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Lorna Martens
Analyzes East German feminism for an American audience through an exploration of their women writers.
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Offers the first systematic study of women’s autobiographical writing about childhood. More than 175 works - primarily from English-speaking countries and France, as well as other European countries - are…
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The Diary Novel is the first book to trace that history, concentrating on French, German and English works.
Examines works by novelists, dramatists, poets, and intellectuals of twentieth century- among them, Sigmund Freud, Arthur Schnitzler, Robert Musil, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Franz Kafka…
We once believed in the power of Proust’s madeleine and Wordsworth’s boyhood memories-before literary culture began to defer to Freud’s questioning of adult memories of childhood. In this first sustained…
This edited collection brings together a range of international studies to explore the role of markets and consumption in the making of mothers. Combining personal accounts from many mothers with…
By exploring the concept of the tender gaze in German film, theater, and literature, this volume’s contributors illustrate how perspective-taking in works of art fosters empathy and prosocial behaviors.
