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1	On the Natural History of Destruction more books like this by Winfried Georg Sebald add to wishlist W. G. Sebald writes eloquently about Germany in the aftermath of World War II, particularly the strange reluctance of Germans to talk about the extensive bombing of their country by the Allies. He also discusses the work of German writers who have written on the subject, or avoided it--particularly Alfred Andersch and Jean Améry. Sebald has been ... see all copies from $5.33! new only from $7.98! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Language of Silence: West German Literature and the Holocaust more books like this by Professor Ernestine Schlant add to wishlist Focusing on individual authors from Heinrich Boll to Gunther Grass, Hermann Lenz to Peter Schneider, The Language of Silence offers an analysis of West German literature as it tries to come to terms with the Holocaust and its impact on postwar West German society. Exploring postwar literature as the barometer of Germany's unconsciously held values ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.75! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Wandering; Notes and Sketches more books like this by Hermann Hesse add to wishlist see all copies from $17.06! first editions
4	The German-Jewish Dialogue: An Anthology of Literary Texts, 1749-1993 more books like this by Professor Ritchie Robertson (Editor) add to wishlist 'I love the German character more than anything else in the world, and my breast is an archive of German song' So wrote Heinrich Heine in 1824, adding: 'It is likely that my Muse gave her German dress something of a foreign cut from annoyance with the German character'. Here Heine sums up the ambivalent emotions of Jews who felt at home in German ... see all copies from $17.25! new only from $58.99!
5	The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945 more books like this by Professor Harold B Segel add to wishlist For nearly half a century, the Iron Curtain obscured from Western eyes a vital group of national and regional writers. Seen as a whole, the literatures of Eastern Europe during the second half of the twentieth century are extraordinarily rich, and in recent years many Eastern European novelists, poets, and playwrights have attracted wider ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $9.95! \| first editions
6	Disinherited Mind: Essays in Modern German Literature and Thought more books like this by Erich Heller (Preface by) add to wishlist Since first publication in 1952, The Disinherited Mind has been in continuous demand, recognized as a work whose significance extends far beyond the subject of German letters. The noted critic and poet Edwin Muir has written of it, "The condition it describes is our condition, and I can think of no other modem book in which it is described so ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.91! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Selected Short Writings more books like this by Karl Kraus, Professor Elias Canetti, Hermann Broch add to wishlist The literature of the Wiener Moderne exhibits biting social satire and other related aspects, first emanating from Karl Kraus (1874-1936), a prolific writer, difficult to classify, who reminds people of Jonathan Swift. Novelists and essayists Hermann Broch (1886-1951) and Elias Canetti (1905-94), who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981, ... see all copies from $14.69! new only from $15.00!
8	First German Reader: A Beginner's Dual-Language Book more books like this by Harry Steinhauer (Editor) add to wishlist Specially chosen for their power to evoke German life and culture, these short, simple readings include poems, stories, essays, and anecdotes. Featured authors include Goethe, Hesse, Heine, Schiller, and Holderlin, in selections offering a variety of subject matter and gradual advancement in language skills. see all copies from $4.01! new only from $6.49! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Exile in New York: German & Austrian Writers After 1933 more books like this by Helmut F. Pfanner add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
10	Bk of Reykjaholar more books like this by Marianne E Kalinke add to wishlist In this study Marianne E. Kalinke examines what may be considered the last great medieval legendary, the Book of Reykjaholar, produced on the very eve of the Reformation. The significance of this legendary resides in its preserving in Icelandic translation a group of otherwise unattested medieval Low German saints' lives. Kalinke presents a ... see all copies from $2.64! new only from $3.49! \| first editions
11	Anti-Nazi Writers in Exile more books like this by Egbert Krispyn add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
12	Plays and essays more books like this by Friedrich Durrenmatt, Volkmar Sander (Editor), Martin Esslin (Foreword by) add to wishlist Six richly inventive pieces by the Swiss master of existentialist theater. Includes "Romulus the Great, 21 Points to the Physician," and "A Monster Lecture on Justice and Law." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.80! \| first editions \| SVS
13	Complex Pleasure: Forms of Feeling in German Literature more books like this by Professor Stanley Corngold add to wishlist Complex Pleasure deals with questions of literary feeling in eight major German writers Lessing, Kant, Hslderlin, Nietzsche, Musil, Kafka, Trakl, and Benjamin. On the basis of close readings of these authors Stanley Corngold makes vivid the following ideas: that where there is literature there is complex pleasure; that this pleasure is complex ... see all copies from $4.04! new only from $4.16! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	A Companion to Twentieth-Century German Literature more books like this by Raymond Furness add to wishlist The topicality of Germany and its cultural heritage has never been more apparent, and a knowledge of the unique and fascinating contribution of the German-speaking countries to twentieth-century literature is essential in any attempt to understand the European mind. The giants of the early part of the century, such as Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $40.15! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Going Beyond the Pairs: The Coincidence of Opposites in German Romanticism, Zen, and Deconstruction more books like this by Dennis McCort add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.99!
16 view cover	The Cambridge History of German Literature more books like this by Helen Watanabe-O'kelly (Editor) add to wishlist This book describes German literary history up to the unification of Germany in 1990. Contributors, all leading scholars in their field, take a fresh look at the main authors and movements, and also ask what Germans in a given period were actually reading and writing, what they would have seen at the local theatre or found in the local lending ... see all copies from $26.99! new only from $36.00! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Era of German Expressionism more books like this by Paul Raabe add to wishlist see all copies from $4.07! new only from $10.20! \| first editions \| SVS
18	Critical Essays more books like this by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Bruce Armstrong (Editor), Reinhold Grimm (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| first editions
19 view cover	A History of German Literature more books like this by Wilhelm Scherer add to wishlist Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: favour with the younger generation, which in the last quarter of the century began to strike out powerfully in all directions, yet the best of these hot-headed youths ... see all copies from $5.20! new only from $26.70! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Early 20th Century German Fiction more books like this by Professor Alexander Stephan (Editor) add to wishlist This collection of High Modernism among Austrian and German writers includes: "Pogrom" and a selection from "The Case of Sergeant Grischa" by Arnold Zweig; "The Murder of a Buttercup" and a selection from Berlin Alexanderplatz (recently cited as one of the 100 Most Meaningful Books of All Time in a survey that was reported in "The Guardian", and ... see all copies from $4.33! new only from $4.33! \| first editions
21 view cover	Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem more books like this by Robert Alter add to wishlist In four chapters, Robert Alter explains the prismlike radiance created by the association of three modern masters, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, and Gershom Scholem. The volume pinpoints the intersections of these divergent witnesses to the modern condition of doubt, no-man's-land between traditional religion and modern secular culture. Scholem, ... see all copies from $21.95! first editions
22 view cover	Vernacular Literary Theory in the Middle Ages: The German Tradition, 800-1300, in Its European Context more books like this by Walter Haug, Joanna M Catling (Translator) add to wishlist The first edition of this book appeared in German in 1985, and set an agenda for the study of medieval literary theory. Rather than seeing vernacular writers' reflections on their art, as found in prologues, epilogues and interpolations in literary texts, as merely deriving from established Latin traditions, Walter Haug shows that they marked the ... see all copies from $42.95! new only from $43.39! \| first editions \| SVS
23	A History of Histories of German Literature: 1835-1914 more books like this by Michael S Batts add to wishlist Knowledge of German literature is frequently based on the hundreds of general histories of German literature that have been published since the genre first appeared at the beginning of the 19th century. In this work Michael Batts attempts to describe the various forms which these histories took between 1835 and 1914, not only in Germany but in ... see all copies from $2.23! new only from $9.95! \| first editions
24 view cover	Inscribing the Other more books like this by Sander L Gilman add to wishlist '"Inscribing the Other" is breathtaking in its scope and detail. It will become many readers' favorite book' - Stanley Corngold, author of "The Fate of the Self: German Writers and French Theory". 'Steeped in erudition and discernment' - Avital Ronell, author of "The Telephone Book: Technology - Schizophrenia - Electric Speech". "Inscribing the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.98! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	A History of German Literary Criticism more books like this by Peter Uwe Hohendahl (Photographer), Klaus L Berghahn (Photographer) add to wishlist 'First published in Germany in 1985, "Geschichte der deutschen Literatur (1730-1980)" has been widely recognized as an innovative and ambitious study of the German critical tradition ...an impressive work' - "Rocky Mountain Review". 'This effort to grasp literary criticism as a totality is unique, and yields many interesting insights into literary ... see all copies from $3.40! new only from $4.98! \| first editions

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