Autor: Stephen D. Dowden

Essays in this volume seek to clarify the meaning of tragedy and the tragic in its many German contexts, art forms, and disciplines, from literature and philosophy to music, painting, and history. Th …

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This book offers a bold new view of the way in which modernist fiction, painting,  music, and poetry are interlinked. Dowden shows that modernism, contrary to a longstanding view, did not …

New essays by leading scholars on major aspects of the most significant Austrian writer of the postwar generation. Since the death of Thomas Bernhard in 1989, the literary reputation of this complex …

Proceedings of the Brandeis conference on Jewish Germanists who fled Nazi Germany and their impact on Anglo-American German studies. Among the Jewish academics and intellectuals expelled from Germany …

Demonstrates, contrary to conventional wisdom, that European modernism developed not only in the great metropolitan centers, but also in provincial cities such as Jena. The conventional wisdom is tha …

Features a new section on the institutional settings of German Jewish Studies, a Film Forum on Shahar Rozen’s 1998 documentary Liebe Perla, and interviews with Paul Mendes-Flohr and Barbara Honigmann …