This book locates the paradoxical process of collecting (as an activity that necessarily involves displacement and dispersal) in the ways nineteenth- and twentieth-century German-language literature (and in one case, cinema)…

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Indulge in the beauty of poetry with Samuel Frederick Green's Poems Chiefly Occasional. This collection of works includes sentimental ballads, patriotic odes, and humorous limericks - something for every mood…

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A penetrating new reading of Murnau's classic silent film that shows its transitional status, both historically and stylistically, while emphasizing its innovative camerawork and the ethical stakes of its story.

Interest in the Swiss modernist writer Robert Walser (1878-1956) has widened thanks to high praise from intellectuals such as Susan Sontag, W.G. Sebald, and J.M. Coetzee, and an increasing number…

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Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) and Herman Melville (1819-1891) addressed in their writings a range of issues: the reach and limits of democracy; the nature of freedom; and, the roles of race…