Scholarly Editing and German Literature: Revision, Revaluation, Edition offers international perspectives on the process, products and impacts of a commonly overlooked aspect of literary scholarship - scholarly editing contributions range from medieval to contemporary, correspondence to poetry, their forms from reports on works in progress to theoretical considerations. Bodo Plachta's observation that schools of scholarly editing in North America and Europe share a common origin and a basic set of common premises opens the volume and serves as an introduction to the five thematic...

Poets, painters, philosophers, and scientists alike debated new ways of thinking about visual culture in the "long eighteenth century". The essays in The Enlightened Eye: Goethe and Visual Culture demonstrate the extent to which Goethe advanced this discourse in virtually all disciplines. The concept of visuality becomes a constitutive moment in a productive relationship between the verbal and visual arts with far-reaching implications for the formation of bourgeois identity, pedagogy, and culture. From a variety of theoretical perspectives, the contributors to this volume examine the...

Prompted by recent challenges to and debates about the relative public silence concerning the effects of the Allied air war over Europe during World War II, this collection of essays examines literary, visual (film and photography), and institutional (museums) representations of the bombing of civilian targets, predominantly in Germany. The authors examine narrative strategies of both well-known and relatively little known works as well as the moral and ideological presuppositions of the varied representations of the depredations of total war. The introduction and afterword by the editors...

This volume focuses on coalitions and collaborations formed by refugees from Nazi Germany in their host countries. Exile from Nazi Germany was a global phenomenon involving the expulsion and displacement of entire families, organizations, and communities. While forced emigration inevitable meant loss of familiar structures and surroundings, successful integration into often very foreign cultures was possible due to the exiles' ability to access and/or establish networks. By focusing on such networks rather than on individual experiences, the contributions in this volume provide a complex and...

Seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre ist die Essay-Forschung wieder in Bewegung geraten. Wahrend altere Untersuchungen auf einen Uberblick der Gattungsgeschichte fixiert waren, hat sich nunmehr das Postulat einer notwendigen Historisierung der Essayproduktion durchgesetzt. Zugleich ist die Einsicht in die besondere Bedeutung des Reflexionsmediums Essay fur die gattungsauflosende literarische Moderne und die durch vielfaltige Medieninnovationen gepragte Postmoderne gewachsen. Daher begreift der Sammelband, der sich bewusst von gangigen literaturgeschichtlichen Epochengliederungen abgrenzt, den bis...

Shakespeare as German Author, edited by John McCarthy, revisits in particular the formative phase of German Shakespeare reception 1760-1830. Following a detailed introduction to the historical and theoretical parameters of an era in search of its own literary voice, six case studies examine Shakespeare’s catalytic role in reshaping German aesthetics and stage production. They illuminate what German speakers found so appealing (or off-putting) about Shakespeare’s spirit, consider how translating it nurtured new linguistic and aesthetic sensibilities, and reflect on its relationship to...

Darwin’s idea has been called the best idea anyone ever had. In Interrogations of Evolutionism in German Literature 1859-2011 Nicholas Saul offers the first representative account of German literary responses to Darwinian evolutionism from Raabe and Jensen via Ernst Jünger and Botho Strauß to Dietmar Dath. Often identified with National Socialist ideology and hence notably absent from the public sphere after 1945, Darwinian thought is in fact shown to be distorted though the lens of Social Darwinism and bionationalist organicism. As Nicholas Saul shows, literature has been the main agent...

Wie keine andere wimmelt die deutschsprachige Gegenwartsliteratur von Gespenstern, die unverarbeitete, verdrängte und unsichtbare Aspekte der Vergangenheit enthüllen. Während der Fall der Mauer 1989 als jüngstes Emblem historischer Dynamik und als ‘Schritt vorwärts’ im Heilungsprozess der Kriegsnarben betrachtet wurde, verhält die Literatur sich seit Anfang der neunziger Jahre widerspenstig, indem sie sich immer wieder der Geschichte zuwendet und deren Toten heraufbeschwört. Mit diesem Hang zur Nekrophilie stellt die Literatur sich gegen den oft von Aktualitätszwang und selektiver...