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Hardback. This book explores the implications for today's critical concerns of the work of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), one of the most powerful and influential thinkers of the 20th century. Editor(s): Richter, Gerhard. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JJ; ABA; DSB; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804741255
ISBN
9780804741255
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 184.00

Hardback. Flint on a Bright Stone closes a significant gap in the history of Modernist poetry by identifying the existence of "Tempered Modernism," an international phenomenon exemplified by Akhmatova, Rilke, H.D., and Williams, and characterized by small poems written with precision, restraint, simplicity, equilibrium, and hardness. Series: Verbal Art: Studies in Poetics. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ACG; 2AGR; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 585.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804750752
ISBN
9780804750752
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.09

Hardback. This is a work of unprecedented scope that traces the origins of Jewish autobiographical writing from the early-modern period to the early twentieth century. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACY; 2CSJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 41. Weight in Grams: 998.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
672
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804751575
ISBN
9780804751575
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.62

Hardback. This book opens our eyes to the vast corpus of popular fiction written by Jews for Jews in nineteenth-century Germany, discovering a tradition of Jewish literature that is in many ways still with us today. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 280 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBF; DSK; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804761222
ISBN
9780804761222
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.02

Hardback. This work contains annotated listings of aviation books in French, German, Italian and English. It contains 4217 listings of material culled from the major libraries of the US and UK. It is intended for any one with an interest in or research of aviation. Num Pages: 576 pages, illustrations, photographs. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 2ADF; 2ADT; GBCR; HBG; HBWN; TBX; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810830851
ISBN
9780810830851
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 268.93

Hardback. This annotated bibliography is a guide to the works of Norwegian novelist, Sigrid Undset. It contains American reviews of the author's books, grouped by style, Internet resources, dissertations and recent studies in Norwegian. Num Pages: 128 pages, bibliography, index, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 2ACSN; DSBH; DSK; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 144 x 14. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810837386
ISBN
9780810837386
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.03

Hardback. The history of this period in German literature is told through a detailed chronology, an introductory essay, a comprehensive bibliography, and over 200 cross-referenced dictionary entries on poetry, novels, historical narrative, philosophical musings, drama, and the exceptional writers who emerged and shaped German literature over the centuries. Series: Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts. Num Pages: 388 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 151 x 29. Weight in Grams: 644.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
388
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810867710
ISBN
9780810867710
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 153.03

Paperback. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 132 x 17. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811219501
ISBN
9780811219501
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.86

Hardback. Explores Goethe's ethics of happiness and themes of resignation within them. Prandi uses Lucretius and Spinoza as models of influence for Goethe's "natural morality", considering the similarity between the three in their definition of what makes people rationally happy. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBF; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9780819189912
ISBN
9780819189912
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.59

Hardback. In the context of Holderlin's poetics of alienation, exile, and wandering, Gosetti-Ferencei poses a phenomenologically sensitive theory of poetic language and a "new poetics of Dasein," or being there. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBD; DSC; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823223602
ISBN
9780823223602
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.13

Hardback. Arranged chronologically, this study takes the reader through Traven's career, from his arrival in Mexico to his final writings in 1940. Detailed discussions of all his novels are provided, showing how Mexican history inspired him and shaped his work. Series: Latin American Silhouettes. Num Pages: 304 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KLCM; 2ACG; 2ADF; 3JJG; 3JJH; DSBH; DSK; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 608.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780842023924
ISBN
9780842023924
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 159.43

Hardback. The humorous target of History of the Abderites is thc ignorance, backwardness, provinciality, bigotry, pedantry, lack of taste, and the sodden contentment with things as they are that Wieland found all around him. Translator(s): Dufner, Max. Num Pages: 327 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBD; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 650.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
327
Condition
New
SKU
V9780934223256
ISBN
9780934223256
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.26

Hardback. While the first decade after the fall of the Berlin wall was marked by the challenges of unification and the often difficult process of reconciling East and West German experiences, many Germans expected that the new centuryA" would achieve normalization.A" The essays in this volume take a closer look at Germany's new normalcy.. Editor(s): Gerstenberger, Katharina; Herminghouse, Patricia. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845455477
ISBN
9781845455477
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.97

Paperback. This volume has become an essential text for instructors, and twenty years later, is now being republished as part of the Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching (MART) series with a new preface that discusses more recent contributions to the field. Editor(s): Clover, Carol J.; Lindow, John. Series: MART: The Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching. Num Pages: 390 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACSX; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 179 x 30. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802038234
ISBN
9780802038234
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 46.00

hardcover. The Saints in Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry is a complimentary volume to The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse-Icelandic Prose (UTP 2013). This volume focuses on Icelandic devotional poetry created during the early modern period. Series: Toronto Old Norse-Icelandic Series (Tonis). Num Pages: 380 pages. BIC Classification: 1DNC; 2ACSC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
SKU
V9781487500740
ISBN
9781487500740
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.14

Hardback. Provides fresh insights into both famous and little-known episodes in Thomas Mann's life and into his writing - the only realm in which he ever felt free. This book shows how love, death, religion, and politics were not merely themes in "Buddenbrooks", "The Magic Mountain", and other works, but were woven into the fabric of his existence. Translator(s): Willson, Leslie. Num Pages: 752 pages, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 999.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University Press Group Ltd United States
Number of pages
752
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691070698
ISBN
9780691070698
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.05

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; WTK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 108. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Adams Media Corporation United States
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781440593086
ISBN
9781440593086
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.98

Hardcover. Examines the lure of mountains in German literature, philosophy, film, music, and culture from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. Editor(s): Ireton, Sean; Schaumann, Caroline. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 406 pages, 15, 15 black and white. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 37. Weight in Grams: 806.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
406
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135025
ISBN
9781571135025
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 184.31

Hardcover. Inner emigration is applied to writers who were not forced out of Germany during the Nazi era, and implies that they were in some measure isolated from the regime and its actions. Some have wondered whether it was in fact possible for them to publish fiction or commentary without collaborating. Scholars of German literature and popular culture rais Editor(s): Donahue, Neil H.; Kirchner, Doris. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 582.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571810014
ISBN
9781571810014
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 166.71

Hardback. With the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, four decades of separation seemed to have been brought to an end. In the literary arena as in many others, this seemed to be the surprising but ultimately logical end to the situation in which, after the extreme separation of the two Germanies' literatures during most of the period up to 1980.. Editor(s): Bullivant, Keith. Series: Modern German Studies: A Series of the German Studies Association. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JJP; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 147 x 258 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571810373
ISBN
9781571810373
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.45

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