Camden House imprint: 50 books
The Nazi Past in Contemporary German Film
Viewing Experiences of Intimacy and Immersion
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
How has the German image of the Nazi past changed since the reunification of East and West Germany? And what role have cinema and television played in this process? This intriguing study argues that since 1990, the two media have turned toward inner German experiences of the Third Reich. From intimate...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Arguably the most decorated and critically acclaimed writer of today, J. M. Coetzee is a deeply intellectual writer. Yet while just about everyone who comes to Coetzee's writing is aware that the visible superstructure of his works is moved from below by a vast substructure of ideas, we are still...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
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 impact. Some, like Karen Duve, Daniel Kehlmann, and Sasa Stanisic, have achieved international recognition;...
Stefan Zweig and World Literature
Twenty-First-Century Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
The twenty-first century has seen a renewed surge of cultural and critical interest in the works of the Austrian-Jewish author Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), who was among the most-read and -acclaimed authors worldwide in the 1920s and 1930s but after 1945 fell into critical disfavor and relative obscurity....
Edgar Julius Jung, Right-Wing Enemy of the Nazis
A Political Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
By the time of his death, Edgar Julius Jung (1894-1934) was well known in Germany and Europe as one of the foremost ideologues of the political movement that called itself the Conservative Revolution and as a right-wing opponent of the Nazis. He was speechwriter for and confidant of Franz von Papen...
The Wounded Self
Writing Illness in Twenty-First-Century German Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
In the German-speaking world there has been a new wave - intensifying since 2007 - of autobiographically inspired writing on illness and disability, death and dying. Nina Schmidt's book takes this writing seriously as literature, examining how the authors of such personal narratives come to write...
by Michial Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
This book looks past the frequently discussed autobiographical nature of John Updike's fiction to consider the role in Updike's work of the most powerful and peculiar human faculty: the imagination. Michial Farmer argues that, while the imagination is for Updike a means of human survival and a necessary...
Melville's Mirrors
Literary Criticism and America's Most Elusive Author
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Herman Melville is among the most thoroughly canonized authors in American literature, and the body of criticism dealing with his writing is immense. Until now, however, there has been no standard volume on the history of Melville criticism. That a volume on this subject is timely and important is...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
J. M. Coetzee is perhaps the most critically acclaimed bestselling author of imaginative fiction writing in English today. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 and is the first writer to have been awarded two Booker Prizes. The present volume makes critical views of this important writer...
Music into Fiction
Composers Writing, Compositions Imitated
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
This book deals with three aspects that have been neglected in the burgeoning field of music and literature. The "First Movement" of the book considers writers from German Romanticism to the present who, like Robert Schumann, first saw themselves as writers before they turned to composition,...
Stages of European Romanticism
Cultural Synchronicity across the Arts, 1798-1848
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Romanticism was a truly European phenomenon, extending roughly from the French Revolution to the 1848 revolutions and embracing not only literature and drama but also music and visual arts. Because of Romanticism's vast scope, most treatments have restricted themselves to single countries or to specific...
Schiller's Literary Prose Works
New Translations and Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
Friedrich Schiller was a dramatist and poet for the ages, an important aesthetic theorist, and among Germany's first historians. But he left few works of literary prose behind -- seven short tales and fragments, almost all from early in his career -- and although they include some of his most resonant...
Hanns Eisler's Art Songs
Arguing with Beauty
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Best known for his collaborations with Bertolt Brecht, composer Hanns Eisler also set nineteenth-century German poetry to music that both absorbs and disturbs the Lieder tradition. This book traces Eisler's art songs (German: Kunstlieder) through twentieth-century political crises from World War I...
Modern German Thought from Kant to Habermas
An Annotated German-Language Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
German-language thinkers such as Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud are central to modernity. Yet their reception in the English-speaking world has largely depended on translations, a situation that has often hampered full engagement with the rhetorical and philosophical complexity of the German history...