Foreign Language Study : German

The portrayal of conflicts transmits norms governing the mutual behaviour of men and women. This critical literary study identifies patterns of conflictual processes in such disparate 17th century texts as pastoral poems and regional regulations. It shows how the portrayal of conflicts gives readers an impression of social commitment. more...

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This edition of Ulrich von Zatzikhofen’s Lanzelet replaces the old edition by Karl August Hahn and thus fulfils a long-felt need in German Medieval Studies. In contrast to Hahn’s procedure of using the (somewhat sparse) texts to construct a definitive sin more...

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Following extensive revision and updating, the Killy Lexicon of Literature will be republished beginning in 2008. Thus, a new and improved edition of this renowned standard work of German literary science will be made available to scientists, students, and literature enthusiasts. The Killy includes bio-bibliographical articles about all of the important German-language authors from the Middle Ages to the present. It provides clear, reliable, and extensive information on the life and works of each author, thus facilitating the classification of each into a historical and literary-historical context. The Killy includes not only the greatest and most important authors of each era, but also journalists, screenplay authors, literary scientists, and writers of specialist literature. Moreover, the easy-to-read articles are distinguished by the synopsis of biographies, contemporary history, and oeuvre, like no other lexicon of German literature provides. The new edition of the Killy will be published in thirteen volumes (Vols. 1-12: Authors and Works; Vol. 13: Index). Key Features: Renowned lexicon, unique in its completeness, on German literature from its beginnings to the present. Extensively revised, updated and extended new edition. Includes approx. 1000 new entries on modern literature. Entries offer a synopsis of life and work. Revised by today’s leading experts in German language and literary studies. more...

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The words you need, quickly and easily. Especially designed for beginning learners, this dictionary will help you master the essential words of German. Inside you'll find entries that include pronunciations and grammatical information in a clear, easy-to-understand format, as well as helpful example sentences to show each word in everyday context. more...

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Memory Matters juxtaposes in tripartite structure texts by a child of German bystanders (Wolf), an Austrian-Jewish child-survivor (Klüger), a daughter of Jewish émigrés (Honigmann), a daughter of an officer involved in the German resistance (Bruhns), a granddaughter of a baptized Polish Jew (Maron), and a granddaughter of German refuges from East Prussia (Dückers). Placed outside of the distorting victim-perpetrator, Jewish-German, man-woman, and war-postwar binary, it becomes visible that the texts neither complete nor contradict each other, but respond to one another by means of inspiration, reverberation, refraction, incongruity, and ambiguity. Focusing on genealogies of women, the book delineates a different cultural memory than the counting of (male-inflected) generations and a male-dominated Holocaust and postwar literature canon. It examines intergenerational conflicts and the negotiation of memories against the backdrop of a complicated mother-daughter relationship that follows unpredictable patterns and provokes both discord and empathy. Schaumann’s approach questions the assumption that German-gentile and German-Jewish postwar experiences are necessarily diametrically opposed (i.e. respond to a “negative symbiosis”) and uncovers intersections and continuities in addition to conflicts. more...

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