Camden House imprint: 50 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Now published for the International Brecht Society by Camden House under the Society's editorship, the Brecht Yearbook is the central scholarly forum for discussion of the life and work of Bertolt Brecht and of aspects of theater and literature that were of particular interest to him, especially the...
Becoming John Updike
Critical Reception, 1958-2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
When John Updike died in 2009, tributes from the literary establishment were immediate and fulsome. However, no one reading reviews of Updike's work in the late 1960s would have predicted that kind of praise for a man who was known then as a brilliant stylist who had nothing to say. What changed?...
A Companion to Friedrich Nietzsche
Life and Works
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Nietzsche looms over modern literature and thought; according to Gottfried Benn, "everything my generation discussed, thought through innerly; one could say: suffered; or one could even say: took to the point of exhaustion -- all of it had already been said . . . by Nietzsche; all the rest was...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Franz Kafka's literary career began in the first decade of the twentieth century and produced some of the most fascinating and influential works in all of modern European literature. Now, a hundred years later, the concerns of a new century call for a look at the challenges facing Kafka scholarship...
The Musical Novel
Imitation of Musical Structure, Performance, and Reception in Contemporary Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
What is a "musical novel"? This book defines the genre as musical not primarily in terms of its content, but in its form. The musical novel crosses medial boundaries, aspiring to techniques, structures, and impressions similar to those of music. It takes music as a model for its own construction,...
Reading Mahler
German Culture and Jewish Identity in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Gustav Mahler's music is more popular than ever, yet few are aware of its roots in German literary and cultural history in general, and in fin-de-siècle Viennese culture in particular. Taking as its point of departure the many references to literature, philosophy, and the visual arts that Mahler...
Jane Austen
Two Centuries of Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Among the most important English novelists, Jane Austen is unusual because she is esteemed not only by academics but by the reading public. Her novels continue to sell well, and films adapted from her works enjoy strong box-office success. The trajectory of Austen criticism is intriguing, especially...
Speculations on German History
Culture and the State
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
German history never loses its fascination. It is exceptionally varied, contradictory, and raises difficult problems for the historian. In a material sense, there have been a great many Germanies, so that it was long unclear what "Germany" would amount to geopolitically, while German intellectuals...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Today, forty years after Timothy Leary's suggestion that hippies read Hermann Hesse while "turning on," Hesse is once again receiving attention: faced with ubiquitous materialism, war, and ecological disaster, we discover that these problems have found universal expression in the works of...
American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice
Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Wittgenstein wrote that "philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry." American poetry has long engaged questions about subject and object, self and environment, reality and imagination, real and ideal that have dominated the Western philosophical tradition since the Enlightenment....
The Blue Stain
A Novel of a Racial Outcast
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Hugo Bettauer's The Blue Stain, a novel of racial mixing and "passing," starts and ends in Georgia but also takes the reader to Vienna and New York. First published in 1922, the novel tells the story of Carletto, son of a white European academic and an African American daughter of former slaves, who,...
by Scott Peeples
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2007
Controversies abound in studies of Edgar Allan Poe. From the time of his death well into the twentieth century, partisans debated the issue of his character: was he an alcoholic? drug addict? pathological liar? necrophile? In the 1920s and 30s, psychoanalytic critics sought to divorce the study of...
The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema
Rediscovering Germany's Filmic Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Traditionally, Weimar cinema has been equated with the work of a handful of auteurist filmmakers and a limited number of canonical films. Often a single, limited phenomenon, "expressionist film," has been taken as synonymous with the cinema of the entire period. But in recent decades, such...
Mark Twain under Fire
Reception and Reputation, Criticism and Controversy, 1851-2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
Threatened by a rival editor brandishing a double-barreled shotgun, young Samuel Clemens had his first taste of literary criticism. Clemens began his long writing career penning satirical articles for his brother's newspaper in Hannibal, Missouri. His humor delighted everyone except his targets, and...