Auteur: Frauke Matthes

Building on a long tradition in German-language literature and culture, this volume focuses on contemporary engagements with ethical concerns in literary texts, essays, and films. There has been an ‘ …

Presents fifteen new German-language novelists and a close reading of an exemplary work of each for academics and the general reader alike. After the international success in the 1990s of authors suc …

Weighs the value of Germanophone culture, and its study, in an age of globalization, transnationalism, and academic change. The study of German-language culture has been rapidly diversifying to expre …

Examines the heightened role of politics in contemporary German and Austrian cultural productions and institutions and what it means for German Studies. As debates about Europe, migration, resurgent …

Volume 13 deals with the interaction of music and politics, considering a broad range of genres, authors, composers, and artists in Germany since the nineteenth century. A particularly iconic image o …

Volume focusing on a multitude of incarnations and meanings of ‘masculinity’ in German culture from medieval times to the present. Intended to encourage and disseminate lively and open discussion of …

After the international success in the 1990s of authors such as Bernhard Schlink, Marcel Beyer, and Thomas Brussig, an impressive number of new German-language novelists are making a significant impa …

The complex nexus between masculinity and national identity has long troubled, but also fascinated the German cultural imagination. This has become apparent again  since  the fall of the Ir …

German-language writings about Islam not only reveal much about Islamic culture but also about the European ‘home’ culture. Islam has been a rich topic in German-language literature since the middle …

Examines ideas of violence in German culture after 9/11 through the lens of "violence elsewhere" – exploring works and discourses about violence in distant locations or times.Following the …