Reviews

Issue 80.2

Review Essay
Hohendahl, Peter Uwe, ed. German Studies in the United States. A Historical Handbook. (Winfred Lehmann and Janet Swaffar)

Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Culture
Reichert, Hermann, ed. Das Nibelungenlied. Nach der St. Galler Handschrift. (Albrecht Classen)
Telle, Joachim, Friedrich Vollhardt, and Hermann Wiegand, eds. Wilhelm Kühlmann. Vom Späthumanismus zur Spätaufklärung. Ästhetische und kulturgeschichtliche Dimensionen der frühneuzeitlichen Lyrik und Verspublizistik in Deutschland. (Richard E. Schade)

18th and 19th Century Literature and Culture
Atherton, Geoffrey. The Decline and Fall of Virgil in Eighteenth-Century Germany. The Repressed Muse. (Martin Disselkamp)
Curran, Jane V., and Christophe Fricker, eds. Schiller’s “On Grace and Dignity” in Its Cultural Context: Essays and a New Translation. (Daniel Dahlstrom)
Klaas Meilier, Brigitta. Hochsaison in Sils-Maria: Meta von Salis und Friedrich Nietzsche. Zur Geschichte ihrer Begegnung. (Beth Muellner)
Martin, Nicholas, ed. Schiller: National Poet—Poet of Nations. (Cora Lee Kluge)
Richter, Simon, ed. The Literature of Weimar Classicism. (Daniel Purdy)
Tatlock, Lynne, and Matt Erlin, eds. German Culture in Nineteenth-Century America. Reception, Adaptation, Transformation. (Christiane Harzig)
Youngman, Paul A. Black Devil and Iron Angel: The Railway in Nineteenth-Century German Realism. (Birgit A. Jensen)

20th and 21st Century Literature and Culture
Eke, Norbert Otto, and Hartmut Steinecke, eds. Shoah in der deutschsprachigen Literatur. (Erin McGlothlin)
Kormann, Eva, Anke Gilleir, and Angelika Schlimmer, eds. Textmaschinenkörper. Genderorientierte Lektüren des Androiden. (Caroline Rupprecht)
Marven, Lyn. Body and Narrative in Contemporary Literatures in German: Herta Müller, Libuše Moníková, Kerstin Hensel. (Sabine Gross)
McBride, Patrizia C. The Void of Ethics: Robert Musil and the Experience of Modernity. (Christian Rogowski)
Oesmann, Astrid. Staging History: Brecht’s Social Concepts of Ideology. (Paul Gagliardi)
Tobias, Rochelle. The Discourse of Nature in the Poetry of Paul Celan: The Unnatural World. (Ulrich Plass)
Vöhler, Martin, and Bernd Seidensticker, eds. In cooperation with Wolfgang Emmerich. Mythenkorrekturen: Zu einer paradoxalen Form der Mythenrezeption. (Kathleen L. Komar)
Wachtel, Andrew Baruch. Remaining Relevant after Communism: The Role of the Writer in Eastern Europe. (Harold B. Segel)

German across the Disciplines
Benjamin, Andrew. Style and Time: Essays on the Politics of Appearance. (Howard Eiland)
Rewald, Sabine. With essays by Ian Buruma and Matthias Eberle. Glitter and Doom, German Portraits from the 1920s. (Marion F. Deshmukh)

 

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