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Quarterly journal specializing in topics on German history, literature, culture, and film.

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The Role of Translation in German Studies: With a Medieval Perspective

Jan 01, 2009; Classen, Albrecht; Rasmussen, Ann Marie; Stern, Guy ... ALBRECHT CLASSEN University of Arizona Most of the comments regarding this large issue do not fully take into account the historical dimension of translation and the need to have translations available to bridge the divide between modern readers/language learners and past ...

Love Me, Hurt Me, Heal Me-Isolde Healer and Isolde Lover in Gottfried's Tristan

Jan 01, 2009; Altpeter-Jones, Katja ... "Ez tuot vil wê, swer herzeclîche minnet" - it hurts a lot when someone loves dearly - thus sings one of the most wehleidig of all German minnesingers, Heinrich von Morungen (MF XIX.XV1, I).1 In "Sach ieman die vrouwen," Heinrich moans: "diu liebe und diu leide / diu wellen mich beide / vürdern ...

Painting Sand: Nelly Sachs and the Grabschrift

Jan 01, 2009; Hoyer, Jennifer M ... German Jewish poet Nelly Sachs (1891-1970) observed in 1948: "So mull, ich den Vorwurf vieler Emigranten hinnehmen, die ein Anknüpfen an die Vormartyrium-Tradition verlangen, und sind doch in einer Zeit, die aufgerissen ist wie eine Wunde" (Sachs, Briefe 99). In 1950 she remarked, "Wir können ...

Against Biopolitics: Walter Benjamin, Carl Schmitt, and Giorgio Agamben on Political Sovereignty and Symbolic Order1

Jan 01, 2009; Pan, David ... Recent attempts by Giorgio Agamben to understand the relationship between politics and the human body have resulted in a notion of "biopolitics/ derived from texts by Walter Benjamin and Michel Foucault, in which there is a merging of biology and politics into a unified system that subjects the ...

How the Past Writes the Future: Social Autobiography and the Dynamics of Discrimination in Christoph Hein's Landnahme and other Writings

Jan 01, 2009; McKnight, Phil ... "Für die Einheimischen kamen die Vertriebenen und begingen ebenfalls Landnahme, und zwar da wo es gerade besonders knapp geworden war." - Günter Grass, Krebsgang Shortly after the appearance of Landnahme (2004), Christoph Hein published his essay "Vom unglücklichen Bewusstsein" ...

Blutige Worte: Internationales und interdisziplinäres Kolloquium zum Verhältnis von Sprache und Gewalt in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit

Jan 01, 2009; Trokhimenko, Olga V ... Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Culture Eming, Jutta, and Claudia Jarzebowski, eds. Blutige Worte: Internationales und interdisziplinäres Kolloquium zum Verhältnis von Sprache und Gewalt in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit. Gottingen: V & R unipress, 2008. 232 pp. euro38.90 ...

The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Early Modern Germany: Protestant and Catholic Piety, 1500-1648

Jan 01, 2009; Grimes, Laura M ... Heal, Bridget. The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Early Modern Germany: Protestant and Catholic Piety, 1500-1648. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 338 pp. $99.00 hardcover. Bridget Heal's work is a thorough case study of Reformation and Counter Reformation Marian piety in three ...

Jakob Ruf. Leben, Werk und Studien

Jan 01, 2009; Murdoch, Brian ... Keller, Hildegard Elisabeth, ed Jakob Ruf. Leben, Werk und Stuthen. Zurich: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2008.5vols. (319+774+707+1019+723 pp.), plusaudio CD and multimedia CD. SFr. 248 hardback in slipcase. The publication of this collection of the complete works of Jakob Ruf is an important ...

Erzählen nach Darwin. Die Krise der Teleologie im literarischen Realismus: Friedrich Theodor Vischer und Gottfried Keller

Jan 01, 2009; Maurer, Kathrin ... 18th & 19th Century Literature and Culture Ajouri, Philip. Erzählen nach Darwin. Die Krise der Teleologie im literarischen Realismus: Friedrich Theodor Vischer und Gottfried Keller. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2007. 373 pp. $157.00 hardcover. Philip Ajouri hat mit seinem Buch Erzählen nach ...

Schwellenüberschreitungen: Politik in der Literatur von deutschsprachigen Frauen 1780-1918

Jan 01, 2009; Whittle, Ruth ... Bland, Caroline, and Elisa Müller-Adams, eds. Schwellenüberschreitungen: Politik in der Literatur von deutschsprachigen Frauen 1780-1918. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2007. 293 pp. euro39.80 paperback. The thirteen contributions in this book all address the question as to how women writers ...

Orientdiskurse in der deutschen Literatur

Jan 01, 2009; Schwarz, Hans-Günther ... Bogdal, Klaus-Michael, ed. Orientdiskurse in der deutschen Literatur. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag, 2007. 363 pp. euro39.90 paperback. Das Buch umfasst, einschließlich des Vorworts des Herausgebers, 15 Beiträge zu Aspekten des Orientdiskurses. Das Vorwort setzt sich mit Saids Begriff ...

Jenseits von Tugend und Empfindsamkeiz. Gesellschaftspolitik im Frauenroman um 1800

Jan 01, 2009; Müller-Adams, Elisa ... Gerig, Maya. Jenseits von Tugend und Empfindsamkeit. Gesellschaftspolitik im Frauenroman um 1800. Köln: Böhlau, 2008. 185 pp. euro29.90 paperback. Die Frauenliteraturgeschichte versteht die Wende zum 19. Jahrhundert als Epochenschwelle, in der die Geschlechterrollen entlang der Grenze ...

Politiken des Wahnsinns. Weibliche Psychopathologie in Texten deutscher Autoren zwischen Spätaufklärung und Fin de siècle

Jan 01, 2009; Hock, Lisabeth ... Hauser, Claudia. Politiken des Wahnsinns. Weibliche Psychopathologie in Texten deutscher Autoren zwischen Spätaufklärung und Fin de siècle. Hildesheim: Olms, 2007. 412 pp. euro42.00 paperback. As Gilbert and Gubar's groundbreaking The Madwoman in the Attic approaches its 30th ...

How Jews Became Germans: The History of Conversion and Assimilation in Berlin

Jan 01, 2009; Goozé, Marjanne E ... Hertz, Deborah. How Jews Became Germans: The History of Conversion and Assimilation in Berlin. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. 288 pp. $38.00 cloth. This cultural and social history by Deborah Hertz investigates the motivations, incentives, and difficulties encountered by the ...

Women and Writing in the Works of Novalis: Transformation beyond Measure?

Jan 01, 2009; Grimm, Catherine ... Hodkmson, James R. Women and Writing in the Worksof Novalis: Transformation beyond Measure? Rochester: Camden House, 2007. 271 pp. $75.00 hardcover. In this thought-provoking yet not entirely persuasive study, James R. Hodkinson examines the different roles both literal and figurative ...

Eine Literaturgeschichte der Photographie

Jan 01, 2009; Arndt, Christiane ... Neumann, Michael. Eine Literaturgeschichte der Photographie. Dresden: Thelem, 2006. 354 pp. euro35.00 paperback. Michael Neumann verschränkt in seiner Studie Eine Literaturgeschichte der Photographie in anregender Weise den photographieästhetischen mit dem literaturgeschichtlichen ...

Reading Heinrich Heine

Jan 01, 2009; Schreiber, Elliott ... Phelan, Anthony. Reading Heinrich Heine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 307 pp. $105.00 hardcover. Amid the numerous publications on Heinrich Heine in recent years, the ambitious aim and scope of Anthony Phelan's Reading Heinrich Heine stands out. His aim is nothing less ...

The First World War as a Clash of Cultures

Jan 01, 2009; Corngold, Stanley ... Bridgham, Fred, ed. The First World War as a Clash of Cultures. Rochester: Camden House, 2007. 334 pp. $80.00 hardcover. This volume consists of ten stylish and informative essays of varying scope and depth on a period of great, if poisonous, cultural ferment, carefully edited by Fred ...

The Stage as 'Der Spielraum Gottes

Jan 01, 2009; Hagens, Jan L ... Gabor, Olivia G. The Stage as 'Der Spielraum Gottes/ Berne: Peter Lang, 2006. 254 pp. $49.95 paperback. This study in 20th-century German-language drama sets out to show that von Hc if mannst hai 's Jeder m. mu , Borchert's Draußen vor der Tür, Brecht's Der gute Mensch von Sezuan, and ...

Esther Dischereit

Jan 01, 2009; Fritzsche, Sonja ... Hall, Katharina, ed. Esther Dischereit. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007. 181 pp. $55.00 hardcover. Esther Dischereit's poetry captures the poignant rhythms of the everyday, and questions how genocide became part of Germany's daily experience. Her post-modernist prose ...