Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series
Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series includes current scholarship from a variety of disciplines on German literature and culture. We are not currently accepting submissions for this series.
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.
Printed Paper Cased
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.
Printed Paper Cased
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.
Printed Paper Cased
ISBN: 9780814333297
eBOOK
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.
Printed Paper Cased
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.
Printed Paper Cased
ISBN: 9780814332696
eBOOK
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.
Printed Paper Cased
ISBN: 9780814332085
eBOOK
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.
Printed Paper Cased
ISBN: 9780814332450
eBOOK
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.
Printed Paper Cased
ISBN: 9780814332009
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.
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814337356
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.
Printed Paper Cased
ISBN: 9780814331316
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.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814331798
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.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814330838
The Myth of Power and the Self
Essays on Franz Kafka
The Myth of Power and the Self brings together Walter Sokel's most significant essays on Kafka written over a period of thirty-one years, 1966-1997.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814326084
Peripheral Visions
The Hidden Stages of Weimar Cinema
An insightful overview of an important era in cinema.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814329283
Walter Benjamin
An Intellectual Biography
This book provides readers with the opportunity to survey the facts surrounding Benjamin's life and assess the interpretations of his texts.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814320181