German Literature Books

New and Published Books

1. Fundamental Concepts of Children’s Literature Research

   Literary and Sociological Approaches

   By Hans-Heino Ewers

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   In this book, Ewers provides students and professors with a new system of categorization for a differentiated description of children’s literature. In the early 1970s, Swedish children’s literature scholar Göte Kingberg worked to establish a system of scientific terminology for international use,...

   Published March 1st 2012 by Routledge
2. Representing the Holocaust in Children's Literature

   By Lydia Kokkola

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge
3. German Romanticism and Science

   The Procreative Poetics of Goethe, Novalis, and Ritter

   By Jocelyn Holland

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   Situated at the intersection of literature and science, Holland's study draws upon a diverse corpus of literary and scientific texts which testify to a cultural fascination with procreation around 1800. Through readings which range from Goethe’s writing on metamorphosis to Novalis’s aphorisms and...

   Published April 1st 2009 by Routledge
4. Selected Prose of Paul Celan

   By Paul Celan

   Series: Fyfield Books

   Published March 27th 2003 by Routledge
5. Walther von der Vogelweide

   The Single-Stanza Lyrics

   Edited by Frederick Goldin

   Series: Routledge Medieval Texts

   Published December 19th 2002 by Routledge
6. Complete Fairy Tales

   2nd Edition

   By Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

   Series: Routledge Classics

   The tale of 'Cinderella' is told wherever stories are still read aloud and everyone is familiar with 'Rapunzel' and 'The Golden Goose', but who has heard all the wonderful stories collected by the Brothers Grimm? Well, here's your chance, for within these covers you will find every one of their 210...

   Published June 12th 2002 by Routledge
7. Sonnets to Orpheus

   with Letters to a Young Poet

   By Rainer Maria Rilke

   Series: Fyfield Books

   Published April 11th 2002 by Routledge
8. The Nibelungen Tradition

   An Encyclopedia

   Edited by Winder McConnell, Werner Wunderlich, Frank Gentry, Ulrich Mueller

   Within the English-speaking world, no work of the German High Middle Ages is better known than the Nibelungenlied, which has stirred the imagination of artists and readers far beyond its land of origin. Its international influence extends from literature to music, art, film, politics and propaganda...

   Published December 20th 2001 by Routledge
9. Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture

   Edited by John Sandford

   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...

   Published September 5th 2001 by Routledge
10. Till Eulenspiegel

    His Adventures, 4th Edition

    By Anonymous

    A classic fable of German literature, Till Eulenspiegel is a cheerfully scatological collection of 95 loosely related vignettes depicting the life and times of a famous roving jester....

    Published August 7th 2001 by Routledge