Constructions of Conflict

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 15
• This collection of essays explores the ways in which memories of social, political and military conflicts have been transmitted by twentieth- and twen... Lees meer

Memories of 1968

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 16
• The 1968 events were profoundly international in character, transcending any one national context and interacting with other movements across the worl... Lees meer

"Voelkisch" Writers and National Socialism

Guy Tourlamain

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 21
• This book follows the work of a group of right-wing nationalist writers from 1890 to 1960, whose writings both paved the way for the rise of Nazism an... Lees meer

Constellations of Reading

Carlo Salzani

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 13
• How to read Walter Benjamin today? This book argues that the proper way is through an approach which recognizes and respects his own peculiar theoriza... Lees meer

Other People's Pain

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 18
• How do we approach other people's pain? This question is of crucial importance to the humanities, particularly literary and cultural studies, whenever... Lees meer

Transformations of the German Novel

Monique Rinere

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 14
• At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the German literary establishment considered the novel the contemptible entertainment of the uneducated. B... Lees meer

Cultural Transformations of the Public Sphere

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 24
• The last decade has seen renewed interest in political theories of the public sphere, reacting to new challenges posed by globalization, communication... Lees meer

Cures for Modernity

Julia Sutton-Mattocks

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 35
• Why did medicine fascinate writers and filmmakers in the 1920s and 1930s? This book traces the prevalent medical themes in interwar Russian and Czech ... Lees meer

Memory Traces

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 5
• This essay collection examines the dynamics of memory organization and the way it varies among different media and modes of discourse in post-unificat... Lees meer

Invisibility Studies

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 23
• Invisibility Studies explores current changes in the relationship between what we consider visible and what invisible in different areas of contempora... Lees meer

The Men with Broken Faces

Marjorie Gehrhardt

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 25
• This book explores for the first time the individual and collective significance of First World War facially disfigured combatants, with a special foc... Lees meer

Imagining the City, Volume 1

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 7
• Urban living presents both challenges and opportunities for individuals and societies in their attempts to maintain and determine their cultural ident... Lees meer

Vladimir Nabokov and the Ideological Aesthetic

Udith Dematagoda

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 29
• The perception of Nabokov as an apolitical writer is one which the author encouraged in the latter part of his career, despite having lived through th... Lees meer

Biological Discourses

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 27
• In the wake of the Darwin Anniversary celebrations in 2009, this volume reaches beyond the Darwinian legacy and explores the range and diversity of in... Lees meer

Performing Femininity

Alexandra Kolb

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 12
• This is the first book to analyse the cultural representations of female identity that were created by the interaction between choreography and litera... Lees meer

Dialectic and Paradox

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 19
• From Hegel to the present, the humanities and social sciences have revealed the volatile power of third agency. The articles in this volume trace the ... Lees meer

Zeitgeschichten: Die Berliner Uebergangsjahre

Ulrike Zitzlsperger

• Paperback | Duits | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 11
• Berlin spielt seit 1989 bei den Diskussionen um das Thema Metropole eine besondere Rolle. Die mit dem Fall der Mauer einsetzenden Übergangsjahre waren... Lees meer

European Vistas

Remko Smid

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 31
• Claudio Magris is considered an authority on central European literature and culture. This book explores why he has become such a relevant figure, dem... Lees meer

Constructions of Melancholy in Contemporary German and Austrian Literature

Anna O'Driscoll

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 17
• Melancholy has become a central theme of German literature since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The rapidly changing sociopolitical circumstance... Lees meer

ImageScapes

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 9
• The relationship between different media has emerged as one of the most important areas of research in contemporary cultural and literary studies. But... Lees meer

German Literature, History and the Nation

• Paperback | Duits, Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 2
• This is the second of three volumes based on papers given at the 'Fragile Tradition' conference in Cambridge, 2002. Together they provide a conspectus... Lees meer

Asian Fusion

Caroline Rupprecht

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 32
• A series of dialogues are created between Asian-German authors, such as Yoko Tawada, Pham Thi Hoài, and Anna Kim, with an earlier generation of German... Lees meer

Science, Technology and the German Cultural Imagination

• Paperback | Engels, Duits | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 3
• This is the third and final volume of papers given at the 'Fragile Tradition' conference in Cambridge, 2002. Together these volumes provide a conspect... Lees meer

Cannibal Angels

Kenneth David Jackson

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural History and Literary Imagination | nr. 33
• This book is a cultural history and interpretation of Brazilian modernism in the arts and letters. In the first three decades of the twentieth century... Lees meer