Camden House imprint: 50 books
Heinrich von Kleist
Writing after Kant
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The question of Heinrich von Kleist's reading and reception of Kant's philosophy has never been satisfactorily answered. The present study aims to reassess this question, particularly in the light of Kant's rising importance for the humanities today. It argues not only that Kleist was influenced by...
Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours
A New Translation with Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
Rainer Maria Rilke is arguably the most important modern German-language poet. His New Poems, Duino Elegies, and Sonnets to Orpheus are pillars of 20th-century poetry. Yet his earlier verse is less known. The Book of Hours, written in three bursts between 1899 and 1903, is Rilke's most formative work,...
Enlightened War
German Theories and Cultures of Warfare from Frederick the Great to Clausewitz
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Enlightened War investigates the multiple and complex interactions between warfare and Enlightenment thought. Although the Enlightenment is traditionally identified with the ideals of progress, eternal peace, reason, and self-determination, Enlightenment discourse unfolded during a period of prolonged...
"The Space of Words"
Exile and Diaspora in the Works of Nelly Sachs
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Nelly Sachs (1891-1970) has long been regarded as one of the most significant Holocaust poets. Her conception of language and words as a landscape has been understood by scholars and critics as an exilic ersatz Heimat for the lost German homeland of a displaced poet. This reading, however, is based...
Suddenly Everything Was Different
German Lives in Upheaval
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
What happens when the world in which people have crafted identities for themselves and lived their lives suddenly disappears? How does a person -- or a nation -- confront such a shock? From 1990 to 1993, at an unparalleled moment in German history, Olaf Georg Klein interviewed almost a hundred fellow...
Heiner Müller's Democratic Theater
The Politics of Making the Audience Work
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The East German playwright Heiner Müller (1929-1995) is one of the most influential European dramatists and theater directors since Brecht. While critical literature on Müller often discusses the politics of his works, analysis tends to stop at the level of the text, neglecting the theatrical events...
Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film
Cultural Transformations in Europe, 1732-1933
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
For the last three hundred years, fictions of the vampire have fed off anxieties about cultural continuity. Though commonly represented as a parasitic aggressor from without, the vampire is in fact a native of Europe, and its "metamorphoses," to quote Baudelaire, a distorted image of social...
by Rainer Maria Rilke, Len Krisak, George C. Schoolfield
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Rainer Maria Rilke, the most famous (and important) German language poet of the twentieth century - a master to be ranked with Goethe and Heine - wrote the New Poems of 1907 and 1908 in transition from his late-nineteenth-century style. They mark his appearance as a lyrical, metaphysical poet of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Hemingway's two extended African safaris, the first in the 1930s and the second in the 1950s, gave rise to two of his best-known stories ("The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"), a considerable amount of journalism and correspondence, and two...
Imagining Home
American War Fiction from Hemingway to 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
War has often been seen as the domain of men and thus irrelevant to gender analysis, and American writers have frequently examined war according to traditional gender expectations: that boys become men by going to war and girls become women by building a home. Yet the writers discussed in this book...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Since the mid-1980s there has been a sharp rise in the number of literary publications by Indigenous Australians and in the readership and impact of those works. One contemporary Aboriginal Australian author who continues to make a contribution to both the Australian and the global canon is Kim Scott...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Australian Aboriginal literature, once relegated to the margins of Australian literary studies, now receives both national and international attention. Not only has the number of published texts by contemporary Australian Aboriginals risen sharply, but scholars and publishers have also recently begun...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2009
What was the written culture behind visual artists like Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Rubens? What made the historical novel in nineteenth-century Flanders so different from its counterpart in Holland? What was the literary impact of the huge colonial empires run by the Netherlands and Belgium? What role...
Generic Histories of German Cinema
Genre and Its Deviations
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Over the last few decades, the field of film studies has seen a rise in approaches oriented toward genre: studies that look at thematic, narrative, and stylistic similarities between films, contextualizing them within culture and society. Although there now exists a large body of genre-based scholarship...