Studies in Modern German Literature
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The Studies in Modern German Literature present significant research in German literary history, analysis, theory and criticism. The books in this series include the work of internationally recognized authorities at major research universities, as well as that of emerging scholars in the field.

The series is under the general editorship of its founder, Peter D.G. Brown, Distinguished Service Professor of German at the State University of New York at New Paltz. These studies all deal with German literature since the eighteenth century and are not limited to any methodological, theoretical or critical points of view.

Thus far, the series comprises some ninety volumes, each printed on acid-free paper and bound between hard covers. The first titles in the series were published in 1987. Additional volumes are added to the series every year.

The Studies in Modern German Literature are published by the Peter Lang Publishing Group. Lang books are distributed worldwide from its main facilities in Bern, Switzerland, and from branch offices in Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford and Vienna.

Following is a list of Studies in Modern German Literature that have been accepted into the series to date:

Volume 1: Peter Beicken , Kafkas Kunstaufwand, forthcoming.

Volume 2. John H. Tatum, The Reception of German Literature in U.S. German Texts, 1864-1918, 1988. 397pp., $49.95.

Volume 3. Michael Gilbert, Bertolt Brecht's Striving for Reason, Even in Music: A Critical Assessment, 1988. 334 pp., $53.80.

Volume 4. Joseph L. Brockington, Vier pole expressionistischer Prosa: Kasimir Edschmid, Carl Einstein, Alfred Döblin, August Stramm, 1987. 216 pp., $29.50.

Volume 5. Linda C. DeMeritt, New Subjectivity and Prose Forms of Alienation: Peter Handke and Botho Strauss, 1987. 278 pp., $41.95.

Volume 6. Inga E. Mullen, German Realism in the United States: The American Reception of Meyer, Storm, Raabe, Keller and Fontane, 1988. 206 pp., $36.50.

Volume 7. Robert C. Eisenhauer, Mythology of Souls: Philosophical Perspectives in the Novels of Jean Paul, 1987. 262 pp., $47.50.

Volume 8. Linda M. Marlow, The Concept of Tugend: An Alternative Method of Eighteenth-Century German Novel Classification, 1988. 215pp., $42.

Volume 9. Charlotte Goedsche, Narrative Structure in Wilhelm Raabe's Die Chronik der Sperlingsgasse, 1989. 260 pp., $34.95.

Volume 10. Jean Chick, Form as Expression: A Study of Lyric Poetry Between 1910 and 1915, 1988. 210 pp., $35.50.

Volume 11. Judith Wessler, Lion Feuchtwanger's Erfolg: A "Großstadt" Novel, 1988. 212 pp., $34.50.

Volume 12. Richard R. Ruppel, Gottfried Keller: Poet, Pedagogue and Humanist, 1988. 282 pp., $42.50.

Volume 13. Robert E. Glenny, The Manipulation of Reality in the Works of Heinrich von Kleist, 1987. 245 pp., $39.50.

Volume 14. Thomas P. Bonfiglio, Achim von Arnim's Novellensammlung 1812, 1987. 233 pp., $40.50.

Volume 15. Boria Sax, The Romantic Heritage of Marxism: A Study of East German Love Poetry, 1987. 203 pp., $34.

Volume 16. Sally A. Winkle, Woman as Bourgeois Ideal: A Study of Sophie von LaRoche's Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim and Goethe's Werther, 1988. 210 pp., $38.95.

Volume 17. Thomas E. Ryan, Hölderlin's Silence, 1988. 366 pp., $44.

Volume 18. Daria Rothe, Rilke and Russia: A Re-evaluation, 1990. 357 pp., $62.50.

Volume 19. Jean Pearson, Kurt Kusenberg: Humorist of the Fantastic, 1992. 183 pp., $40.95.

Volume 20. Andreas Kyriakakis, The Ideal of Heimat in the Works of Hermann Hesse, 1988. 204 pp., $30.40.

Volume 21. Ingrid Winter, Wiederholte Spiegelungen: Funktion und Bedeutung der Verseinlage in Goethes Iphigenie auf Tauris und Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, 1989. 351 pp., $43.

Volume 22. Joachim Warmbold, Germania in Africa: Germany's Colonial Literature, 1989. 305 pp., $42.50.

Volume 23. Ernst Schürer, Franz Jung: Leben und Werk eines Rebellen, 1994. 372 pp., $58.95.

Volume 24. David B. Dickens, Negative Spring: Crisis Imagery in the Works of Brentano, Lenau, Rilke and T.S. Eliot, 1988. 242 pp., $36.50.

Volume 25. Ernest M. Wolf, Magnum Opus: Studies in the Narrative Fiction of Thomas Mann, 1989. 290 pp., $39.95.

Volume 26. Gerhild Brueggemann Rogers, Das Romanwerk von Ingeborg Drewitz, 1989. 256 pp., $37.

Volume 27. Margaret K. Devinney, The Legends of Gertrud von LeFort, 1989. 223 pp., $34.

Volume 28. Jürgen Kleist, Das Dilemma der Kunst, 1990. 209 pp., $41.50.

Volume 29. Frederick Amrine, Goethe in the History of Science, Vol.I: Bibliography, 1776-1949, 1996. 480 pp., $64.95.

Volume 30. Frederick Amrine, Goethe in the History of Science, Vol.II: Bibliography, 1950-1990, 1996. 480 pp., $64.95.

Volume 31.Frederick Amrine, Goethe in the History of Science, Vol.III, 1999.

Volume 32. Christina A. Brantner, Robert Schumann und das Tonkünstlerbild der Romantiker, 1991. 196 pp., $43.95.

Volume 33. Brenda Keiser, Deadly Dishonor: The Duel in the Works of Arthur Schnitzler, 1990. 180 pp., $36.50.

Volume 34. Claus Reschke, Life as a Man: Male-Female Relationships in the Novels of Max Frisch, 1990. 409 pp., $72.50.

Volume 35. Bernward H. Decker, Gewalt und Zärtlichkeit: Einführung in die Millitärbelletristik der DDR 1956-1986, 1990. 266 pp., $47.50.

Volume 36. Kathy Brzovic, Bonaventura's Nachtwachen: A Satirical Novel, 1990. 169 pp., $41.95.

Volume 37. Jozef A Modzelewski, Das Pandämonium der achtziger Jahre: Kurzprosa des Jahres 1983, 1990. 313 pp., $66.95.

Volume 38. Jürgen Froelich, Liebe im Expressionismus: Eine Untersuchung der Lyrik in den Zeitschriften Die Aktion und Der Sturm von 1910-1914, 1990. 214 pp., $39.95.

Volume 39. Richard A. Weber, Light and Color in the Writings of Eduard von Keyserling, 1990. 338 pp., $61.95.

Volume 40. Ingeborg C. Walther, The Theater of Franz Xaver Kroetz, 1990. 276 pp., $47.95.

Volume 41. Ralph W. Buechler, Science, Satire and Wit: The Essays of C.G. Lichtenberg, 1990. 311 pp., $52.95.

Volume 42. Peter J. Schroeck, Character Transition in the Writings of Hans Erich Nossack, 1992. 176 pp., $38.95.

Volume 43. William Grange, Partnership in the German Theater: Zuckmayer and Hilpert, 1925-1961, 1991. 241 pp., $45.95.

Volume 44. Mary Rhiel, Re-Viewing Kleist: The Discursive Construction of Authorial Subjectivity in West German Kleist Films, 1991. 163 pp., $37.95.

Volume 45. Hülya Ünlü, Form, Gehalt und Symbolik des orientalischen Ghasels in der deutschen Dichtung, 1992. 371 pp., $54.95.

Volume 46. Russell P. Christensen, The Surgence of the Imaginary: Charting Male Subjectivity in Late-Weimar Texts, 1996.

Volume 47. Klaus-Jürgen Roehm, Polyphonie und Improvisation: Zur offenen Form in Günther Grass' Die Rättin, 1992. 185 pp., $39.95.

Volume 48. Kevin G. Kennedy, Der junge Goethe in der Tradition des Petrarkismus, 1995. 129 pp., $38.95.

Volume 49. Biruta Cap, ed. Thomas Mann and Felix Bertaux: Correspondence 1923-1948, 1994. 216 pp., $49.95.

Volume 50. Ilse Rose Warg, "Doch ich krümm mich um alles, was lebt". Wolfdietrich Schnurres lyrisches Schaffen, 1993. 221 pp., $47.95.

Volume 51. Muriel W. Stiffler, The German Ghost Story as Genre, 1993. 166 pp., $39.95.

Volume 52. Roger F. Cook, The Demise of the Author: Autonomy and the German Writer, 1770-1848, 1993. 229 pp., $46.95.

Volume 53. Gisela Moffit, Bonds and Bondage: Daughter-Father Relationships in the Father Memoirs of German-Speaking Women Writers of the 1970s, 1993. 284 pp., $56.95.

Volume 54. Amy Kepple Strawser, Imaging the Body in Contemporary Women's Poetry: Helga Novak, Ursula Krechel, Carolyn Forche, Nikki Giovanni, 1998.

Volume 55. Margo Bokser, Sechs Stücke nach Stücken. Zu den Bearbeitungen von Peter Hacks, 1994. 209 pp., $46.95.

Volume 56. Calvin N. Jones, Negation and Utopia: The German Volksstück from Raimund to Kroetz, 1993. 299 pp., $52.95.

Volume 57. Alan J. Swensen, Gods, Angels and Narrators: The Metaphyics of Narrative in Thomas Mann's Joseph und seine Brüder, 1994. 149 pp., $35.95.

Volume 58. Karl-Heinz Finken, Die Wahrheit der Literatur. Studien zur Literaturtheorie des 18. Jahrhunderts, 1993. 209 pp., $39.95.

Volume 59. Marina Foschi-Albert, Über Friedrich Schlegels Theorie des Witzes und sein Roman Lucinde, 1995. 172 pp., $42.95.

Volume 60. Liselotte Dieckmann, ed. and trans., Correspondence Between Goethe and Schiller, 1794-1805, 1994. 304 pp., $48.95.

Volume 61. Timothy C. Torno, Finding Time: Reading for Temporality in Heidegger and Hölderlin, 1995. 215 pp., $45.95.

Volume 62. Steven N. Fuller, Adolf Bartels and the Institutions of Literary Extremism in Germany, 1871-1945, 1996. 272 pp., $32.95.

Volume 63. Cordelia Stroinigg, A Reinterpretation of Sudermann's Frau Sorge: Jugendstil, Archetype, Fairy Tale, 1995. 188 pp., $44.95.

Volume 64. Jean H. Leventhal, Musical Citation in German Narratives from Theodor Fontane to Martin Walser, 1995. 260 pp., $46.95.

Volume 65. Peter D. Luborsky, Goethe's Scientific Language in Prose and Poetry, 1999.

Volume 66. Cordula Drossel Brown, Zeit und Zeiterfahrung in der deutschsprachigen Lyrik der 50er Jahre. Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Ingeborg Bachmann und Christine Lavant, 1995. 172 pp., $44.95.

Volume 67. Marianne and Martin Löschmann, Einander verstehen. Ein deutsches literarisches Lesebuch, 1997. 323 pp., $29.95.

Volume 68. Caroline Kreide, Lou Andreas-Salome: Feministin oder Antifeministin? Eine Standortsbestimmung zur Wilhelminischen Frauenbewegung, 1996. 145 pp., $38.95.

Volume 69. Fredric Steussy, Eighteenth-Century German Autobiography: The Emergence of Individuality, 1996. 231 pp., $46.95.

Volume 70. Aminia M. Brueggemann, Chronotopos Amerika in Werken von Max Frisch, Peter Handke, Günter Kunert und Martin Walser, 1996. 244 pp., $47.95.

Volume 71. Norgard Klages, Look Back in Anger: Parent-Child Relationships in Women's Autobiographical Writings of the 1970's and 1980's, 1995. 165 pp., $42.95,

Volume 72. Romey Sabalius, Die Romane Hugo Loetschers im Spannungsfeld von Fremde und Vertrautheit, 1995. 215 pp., $45.95.

Volume 73. Bianca Rosenthal, Pathways to Paul Celan: A History of Critical Responses as a Chorus of Discordant Voices, 1995. 256 pp., $47.95.

Volume 74. Lilian Ramos, Peter Rosegger: Poet and Pedagogue, 1999.

Volume 75. Sandra L. Singer, Free Soul, Free Woman? A Study of Selected Fictional Works by Hedwig Dohm, Isolde Kurz and Helene Böhlau, 1995. 177 pp., $41.95.

Volume 76. Inge B. O'Regan, Self and Existence: J.M.R. Lenz's Subjective Point of View, 1997. 168 pp., $39.95.

Volume 77. Elke Matijevich, The German Zeitroman of the late Weimar Republic, 1995. 197 pp., $44.95.

Volume 78. Vera B. Profit, Menschlich. Gespräche mit Karl Krolow, 1996. 154 pp., $39.95.

Volume 79. Ernst Schürer, The Berlin Wall: Representation and Perspectives, 1996. 388 pp., $59.95.

Volume 80. Frank Schlossbauer, Literatur als Gegenwelt. Studien zur Komik und Vitalkomik am Beispiel von Fischarts Geschichtklitterung und Lessings Nathan der Weise, 1998. 304 pp., $52.95.

Volume 81. Mary Horwich, The Theme of Survival in Grimmelshausen's Der abentheuerliche Simplicissimus teutsch and Brecht's Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder, 1997. 160 pp., $38.95.

Volume 82. Catherine O'Brien, Women's Fictional Responses to the First World War, 1997. 216 pp., $44.95.

Volume 83. Heather I. Sullivan, The Intercontextuality of Self and Nature in Ludwig Tieck's Early Works, 1997. 224 pp., $45.95.

Volume 84. Antoinette T. Delaney, Metaphors in Grass' Blechtrommel, 1999.

Volume 85. Jean E. Wotschke, From the Homefires to the Battlefield: Mothers in German Expressionist Drama, 1997. 230 pp., $46.95.

Volume 86. Ellen M. Nagy, Women in Germanics, 1850-1950, 1998. 186 pp., $43.95.

Volume 87. Mary R. Strand, I/You: Paradoxical Constructions of Self and Other in Early German Romanticism, 1998. 130 pp., $36.95.

Volume 88. Hildegard F. Glass, Future Cities in Wilhelminian Utopian Literature, 1998. 198 pp., $44.95.

Volume 89. Irene B. Compton, Kritik des Kritikers: Böll's Ansichten eines Clowns und Kleists "Marionettentheater", 1998. 200 pp., $42.95.

Volume 90. Heide Witthöft, Von Angesicht zu Angesicht: Literarische Spiegelszenen, 1998. 224 pp., $45.95.

Volume 91. Peter J. Yang, Theater ist Theater: Ein Vergleich der Kreidekreisstücke Bertolt Brechts und Li Xingdaos, 1998. 168 pp., $38.95.

Volume 92. Hartmut Heep, Unreading Rilke: Unorthodox Approaches to a Cultural Myth, 2001. 206 pp., $53.95.

Volume 93. Wendy Wagner, Georg Büchner's Religionsunterricht Darmstadt, 1821-1831, 2000. 304 pp., $61.95

Volume 94. Kevin F. Yee, Aesthetic Homosociality in Wackenroder and Tieck, 2000. 185 pp., $46.95.

Volume 95. Gary Schmidt, The Nazi Abduction of Ganymede: Representations of Male Homosexuality in Postwar German Literature, 2003. 307 pp., $64.95.

Volume 96. Susan Ray, Beyond Nihilism: Gottfried Benn's Postmodernist Poetics, 2003. 205 pp., $47.95.

Volume 97. W. Scott Hoerle, Hans Friedrich Blunck: Poet and Nazi Collaborator, 1888-1961, 2003. 271 pp., $52.95.

Volume 98. Olivia G. Gabor, The Stage as Spielraum Gottes, 2006. 254 pp., $49.95.

Volume 99. Jared Poley, Decolonization in Germany: Weimar Narratives of Colonial Loss in Foreign Occupation, 2005. 281 pp., $54.95.

Volume 100. Marc Falkenberg, Rethinking the Uncanny in Hoffmann and Tieck, 2005. 258 pp., $50.95.

Volume 101. Erica M. Nelson, Reading Rilke's Orphic Identity, 2005. 270 pp., $52.95.

Volume 102. Grant Henley, Cultural Confessionalism: Literary Resistance and the Bekennende Kirche, 2007. 200 pp., $53.95.

Volume 103. Bennett Irving Enowitch, Eros and Thanatos: A Psycho-Literary Investigation of Walter Vogt's Life and Works, 2005. 142 pp., $40.95.

Volume 104. Andrea Dortmann, Winter Facets: Traces and Tropes of the Cold, 2007. 228 pp., $61.95.

Volume 105. Dirk Wendtorf, Adoleszente Wehrmachtssoldaten in der Nachkriegsjugendliteratur: Opfer oder Täter? Autobiografische Erklärungsansätze zur Motivation adoleszanter Soldaten, 2006. 216 pp., $47.95.

Volume 106. Martin Travers, The Poetry of Gottfried Benn: Text and Selfhood, 2007. 428 pp., $91.95.

Volume 107. William Crooke, Mysticism as Modernity: Nationalism and the Irrational in Hermann Hesse, Robert Musil and Max Frisch, 2008. 175 pp., $53.95.

Volume 108. Michael D. Richardson, Revolutionary Theater and the Classical Heritage: Inheritance and Appropriation from Weimar to the GDR, 2007. 257 pp., $59.95.

Volume 109. Forthcoming.

Volume 110. Nicole Shea, The Politics of Prostitution in Berlin Alexanderplatz, 2007. 207 pp., $55.95.

Volume 111. David L. Tingey, Jr., Seeing Jaakob: The Poetics of Visuality in Thomas Mann’s Die Geschichten Jaakobs. 2010. 308 pp., $68.95.


Persons wishing to have a manuscript considered for inclusion in the Studies in Modern German Literature should submit a letter of inquiry with an abstract of the manuscript to the general editor:

Professor Peter D.G. Brown
Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures
State University of New York
600 Hawk Drive
New Paltz, NY 12561-2440
E-mail: brownp@newpaltz.edu

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