German Studies
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Disputed Messiahs
Jewish and Christian Messianism in the Ashkenazic World during the Reformation
Jewish and Christian messianic thought and activism in the Reformation era in the Ashkenazic world.
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ISBN: 9780814341643
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ISBN: 9780814348611
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ISBN: 9780814341650
Invisible Ink
The incredible autobiography of an exiled child during WWII.
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ISBN: 9780814347591
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ISBN: 9780814347607
ISBN: 0814347592
The Genocidal Gaze
From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich
Examines literature and art to reveal the German genocidal gaze in Africa and the Holocaust.
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ISBN: 9780814343852
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ISBN: 9780814344385
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ISBN: 9780814343869
The Politics of Magic
DEFA Fairy-Tale Films
The first comprehensive, critical, book-length treatment of the live-action fairy-tale films from former East Germany.
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ISBN: 9780814339039
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ISBN: 9780814339046
Gender and the Uncanny in Films of the Weimar Republic
Examines how uncanny films of the Weimar Republic engage with and respond to changing gender norms and women’s emancipation.
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ISBN: 9780814338940
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ISBN: 9780814338957

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The Collapse of the Conventional
German Film and Its Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Analyzes a diverse body of films and investigates the renaissance that has taken place in German cinema since the turn of the twenty-first century.
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ISBN: 9780814333778
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ISBN: 9780814336885
In Babel's Shadow
Language, Philology, and the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Germany
A comprehensive cultural history of the language sciences in nineteenth-century Germany.
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ISBN: 9780814333044
Aby Warburg and Anti-Semitism
Political Perspectives on Images and Culture
A landmark study on Aby Warburg’s life and work, translated into English.
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ISBN: 9780814332559
Disciplining Germany
Youth, Reeducation, and Reconstruction after the Second World War
A look at how the discussions, debates, and controversies in Germany about youth and reeducation after World War II helped Germans come to terms with their Nazi past, negotiate Allied occupation, and construct postwar German identity.
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ISBN: 9780814333297
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ISBN: 9780814337431
After Images
Photography, Archaeology, and Psychoanalysis and the Tradition of Bildung
Examining literature and cultural theory of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this volume considers connections between photography, archaeology, and psychoanalysis and their effects on conceptions of the self and Bildung.
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ISBN: 9780814333013
The Spell of Italy
Vacation, Magic, and the Attraction of Goethe
A study of the lure of Italy in German culture from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.
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ISBN: 9780814332696
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ISBN: 9780814335703
Time's Visible Surface
Alois Riegl and the Discourse on History and Temporality in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
Expands our understanding of Alois Riegl beyond his role as an art historian to a pivotal figure in cultural theory at large, while placing his interest in history and time within the intellectual world of fin-de-siècle Vienna.
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ISBN: 9780814332085
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ISBN: 9780814337462
Words from Abroad
Trauma and Displacement in Postwar German Jewish Writers
Examines the responses of German Jewish writers to the geographical and cultural displacement that is one of the lasting consequences of the Holocaust.
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ISBN: 9780814332450
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ISBN: 9780814335772
History, Fiction, and Germany
Writing the Nineteenth-Century Nation
A study of the content, development, and transmission of German identity during the nineteenth century as Germany’s national narrative took shape in historical fiction and in both popular and academic history.
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ISBN: 9780814332009
Fabricating Pleasure
Fashion, Entertainment, and Cultural Consumption in Germany, 1780-1830
Traces how the German middle class created a unique form of domestic culture that fused consumption with high culture in fashionable forms of entertainment.
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ISBN: 9780814331316
Foreign Words
Translator-Authors in the Age of Goethe
A new perspective on the principal developments in translation practice and theory in Germany during the Age of Goethe with emphasis on the work of Goethe, Hölderlin, and Kleist as translators.
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ISBN: 9780814337356
About Face
German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz
A critical history of physiognomic thought in German-speaking Europe that traces the roots of twentieth-century racial profiling to the Enlightenment.
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ISBN: 9780814331798
Light Motives
German Popular Film in Perspective
Light Motives undertakes a long overdue critical reassessment of German popular cinema, challenging the traditional view of German film history and offering new ways to think about popular cinema in general.
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ISBN: 9780814330456
Jews and the German State
The Political History of a Minority, 1848-1933
Now available in paperback, this book delivers a comprehensive one-volume account of the political history of Jews as a significant minority within Imperial Germany.
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ISBN: 9780814331309
Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography
Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography is not merely the most extensive and insightful treatment of Benjamin 's autobiographical writings.
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ISBN: 9780814330838