Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture
| Author | : John Sandford |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 1258 |
| Release | : 2013-04-03 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 1136816100 |
With more than 1,100 entries written by an international group of over 150 contributors, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture brings together myriad strands of social, political and cultural life in the post-1945 German-speaking world. With a unique structure and format, an inclusive treatment of the concept of culture, and coverage of East, West and post-unification Germany, as well as Austria and Switzerland, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture is the first reference work of its kind. Containing longer overviews of up to 2,000 words, as well as shorter factual entries, cross-referencing to other relevant articles, useful further reading suggestions and extensive indexing, this highly useable volume provides the scholar, teacher, student or non-specialist with an astonishing breadth and depth of information.
Medieval Germany
| Author | : John M. Jeep |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 958 |
| Release | : 2003-12-16 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 1135575061 |
This A-Z encyclopedia covers the Middle Ages in Germany. It offers the most recent scholarship available, while also providing details on the daily life of medieval Germans.
Pennsylvania Germans
| Author | : Simon J. Bronner |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 590 |
| Release | : 2017-02-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1421421380 |
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Pennsylvania German Studies -- PART 1 HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY -- 1. The Old World Background -- 2. To the New World: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 3. Communities and Identities: Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries -- PART 2 CULTURE AND SOCIETY -- 4. The Pennsylvania German Language -- 5. Language Use among Anabaptist Groups -- 6. Religion -- 7. The Amish -- 8. Literature -- 9. Agriculture and Industries -- 10. Architecture and Cultural Landscapes -- 11. Furniture and Decorative Arts -- 12. Fraktur and Visual Culture -- 13. Textiles -- 14. Food and Cooking -- 15. Medicine -- 16. Folklore and Folklife -- 17. Education -- 18. Heritage and Tourism -- 19. Popular Culture and Media -- References -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Color plates follow page
Encyclopedia of German Resistance to the Nazi Movement
| Author | : Wolfgang Benz |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Anti-Nazi movement |
| ISBN | : |
The Cambridge History of German Literature
| Author | : Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 632 |
| Release | : 2000-06-12 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780521785730 |
This is the first book to describe German literary history up to the unification of Germany in 1990. It takes a fresh look at the main authors and movements, and also asks what Germans in a given period were actually reading and writing, what they would have seen at the local theatre or found in the local lending library; it includes, for example, discussions of literature in Latin as well as in German, eighteenth-century letters and popular novels, Nazi literature and radio plays, and modern Swiss and Austrian literature. A new prominence is given to writing by women. Contributors, all leading scholars in their field, have re-examined standard judgements in writing a history for our own times. The book is designed for the general reader as well as the advanced student: titles and quotations are translated, and there is a comprehensive bibliography.
Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L
| Author | : O. Classe |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 930 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Authors |
| ISBN | : 9781884964367 |
Historical Dictionary of Postwar German Literature
| Author | : William Grange |
| Publisher | : Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Austrian literature |
| ISBN | : 9780810859654 |
Historical Dictionary of Postwar German Literature is devoted to one of the most intriguing bodies of modern literature, that produced in the German language, whether from Germany, Austria, Switzerland or writers using German in other countries. The linguistic consanguinity of these locales notwithstanding, there are considerable variations in literary tenor and approach within each of them. This volume covers an extensive period of time, beginning in 1945 at what was called "zero hour" for German literature and proceeds through the remainder of the 20th century, concluding in 2008.
