aesthetically and politically, Lenz strongly influenced later German writers – most notably Büchner and Brecht – and he is still widely read and performed in Germany today. This first representative English collection of Lenz’s works is a valuable resource for classroom use and for anyone interested in German literature, the European Enlightenment, or the theory and practice of theater.MARTIN WAGNER is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Calgary. ELLWOOD WIGGINS is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Washington.$85.00/£65.00 March 2019978 1 57113 993 1380pp, 9 x 6, HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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And the Shark, He Has TeethA Theater Producer’s NotesERNST JOSEF AUFRICHT Translated by BENJAMIN BLO CH Introduction by MARC SILBERMAN
This is the first English translation of the memoirs of the great German-Jewish theater producer Ernst Josef Aufricht. The title alludes to Brecht and Weill’s blockbuster Threepenny Opera, the premiere of which was produced by Aufricht in
Berlin in 1928. The book is most notable for its insider’s account of the Berlin theater scene of the late 1920s and early 30s. Its sweep, from Aufricht’s school years to his long years of exile in France and America, gives a picture of a complex individual with a talent for survival and a winningly understated sense of humor.BENJAMIN BLOCH is a clinical psychologist who studied German and English Literature at Oberlin College. MARC SILBERMAN is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin.$29.95/£19.99 October 2018978 1 64014 017 214 b/w illus.; 208pp, 9 x 6, HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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Goethe Yearbook 27Edited by PATRICIA ANNE SIMPSON & BIRGIT TAUTZ
Volume 27 features a Forum section that discusses the impact of Digital Humanities on Goethe scholarship and on eighteenth-century German Studies more broadly. Contributors to this first Forum consider the canon in
comparison to “the great unread.” Beyond this section, there are articles on Goethe’s self-marketing, on several of his major works, and on pivotal topics in them; on nascent anthropology, on Creativity Studies, and on Rahel Levin Varnhagen and Karl Phillip Moritz. A newly discovered text by Kotzebue, sample entries from the Lexikon of Philosophical Concepts, and book reviews round out the volume.PATRICIA ANNE SIMPSON is Professor of German at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. BIRGIT TAUTZ is George Taylor Files Professor of Modern Languages at Bowdoin College.$85.00/£65.00 June 2020978 1 64014 061 5330pp, 9 x 6, HBGoethe Yearbook
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Goethe Yearbook 26Edited by PATRICIA ANNE SIMPSON & BIRGIT TAUTZ
Volume 26 features a special section on Goethe’s narrative events, with contributions on uncanny narrating in the ballads, the absence of events in Die Wahlverwandtschaften, and his Novelle in the aftershock of Kleist. It also showcases work
presented at the 2017 Atkins Goethe Conference (Re-Orientations around Goethe), including essays by Eva Geulen on morphology and by W. Daniel Wilson on the Goethe Society of Weimar in the Third Reich. Finally, there are articles on Klopstock, Schiller, Goethe and objects, dark green ecology, and texts of the Goethezeit and beyond through the lens of world literature, plus book reviews.$85.00/£65.00 June 2019978 1 64014 049 3354pp, 9 x 6, HBGoethe Yearbook
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The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 44Edited by MARKUS WESSEND ORF
Volume 44 features the first publication of Günter Kunert’s translation, with annotations by Brecht, of Edgar Lee Masters’s poem “The Hill.” A special section, “Brecht’s Dramatic Fragments,” addresses individual and collectivist
resistance in Fatzer, the fragmentary aesthetic of Fleischhacker, and the first English translation and performance of the David fragments. The section “Pure Joke: The Comedy of Theater since Brecht,” features articles on The Good Person of Szechwan, Heiner Müller’s Hamletmachine, the harlequin and the chorus in post-Brechtian performance, and performative quotation in contemporary reality-satire. The volume also includes essays on The Debts of Mister Julius Caesar, Heiner Müller’s “Keuneresque” interview strategies, the 1962 world premiere of The Threepenny Opera in Yiddish, and Brecht’s reception of Mao Tse-tung in two of his poems.MARKUS WESSENDORF is a Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa in Honolulu.$54.95/£40.00 November 2019978 0 98519 567 012 b/w illus.; 288pp, 9 x 6, PBBrecht Yearbook
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The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 43Edited by MARKUS WESSEND ORF
Volume 43 of the Brecht Yearbook, the leading scholarly forum on Brecht and topics of interest to him, features a reconstruction of Brecht’s two-chorus The Exception and the Rule, four articles on Brechtian aspects of Gisela
Elsner’s novels, and two on Brecht’s reflections on affect and empathy. There are also several papers from the 2016 IBS “Recycling Brecht” Symposium, as well as pieces on Brecht’s Life of Galileo and on Bernd Stegemann’s allegedly Brechtian critical realism. An interview with the Chinese dramaturg, playwright, and Brecht translator Li Jianming concludes the volume.$49.95/£40.00 November 2018978 0 98519 566 34 b/w illus.; 350pp, 9 x 6, PBBrecht Yearbook
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Forgotten DreamsRevisiting Romanticism in the Cinema of Werner HerzogLAURIE RUTH JOHNSON
Werner Herzog (b. 1942) is perhaps the most famous living German filmmaker, but his films have never been read in the context of German cultural history. Until now. Forgotten Dreams offers not only an analytical study of Herzog’s
films but also a new reading of Romanticism’s impact beyond the nineteenth century. The result is a lively reconnection with Romantic themes and convictions that have been partly forgotten in the midst of Germany’s postwar rejection of much of Romantic thought, yet are still operative in German culture today.LAURIE RUTH JOHNSON is Professor of German, Comparative and World Literature, and Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.$29.95/£19.99 August 2019978 1 64014 063 925 b/w illus.; 312pp, 9 x 6, PBScreen Cultures: German Film and the Visual
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Celluloid Revolt German Screen Cultures and the Long 1968Edited by CHRISTINA GERHARDT & MARCO ABEL
The epoch-making revolutionary period universally known in Germany as ’68 can be argued to have predated that year and to have extended well into the 1970s. It continues to affect German and Austrian society and culture to this day.
Yet while scholars have written extensively about 1968 and the cinema of other countries, relatively little sustained scholarly attention has thus far been paid to 1968 and West German, East German, and Austrian cinemas. Celluloid Revolt sets out to redress that situation, generating new insights into what constituted German-language cinema around 1968 and beyond.CHRISTINA GERHARDT is Associate Professor of German and Film Studies at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. MARCO ABEL is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.$99.00/£80.00 April 2019978 1 57113 995 526 b/w illus.; 338pp, 9 x 6, HBScreen Cultures: German Film and the Visual
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Austria Made in HollywoodJACQUELINE VANSANT
Maria von Trapp, watching the final scene of The Sound of Music for the first time as “her” family escaped into Switzerland, exclaimed, “Don’t they know geography in Hollywood? Salzburg does not border on Switzerland!”
This book focuses on films set in an identifiable Austria, examining them through the lenses of the historical contexts on both sides of the Atlantic and the prism of the ever-changing domestic film industry. The study chronicles the protean screen images of Austria and Austrians that set them apart both from European projections of Austria and from Hollywood incarnations of other European nations and nationals. It explores explicit and implicit cultural commentaries on domestic and foreign issues inserted in the Austrian stories while considering the many, sometimes conflicting forces that have shaped the films.JACQUELINE VANSANT is Professor of German at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. $90.00/£75.00 February 2019978 1 57113 945 08 b/w illus.; 208pp, 9 x 6, HBScreen Cultures: German Film and the Visual
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Film and Fashion amidst the Ruins of BerlinFrom Nazism to the Cold WarMILA GANEVA
This book steers attention toward two key aspects of German culture – film and fashion – that shared similar trajectories and multiple connections, looking at them not only in the immediate postwar years but as far back as
1939. The films, which are viewed against the background of the abundant fashion discourses in the Berlin-based press, include classics as well as neglected works. Their cinematic treatments of fashion during times of crisis offer subtle reflections on the everyday lives, desires, careers, and self-perceptions of the women who made up a large majority of the postwar public.MILA GANEVA is Professor of German at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.$90.00/£75.00 August 2018978 1 57113 576 629 b/w illus.; 266pp, 9 x 6, HBScreen Cultures: German Film and the Visual
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Moving Images on the MarginsExperimental Film in Late Socialist East GermanySETH HOWES
In the German Democratic Republic during the 1970s and ’80s, hundreds of independent films and videos, many experimental, were made despite laws against independent filmmaking and the state-owned DEFA studio
system’s resistance to experimental film. Many were by professional artists who incorporated their artworks in their films and then re-integrated the films into other artworks.Through archival research and analysis of over a dozen films, Seth Howes documents the allusiveness and probity of experimental filmmaking in East German socialism’s final years. Chapters examine works by Lutz Dammbeck, the Autoperforationsartisten, mail artists, and Yana Milev.SETH HOWES is Assistant Professor of German and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of German and Russian Studies at the University of Missouri.$90.00/£75.00 October 2019978 1 64014 068 419 b/w illus.; 286pp, 9 x 6, HBScreen Cultures: German Film and the Visual
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The Films of Konrad WolfArchive of the RevolutionLARSON POWELL
Konrad Wolf (1925-1982) was East Germany’s greatest filmmaker. His films range from musicals to antifascist films to films of everyday life. This book, the first in any language on Wolf ’s entire oeuvre, views his work as an archive both of his
own experience and of the ideology of socialism, embedded in self-reflexive films and generic references like those of Fassbinder, Wajda, and Tarkovsky. The book’s comparativist dimension will make it of interest to all readers concerned with late-twentieth-century film, art under socialism, and East German and Eastern European history.LARSON POWELL is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He has published The Technological Unconscious (2008); The Differentiation of Modernism (2013), and edited volumes on German television and on classical music in the GDR.$99.00/£80.00 February 2020978 1 64014 072 125 b/w illus.; 316pp, 9 x 6, HBScreen Cultures: German Film and the Visual
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GERMAN FILM CLASSICSGERMAN FILM CLASSICSAn exciting new series for enthusiasts, students, and scholars of German film. Each concise volume analyzes
a single classic film, delving into such factors as genesis, production, reception, and key personnel. Each book entails archival research and provides not only an introduction to the film but the author’s own “take” on it.
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PhoenixBRAD PRAGER
Christian Petzold’s Phoenix (2014), a masterpiece from one of Germany’s leading contemporary filmmakers, portrays a death-camp survivor’s return to occupied Berlin just after the war has come to an end. Petzold’s film,
which he scripted together with his frequent collaborator Harun Farocki, was an international success that has been widely compared with works by Alfred Hitchcock and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. This study provides a close reading of the film and explores the vast range of films, novels, and memoirs on which its screenwriters drew. It constitutes the most significant and thorough study of Phoenix to date.BRAD PRAGER is Professor of German and Film Studies at the University of Missouri.$19.95/£12.99 September 2019978 1 64014 038 740 colour & 5 b/w illus.; 88pp, 7.5 x 5.25, PBCamden House German Film Classics
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The Golem, How He Came into the WorldMAYA BARZILAI
Paul Wegener’s 1920 silent film The Golem, How He Came into the World, released in the aftermath of World War I, led to pronouncements that Germany had finally succeeded on the film front if not on the battlefield. It tells how Rabbi
Loew, an astrologer and sorcerer, forms and animates an artificial clay anthropoid to prevent his Jewish community’s expulsion. Maya Barzilai argues that Wegener’s film served a postwar ethical purpose: revealing the human face of the golem and offering a redemptive escape from the Christian-Jewish conflict through nature on the one hand and Zionism on the other.MAYA BARZILAI is Associate Professor at the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan. She is the author of Golem: Modern Wars and Their Monsters (2016).$19.95/£12.99 March 2020978 1 64014 030 130 b/w illus.; 104pp, 7.5 x 5.25, PBGerman Film Classics
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Wings of DesireCHRISTIAN RO GOWSKI
Filmed in 1986/87 in still-divided Berlin, Wings of Desire is both a utopian fairy tale and a fascinating time capsule of that late Cold War moment. Wim Wenders created a filmic poem of dazzling complexity: the skies over Berlin are populated with
angels bearing witness to its inhabitants’ everyday concerns. One falls in love with a beautiful young woman, a trapeze artist, and decides to forfeit his immortality. Wenders’s film has been hailed as a paean to love, a rumination on the continued presence of troubled German history, and an homage to the cinematic imagination. Christian Rogowski guides the reader through the film’s many aspects, using archival research to bring out new insights into its making and its meanings.CHRISTIAN ROGOWSKI is G. Armour Craig Professor in Language and Literature in the Department of German at Amherst College.$19.95/£12.99 September 2019978 1 64014 037 09 colour & 26 b/w illus.; 96pp, 7.5 x 5.25, PBCamden House German Film Classics
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FitzcarraldoLUTZ KOEPNICK
Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo stands out as one of the defining moments of New German Cinema and continues to raise new questions about the relation of film and society, art and nature, progress and subjectivity, the known and the
unknown. This book revisits Herzog’s tale of operatic entrepreneurialism from a decisively contemporary standpoint. And it brings into play the development of Herzog’s own career as a filmmaker over the last few decades to offer a fresh look at this by-now classical contribution to twentieth-century German film art.LUTZ KOEPNICK is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of German, Cinema and Media Arts at Vanderbilt University.$19.95/£12.99 September 2019978 1 64014 036 349 colour illus.; 92pp, 7.5 x 5.25, PBCamden House German Film Classics
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Beethoven’s Conversation BooksVolume 2: Nos. 9 to 16 (March 1820 to September 1820)Edited and translated by THEOD ORE ALBRECHT
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) is recognized the world over as a composer of musical masterpieces exhibiting heroic strength, particularly in the face of his increasing deafness from ca. 1798. By 1818, the Viennese composer had
begun carrying blank booklets with him, for his acquaintances to jot their sides of conversations, while he answered aloud. Today, 139 of these booklets survive, covering the years 1818 up to the composer’s death in 1827 and including such topics as music, history, politics, art, literature, theatre, religion, and education. These important booklets are here translated into English in their entirety for the first time. The volumes in this series include an updated editorial apparatus, with revised and expanded notes and many new footnotes exclusive to this edition, and brand-new introductions, which together place many of the quickly changing conversational topics into context. Due to the editor’s many years of research in Vienna, this edition represents an entirely new venture in source studies.THEODORE ALBRECHT is Professor of Musicology at Kent State University, Ohio.$80.00/£45.00 June 2019978 1 78327 151 11 b/w illus.; 451pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
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The Telemann CompendiumSTEVEN ZOHN
The Telemann Compendium is the first guide to research on the composer in any language. Although the scholarly ‘Telemann Renaissance’ is now a half-century old, there has never been a book intended to serve as a gateway for further study, and
the field of Telemann studies has been slow to develop in the English-speaking world. And yet the veritable explosion of performances, both live and recorded, of the composer’s music in recent decades has won him an ever-increasing following among musicians and concert-goers worldwide. As with other books in the Composer Compendia series, the book includes a brief biography, dictionary, works-list, and selective bibliography. STEVEN ZOHN is Laura Carnell Professor of Music History at Temple University.$99.00/£55.00 January 2020978 1 78327 446 810 b/w illus.; 304pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
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Edinburgh German Yearbook 13Music in Politics / Politics in MusicEdited by SIOBHÁN D ONOVAN & MARIA EUCHNER
Thirty years on from reunification, it is timely to reconsider the crossfertilization of music and politics within the German-speaking context. The essays cover a variety of genres, musicians, and thinkers and both “classical” and popular music: from the rediscovery of
Martin Luther to the exploitation of music in the Third Reich, from the performative politics of German punk and pop music to the influence of the events of 1988/89 on operatic productions in the former GDR, up to the relevance of Ernst Bloch in our contemporary post-truth society.SIOBHÁN DONOVAN is Assistant Professor of German at University College Dublin. MARIA EUCHNER is Assistant Professor of German at Dalhousie University, Canada. $85.00/£65.00 May 2020978 1 64014 060 8248pp, 9 x 6, HB Edinburgh German Yearbook
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Bach and MozartEssays on the Enigma of GeniusROBERT L. MARSHALL
The essays in this volume serve a single objective: to promote a deeper understanding of two of the greatest composers in history, as both supremely gifted creators and fellow human beings. The many fascinating topics include, among others,
Bach’s relationship to his sons, Martin Luther’s importance in Bach’s music and in his life, Bach’s attitude toward the Jews, Mozart’s wit, his portrayal in Amadeus, his evolving responses to Bach’s influence, and the lessons of his unfinished works. Diverse interpretive approaches range from text criticism to style criticism and draw on Freudian and Schenkerian analysis, along with the ideas of Harold Bloom, Theodor Adorno, Edward Said, Maynard Solomon, Charles Rosen, and other challenging thinkers. ROBERT L. MARSHALL is Sachar Professor of Music emeritus, Brandeis University. $49.95/£30.00 September 2019978 1 58046 962 37 b/w illus.; 356pp, 9 x 6, HBEastman Studies in Music
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Anneliese Landau’s Life in MusicNazi Germany to Émigré CaliforniaLILY E. HIRSCH
Musicologist Anneliese Landau worked in early German radio, the Nazi-era Jewish Culture League, and the Jewish Centers Association in Los Angeles. In these roles, she came to know many significant historical figures: among them, the
composer Arnold Schoenberg, conductor Bruno Walter, and rabbi-philosopher Leo Baeck. Hirsch’s biography of Landau offers fresh perspective on the Nazi period as well on musical life in southern California. It is also a unique story of survival: an account of one woman’s confrontation with other people’s expectations of her, as a woman and a Jew. LILY E. HIRSCH is the author of A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany: Musical Politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture League.$99.00/£80.00 March 2019978 1 58046 951 79 b/w illus.; 246pp, 9 x 6, HBEastman Studies in Music
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The Karl Muck ScandalClassical Music and Xenophobia in World War I AmericaMELISSA D. BURRAGE
At the height of World War I, America turned against its ethnic German population in a mood of rampant anti-German intolerance. Melissa Burrage’s book recounts, for the first time in full and accurate detail, a campaign directed by
prominent New Yorkers against Karl Muck, celebrated German conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, leading to his arrest, internment, and deportation. Attacks on Muck illuminate bigger national themes in American history, including: Total War; State power; irresponsible journalism; vigilante justice; sexual surveillance; attitudes toward immigration; anti-Semitism; and the development of American musical institutions. MELISSA D. BURRAGE, a former writing consultant at Harvard University Extension School, holds a Master’s Degree in History from Harvard University and a PhD in American Studies from University of East Anglia. $34.95/£25.00 June 2019978 1 58046 950 085 b/w illus.; 456pp, 9 x 6, HBEastman Studies in Music
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