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  • Disability, Deformity, and Disease in the Grimms' Fairy Tales

    by Ann Schmiesing ...
    Series series The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
    A pioneering look at portrayals of disability, deformity, and disease in the Grimms' Children's and Household Tales within a sociohistorical framework and from a disability studies perspective.Although dozens of disabled characters appear in the Grimms' Children's and Household Tales, the issue of disability in their collection has remained largely unexplored by scholars. In Disability, Deformity ... Read more

    $34.92 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Brothers Grimm

    A Biography

    by Ann Schmiesing ...
    The first English-language biography in over fifty years to tell the full, vibrant story of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, known to history as the Brothers Grimm“Magisterial.”—Kirkus ReviewsMore than two hundred years ago, the German brothers Jacob Grimm (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859) published a collection of fairy tales that remains famous the world over. It has been translated into some ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Brothers Grimm, The

    A Biography

    by Ann Schmiesing ...
    Narrated by Eve Matheson ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 9 min

    The first English-language biography in over fifty years to tell the full, vibrant story of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, known to history as the Brothers GrimmMore than two hundred years ago, the German brothers Jacob Grimm (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859) published a collection of fairy tales that remains famous the world over. It has been translated into some 170 languages—more than any ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Self as Muse

    Narcissism and Creativity in the German Imagination 1750-1830

    by Alexander Mathas, Richard Block, Susan Gustafson, Gail K. Hart, Martin Klebes, Edgar Landgraf, Alexander Mathäs, F Corey Roberts, Ann Schmiesing, Fritz Breithaupt ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    While there are countless philosophical and psychological studies that focus on sources of the self, narcissism has found relatively little attention in a pre-Freudian context. The Self as Muse fills this gap by examining various aspects of narcissism and their significance for the outpouring of creativity in late eighteenth and nineteenth-century German literature.In many Eighteenth-century works ... Read more

    $118.99 CAD

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    Edited by Lesley Sharpe ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Goethe provides a challenging yet accessible survey of this versatile figure, not only one of the world's greatest writers but also a theatre director and art critic, a natural scientist and state administrator. The volume places Goethe in the context of the Germany and Europe of his lifetime. His literary work is covered in individual chapters on poetry, drama (with a ... Read more

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  • Magnificent Rebels

    The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self

    by Andrea Wulf ...
    **A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ • From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarkable group of young rebels—poets, novelists, philosophers—who, through their epic quarrels, passionate love stories, heartbreaking grief, and radical ideas launched Romanticism onto the world stage, inspiring some of the greatest thinkers of the time.A BEST BOOK OF THE ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Heinrich von Kleist

    Writing after Kant

    by Tim Mehigan ...
    The question of Heinrich von Kleist's reading and reception of Kant's philosophy has never been satisfactorily answered. The present study aims to reassess this question, particularly in the light of Kant's rising importance for the humanities today. It argues not only that Kleist was influenced by Kant, but also that he may be understood as a Kantian, albeit an unorthodox one.The volume ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • A Demon-Haunted Land

    Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany

    by Monica Black ...
    This account of German citizens swept up in a wave of supernatural obsessions after WWII and the Holocaust is "an engrossing story from beginning to end" ( Booklist).In the aftermath of World War II in Germany, a messianic faith healer rose to extraordinary fame, prayer groups performed exorcisms, and enormous crowds traveled to witness apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Most strikingly, scores of ... Read more

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  • Goethe: Life as a Work of Art

    by Rüdiger Safranski ...
    Translated by David Dollenmayer ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice SelectionNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by the Economist and Kirkus ReviewsThis “splendid biography” (Wall Street Journal) of Goethe presents his life and work as an essential touchstone for the modern age.A masterful intellectual portrait, Goethe: Life as a Work of Art is celebrated as the seminal twenty-first-century biography of the ... ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Franz Kafka (1883-1983)

    His Craft and Thought

    Edited by Roman Struc, John Yardley ...
    The eight papers in this volume were originally presented at the centennial conference on Franz Kafka held at the University of Calgary in October 1983. As diverse in approach and methodology as these papers are “the general drift of the volume is away from Germanistik towards ‘state-of-the-art’ methods.”The opening articles by Charles Bernheimer and James Rolleston both deal with the similarities ... Read more

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  • Karl Philipp Moritz

    At the Fringe of Genius

    by Mark Boulby ...
    Series series Heritage
    This is the first complete biographical and critical study of Karl Philipp Moritz (1756–93), German novelist, teacher, journalist, and philologist. His psychological novel, Anton Reiser, replete with insights into the sociological and psychological life of the time, was one of the most important eighteenth-century German novels. Moritz was in close touch with most of the major intellectual ... Read more

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