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“jeffrey l high”

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  • Schiller's Literary Prose Works

    New Translations and Critical Essays

    by Jeffrey L. High, Lesley Sharpe, Nicholas Martin, Otto Johnston, Tanya Doss, Carrie Collenberg, Dennis F. Mahoney, Edward T. Larkin, Ellis Dye, F. J. Lamport0, Professor Gail K. Hart1, Helen Kilgallen2, Ian Codding3 ...
    Friedrich Schiller was a dramatist and poet for the ages, an important aesthetic theorist, and among Germany's first historians. But he left few works of literary prose behind -- seven short tales and fragments, almost all from early in his career -- and although they include some of his most resonant in his own time, they are largely overlooked today. Several of the pieces -- which include The ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Enlightenment and Secularism

    Essays on the Mobilization of Reason

    by Fred Baumann, Alice Behnegar, Nasser Behnegar, Mark Blitz, Henry C. Clark, Dean DiSpalatro, Brian J. Glenn, Ryan Hanley, Jeffrey L. High, Christopher Lynch, Svetozar Minkov, Andrea Radasanu, John T. Scott, Susan Meld Shell, Benjamin Storey, Friederike von Schwerin-High, Andre Wakefield, Allan Arkush, Jeremy D. Bailey, David Biale, Robert Faulkner, David Janssens, Ralph Lerner, Rafael Major, Paul A. Rahe, George Thomas ...
    Enlightenment and Secularism is a collection of twenty eight essays that seek to understand the connection between the European Enlightenment and the emergence of secular societies, as well as the character or nature of those societies. The contributors are drawn from a variety of disciplines including History, Sociology, Political Science, and Literature. Most of the essays focus on a single text ... Read more

    $78.89 CAD

  • Inspiration Bonaparte?

    German Culture and Napoleonic Occupation

    by Professor Christian Moser, Professor Mary Orr, Helmut J. Schneider, Professor Rebecca Stewart, Professor Michael Michael White, Professor Andrew Cusack, Professor Bernd Fischer, Professor Elystan Griffiths, Wolf Kittler, Professor Susanne Kord, Elisabeth Krimmer, Laura Anna Macor ...
    Two hundred years after his death, Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) continues to resonate as a fascinating, ambivalent, and polarizing figure. Differences of opinion as to whether Bonaparte should be viewed as the executor of the principles of the French Revolution or as the figure who was principally responsible for their corruption are as pronounced today as they were at the beginning of the ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Lily Says No!

    by Kelly Eastmond- Jeffrey ...
    Illustrated by Princess of the Most High S.B.S ...
    Lily Says No! is a book designed to open up dialogue between parents/guardians and children about sexual abuse and allows children to understand that they have authority over their bodies. "Lily Says NO!" is a story about a little girl, who lives with her mum, sibling and step-parent. Her trust is broken when she experiences child abuse. This story is written in a format children as young as six ... Read more

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  • Goethe

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  • Novel Translations

    The European Novel and the German Book, 1680–1730

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Goethe

    Edited by Lesley Sharpe ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
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  • The Life of August Wilhelm Schlegel, Cosmopolitan of Art and Poetry

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    This is the first full-scale biography, in any language, of a towering figure in German and European Romanticism: August Wilhelm Schlegel whose life, 1767 to 1845, coincided with its inexorable rise. As poet, translator, critic and oriental scholar, Schlegel's extraordinarily diverse interests and writings left a vast intellectual legacy, making him a foundational figure in several branches of ... Read more

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  • Germaine de Staël in Germany

    Gender and Literary Authority (1800–1850)

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  • The Internalized Revolution

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    This book, originally published in 1992, traces the discourse on the French Revolution in Germany and its contributors investigate the processes and results of adopting or rejecting the values of the French Revolution in Germany and reinterprets its documents in terms of their internalization. One of the questions discussed is whether the French Revolution is part of Germany’s progressive ... Read more

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  • Exploring the Interior

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    In this fascinating collection of essays Harvard Emeritus Professor Karl S. Guthke examines the ways in which, for European scholars and writers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, world-wide geographical exploration led to an exploration of the self. Guthke explains how in the age of Enlightenment and beyond intellectual developments were fuelled by excitement about what Ulrich Im Hof ... Read more

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