Reviews
If you are interested in reviewing for The German Quarterly, contact Astrid Weigert at weigerta@georgetown.edu.
Previous Reviews: Issue 80.3
Current Reviews: Issues 81.3
Review Essay
Gottlieb, Susannah Young-Ah, ed. and intro. Hannah Arendt. Reflections on Literature and
Culture. Schestag, Thomas. Die unbewältigte Sprache. Hannah Arendts Theorie der
Dichtung. (PAUL NORTH)
Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Culture
Classen, Albrecht. The Medieval Chastity Belt: A Myth-Making Process. (KATHLEEN COYNE
KELLY)
18th and 19th Century Literature and Culture
Bay, Hansjörg, and Kai Merten, eds. Die Ordnung der Kulturen: Zur Konstruktion ethnischer,
nationaler und zivilisatorischer Differenzen 1750–1850. (DAVID L. SMITH)
Moore, Evelyn K., and Simpson, Patricia Anne, eds. The Enlightened Eye. Goethe and Visual Culture.
(EDGAR LANDGRAF)
Richter, Simon. Missing the Breast. Gender, Fantasy, and the Body in the German Enlightenment.
(ANKE GILLEIR)
Sotiropoulos, Carol Strauss. Early Feminists and the Education Debates: England, France, Germany 1760–1810. (LAURA DEIULIO)
20th and 21st Century Literature and Culture
Albrecht, Nicola. Verschollen im Meer der Medien: Kafkas Romanfragment “Amerika”: Zur
Rekonstruktion und Deutung eines Medienkomplexes. (HELEN HUGHES)
Bahr, Erhard. Weimar on the Pacific. German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism. (JAMES K. LYON)
Barndt, Kerstin. Sentiment und Sachlichkeit. Der Roman der Neuen Frau in der Weimarer
Republik.
(MEIKE G.WERNER)
Blackler, Deane. Reading W.G. Sebald: Adventure and Disobedience. (GARY SCHMIDT)
Bremer, Kai, Fabian Lampart, and Jörg Wesche, eds. Schreiben am Schnittpunkt. Poesie und
Wissen bei Durs Grünbein. (ANNE-ROSEMEYER)
Clarke, David, and Arne De Winde, eds. Reinhard Jirgl. Perspektiven, Lesarten, Kontexte.
(CHRISTINE MAGERSKI)
Jenemann, David. Adorno in America. (ULRICH PLASS)
Kraft, Helga, and Therese Hörnigk, eds. Eine Welt aus Sprache — Zum Werk von Gerlind
Reinshagen: Eine kritische Anthologie. (CARLA LOVE)
Kucher, Primus-Heinz, ed. Literatur und Kultur im Österreich der Zwanziger Jahre. (HILLARY
HERZOG)
Matthias, Bettina. The Hotel as Setting in Early 20th
-Century German and Austrian Literature:
Checking in to Tell a Story. (ERIC J. KLAUS)
Moltke, Johannes von. No Place Like Home. Locations of Heimat in German Cinema.
(PETER C. PFEIFFER)
Nader, Andrés. Traumatic Verses. On Poetry in German from the Concentration Camps 1933–1945. (DEBORAH VIETOR-ENGLÄNDER)
Robb, David, ed. Protest Song in East and West Germany since the 1960s. (KRISTIN REBIEN)
Schindler, Stephan K., and Lutz Koepnick, eds. The Cosmopolitan Screen: German Cinema and the Global Imaginary, 1945 to the Present. (BARBARAMENNEL)
Schoeps, Karl-Heinz. Literature and Film in the Third Reich. (DORIS KIRCHNER)
Staskowski, Andréa. Conversations with Experience: Feminist Hermeneutics and the Autobiographical
Films of German Women. (JENIFER K.WARD)
Taberner, Stuart, and Paul Cooke, eds. German Culture, Politics, and Literature into the
Twenty-First Century: Beyond Normalization. (CLAUDIA A. BECKER)
German Studies across the Disciplines
Beller, Manfred. Eingebildete Nationalcharaktere: Vorträge und Aufsätze zur literarischen
Imagologie. (PATRICK FORTMANN)
Blackbourn, David, and James Retallack, eds. Localism, Landscape, and the Ambiguities of
Place. German-Speaking Central Europe, 1860–1930. (PETER BLICKLE)
Brockmann, Stephen. Nuremberg: The Imaginary Capital. (BRAD PRAGER)
Chin, Rita. The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany. (HÜLYA YILMAZ)
Cohen, Beth. Case Closed. Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America. (SIEGRUN WILDNER)
Goebel, Stefan. The GreatWar and Medieval Memory.War, Remembrance and Medievalism in
Britain and Germany, 1914–1940. (BERND HÜPPAUF)
Levin, David L. Unsettling Opera: Staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky. (JOHN
BOKINA)