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Dear AGS members,
We would like to bring you up to date with our latest Camden House publications. Our May/June publications range
widely – from new aspects on Schiller, a study on Kant’s philosophy to Viennese
Fin de Siècle literature, poetics after World War II to Post-Wende culture in Germany.
NEW
German and European Poetics after the
Holocaust: Crisis and Creativity
Edited by GERT HOFMANN, RACHEL MagSHAMHRÁIN, MARKO PAJEVIĆ & MICHAEL SHIELDS
New essays on poetical and theoretical responses to the Holocaust's rupture of German and European civilization.
£40.00, May 2011, 978 1 57113 290 1, 3 b/w illus.; 318pp, HB, Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture,
Camden House
Who Is This Schiller Now?:
Essays on His Reception and Significance
Edited by JEFFREY L. HIGH, NICHOLAS MARTIN & NORBERT OELLERS
Contributions by top international Schiller scholars on the reception of the great German writer and dramatist,
emphasizing his realist aspects.
£55.00, May 2011, 978 1 57113 488 2, 4 b/w illus.; 512pp, HB, Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture,
Camden House
Imagining the Age of Goethe in German
Literature, 1970-2010
JOHN D. PIZER
The first scholarly book treating the huge amount of recent and contemporary fiction set in the Age of Goethe and
employing Goethe and other figures of the period as characters.
£45.00, August 2011, 978 1 57113 517 9, 224pp, HB, Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, Camden
House
Imperial Messages:
Orientalism as Self-Critique in the Habsburg
Fin de Siècle
ROBERT LEMON
Orientalism as self-critique rather than hegemonic discourse in works by Hofmannsthal, Musil, and Kafka.
£40.00, June 2011, 978 1 57113 500 1, 3 b/w illus.; 184pp, HB, Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture,
Camden House
NEW IN PAPERBACK –
Inspection copies available!
Many of our titles – companions, translated primary texts and reference works – are also available in paperback
and the list grows continuously. To see the full range of CH paperbacks, visit the
Books For Classroom Use section on our website.
Writing the New Berlin:
The German Capital in Post-Wall Literature
KATHARINA GERSTENBERGER
A study of the "patchwork imaginary" that is postwall Berlin fiction and its significance for the new Germany.
A true gem for students and scholars who venture beyond the introduction to follow Gerstenberger's detailed
analyses and thoughtful insights. GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW
£19.99 July 2011, 978 1 57113 513 1, 220pp, PB, Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, Camden
House
German Culture, Politics, and Literature
into the Twenty-First Century: Beyond
Normalization
Edited by STUART TABERNER & PAUL COOKE
The first major study of the contemporary German debate over "normalization" and its impact across the range of
cultural, political, economic, intellectual, and historical discourses.
With its cross-disciplinary approach, the book provides a good overview of the discursive shifts that have accompanied
German identity debates since the 1990s. MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
£19.99, July 2011, 978 1 57113 512 4, 3 b/w illus.; 254pp, PB, Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture,
Camden House
PHILOSOPHY
Kant and the Concept of Community
Edited by CHARLTON PAYNE & LUCAS THORPE
An interdisciplinary collection of essays focused on Kant's work on the concept of community.
£19.99, April 2011, 978 1 58046 387 4, 328pp, PB, North American Kant Society Studies in Philosophy, University
of Rochester Press
Should you have any questions or if you would like to request review copies, please do not hesitate to contact me. If you are interested in inspection copies for course adoption, please
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Kind regards,
Franziska Scheithauer
Franziska Scheithauer
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