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  • In/Securities: Queer Life Narratives of Early Modern Times

    In collaboration with Jason Lieblang and Patricia Milewski

    Edited by Daniela Fuhrmann, Gaby Pailer ...
    Series Book 152 - Jahrbuch fuer Internationale Germanistik
    This volume focuses on queer aspects of literary lives, which result from or cause various in/securities. By focusing on moments of irritation, or queer instances, the subjects of investigation challenge established norms, hierarchies, and ideologies. At stake are one-dimensional fixations of meaning, procedures of heteronormative standardization as well as the intellectual foundations of their ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • From Far and Wide

    German Studies in Canada

    Edited by Andrea Speltz, Nikola von Merveldt, Gaby Pailer ...
    Series Book 141 - Jahrbuch fuer Internationale Germanistik
    This volume contains the refined proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of University Teachers of German (CAUTG), which took place at Ryerson University, Toronto, as part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in May 2017. ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • The Queen's Two Bodies

    Maria Stuart und Elisabeth I. von Schiller bis Jelinek

    Edited by Elena Agazzi, Gesa Dane, Gaby Pailer ...
    Series Book 143 - Jahrbuch fuer Internationale Germanistik
    Der Band basiert auf den Beiträgen des Klassik-Kollegs »The Queen’s Two Bodies«, das im Juni 2018 an der Klassik-Stiftung-Weimar zwischen den drei Herausgeberinnen und In-stitutionen veranstaltet wurde: Elena Agazzi (Università degli Studi di Bergamo), Gesa Dane (Freie Universität Berlin) und Gaby Pailer (University of British Columbia, Vancouver). ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

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    Series Book 5 - dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken
    In 1973, an employee of the Deutsche Bank in Heidelberg identified the influential sociologist of literature and Marxist György Lukács (1885–1971) as the owner of a mass of material that had been deposited there in 1917. Among the sixteen hundred letters and text fragments of the collection, known as the "Heidelberg Suitcase" among researchers, was the notebook that has been partially reproduced ... Read more

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  • The Representation of War in German Literature

    From 1800 to the Present

    by Elisabeth Krimmer ...
    The history of literature about war is marked by a fundamental paradox: although war forms the subject of countless novels, dramas, poems, and films, it is often conceived as indescribable. Even as many writers strive towards an ideal of authenticity, they maintain that no representation can do justice to the terror and violence of war. Readings of Schiller, Kleist, Jünger, Remarque, Grass, Böll, ... Read more

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  • Travel Texts and Moving Cultures

    German Literature and the Mobilities Turn

    by Anita Perkins ...
    Series Book 22 - German Studies in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
    How does the experience of travel transform culture over time? This question is at the heart of this book, which brings together two main areas of scholarship: the cultural analysis of German literature and film and the emerging field of mobilities studies, which places movement and travel at the centre of human experience. The author grounds her analysis in two main concepts or ways of being: ... Read more

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  • Attention and Distraction in Modern German Literature, Thought, and Culture

    by Carolin Duttlinger ...
    Attention is fundamental to how we experience reality, and yet this notion has been understood and practised in very different ways across history. This interdisciplinary study explores the dynamic relationship between attention and its supposed opposite, distraction, as it unfolds from the eighteenth century to the present day. Its primary focus is on twentieth-century Germany and Austria, where ... Read more

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  • The Wounded Self

    Writing Illness in Twenty-First-Century German Literature

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    In the German-speaking world there has been a new wave - intensifying since 2007 - of autobiographically inspired writing on illness and disability, death and dying. Nina Schmidt's book takes this writing seriously as literature,examining how the authors of such personal narratives come to write of their experiences between the poles of cliché and exceptionality. Identifying shortcomings in the ... Read more

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  • Vienna's Dreams of Europe

    Culture and Identity Beyond the Nation-State

    by Professor Katherine Arens ...
    Series series New Directions in German Studies
    Vienna's Dreams of Europe puts forward a convincing counter-narrative to the prevailing story of Austria's place in Europe since the Enlightenment. For a millennium, Austrian writers have used images of Europe and its hegemonic culture as their political and cultural reference points. Yet in discussions of Europe's nation-states, Austria appears only as an afterthought, no matter that its ... Read more

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  • Spielraum: Teaching German through Theater

    by Lisa Parkes ...
    Spielraum: Teaching German through Theater is a sourcebook and guide for teaching German language and culture, as well as social, cross-cultural, and multi-ethnic tensions, through dramatic texts. This book presents a range of theoretical and practical resources for the growing number of teachers who wish to integrate drama and theater into their foreign-language curriculum. As such, it may be ... Read more

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  • Authors and the World

    Literary Authorship in Modern Germany

    by Dr. Rebecca Braun ...
    Series series New Directions in German Studies
    Authors and the World traces how four core 'modes of authorship' have developed and inflect one another in modern Germany through a series of twenty different case studies, including the work of Thomas Mann, Günter Grass, Anna Seghers, Walter Höllerer, Felicitas Hoppe and Katja Petrowskaja, and original interview material with contemporary writers Ulrike Draesner, Olga Martynova and Ulrike Almut ... Read more

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