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Cover of Kristin Bech & Ruth Möhlig-Falke: Grammar – Discourse – Context

Kristin Bech & Ruth Möhlig-Falke: Grammar – Discourse – Context

This collected volume brings together a wide array of international linguists working on diachronic language change with a specific focus on the history of English, who work within usage-based …

Cover of Peter Hess: Resisting Pluralization and Globalization in German Culture, 1490–1540

Peter Hess: Resisting Pluralization and Globalization in German Culture, 1490–1540

A critical reading of both literary and non-literary German texts published between 1490 and 1540 exposes a populist backlash against perceived social and political disruptions, the dramatic expansio …

Cover of Anke Finger & Gabi Kathöfer: KulturConfusão – On German-Brazilian Interculturalities

Anke Finger & Gabi Kathöfer: KulturConfusão – On German-Brazilian Interculturalities

The analyses of German and Brazilian cultures found in this book offer a much-needed rethinking of the intercultural paradigm for the humanities and literary and cultural studies. This collection exa …

Cover of Carola Daffner & Beth A. Muellner: German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives

Carola Daffner & Beth A. Muellner: German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives

In the last few decades, the phrase “spatial turn” has received increased attention in German Studies, inspired by developments within the discipline of geography. The volume German Women Writers and …

Cover of Sonja E. Klocke & Jennifer R. Hosek: Christa Wolf

Sonja E. Klocke & Jennifer R. Hosek: Christa Wolf

Interest in Christa Wolf continues to grow. Her classics are being reprinted and new titles are appearing posthumously, becoming bestsellers, and being translated. Energetic scholarly debates engage …

Cover of Margaret McCarthy: German Pop Literature

Margaret McCarthy: German Pop Literature

Pop literature of the 1990s enjoyed bestselling success, as well as an extensive and sometimes bluntly derogatory reception in the press. Since then, less censorious scholarship on pop has emerged to …

Cover of Viola Wiegand & Michaela Mahlberg: Corpus Linguistics, Context and Culture

Viola Wiegand & Michaela Mahlberg: Corpus Linguistics, Context and Culture

Corpus Linguistics, Context and Culture demonstrates the potential of corpus linguistic methods for investigating language patterns across a range of contexts. Organised in three sections, the chapte …

Cover of Zeno Ackermann & Sabine Schülting: Precarious Figurations

Zeno Ackermann & Sabine Schülting: Precarious Figurations

Precarious Figurations focuses on the reception of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Germany. Looking at theatrical practices and critical or scholarly disco …

Cover of Mary Helen Dupree & Sean B. Franzel: Performing Knowledge, 1750-1850

Mary Helen Dupree & Sean B. Franzel: Performing Knowledge, 1750-1850

The period between 1750 and 1850 was a time when knowledge and its modes of transmission were reconsidered and reworked in fundamental ways. Social and political transformations, such as the French R …

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Lynn L. Wolff: W.G. Sebald’s Hybrid Poetics

This book offers a new critical perspective on the perpetual problem of literature’s relationship to reality and in particular on the sustained tension between literature and historiography. The scho …