This volume presents a cross-section of current Brecht studies, reflecting a variety of approaches and perspectives ranging from detailed exegesis of particular texts to cultural criticism in the broadest sense. It provides analyses of Brecht's work and investigates his pervasive influence in 20th century literature. The studies collected here cover the whole of Brecht's career, from the early one-acter "Kleinbrgerhochzeit" of 1919 to the "Sinn und Form" years immediately preceding his death, as well as his use of tradition and his legacy. By way of redressing a tendency in Brecht reception...

A special double issue of "Publications of the English Goethe Society" to celebrate the 70th birthday of Professor Martin Swales (UCL, UK)
This volume collects papers from a conference held at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies in October 2010. The conference aimed to analyse how literary texts articulate (and give voice to) ideas and ideologies. In contrast to most philosophy, literature rarely makes claims to systematic conceptual rigour. Literary statements are always conjectural; they are also conditioned by the conventions of the genre in which they are made.
Because...

Cities are both real and imaginary places whose identity is dependent on their distinctive heritage: a network of historically transmitted cultural resources. The essays in this volume, which originate from a lecture series at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, explore the complex and multi-layered identities of European cities.
Themes that run through the essays include: nostalgia for a grander past; location between Eastern and Western ideologies, religions and cultures; and the fluidity and palimpsest quality of city identity.
Not only does the book...

Dieser Band widmet sich dem Berliner Warenhaus des spaten 19. und fruhen 20. Jahrhunderts. Die interdisziplinaren Beitrage behandeln das Thema im Rahmen der Okonomiegeschichte, der Frauen- und Antisemitismusforschung, sowie im Hinblick auf Aspekte der Werbung, Stadtplanung und Architektur. Im Zentrum steht die Analyse zeitgenossischer Diskurse und Debatten um das Warenhaus als Symbol der Moderne.
This interdisciplinary volume explores the history of Berlin department stores in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The contributions consider aspects of economic history, gender-related...

How did female German-Jewish writers negotiate issues of femininity, Jewishness, and urban experience at the beginning of the 20th century? Godela Weiss-Sussex describes the evolution of multi-dimensional portrayals of the personal and societal place of the "German Jewish woman" in these intersecting discourses. She combines this with an analysis of the aesthetic and communicative structures of the texts, making visible the strategies these writers used to attract a wide readership and the literary and intellectual traditions in which they placed themselves.

Das Warenhaus war uber Deutschland hinaus bis in die 1930er-Jahre einer der kulturgeschichtlich bedeutendsten Ansatzpunkte fur die Auseinandersetzung mit der Moderne und der Konsumkultur. Die Autoren und Autorinnen dieses Bandes zeigen sowohl den Facettenreichtum des Warenhaus-Diskurses in der Literatur, dem Feuilleton, in Musicals und im Film als auch die Bandbreite der teils sozial-und kulturkritischen, teils fortschrittsorientierten Thematisierungen auf. Dabei kommen Romane von Zola, Brecht und Fallada sowie Schriften weniger bekannter Autoren zur Sprache. Das emanzipatorische Potenzial...